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Current Research: Integrative Medicine
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October 16-17, 2017 Chicago, USA
Yoga and Physiotherapy Congress
Yoga and Physiotherapy 2017
Notes:
Sudhanva Char
Life University, USA
What are its capabilities?
Yoga is the science of perfect well-being. Yoga resonates with robust physical, mental and emotional health. Both
as a cure and as a prophylactic Yoga helps cure numerous illnesses and overcome suffering, besides shielding
from germs and even genetic typos. It has the key to wellness and happiness as well as to the ubiquitous opioid
epidemic costing about $150 billion per annum just on account of lives lost, not counting the Pareto dead-weight
loss due to inefficient use of resources. Yoga promotes homeostasis and gives us the wisdom to regard the body as a
hologram of the universe, in a realistic practical way. It teaches how one can avoid pressing into service the autonomic
sympathetic nervous system to meet stressful situations and instead make use of the parasympathetic nervous system
in the subcortical brain. As a physical and mental exercise that promotes wellness, it calls for minimal non-competitive
effort and low calorie consumption instead of maximum effort and high calorie consumption, as well as competitive
endeavor of traditional exercise. Yoga has slow but dynamic movements whereas other exercises call for forceful and
tense movements that may tear ligaments and injure muscles. Yoga improves cardio-vascular efficiency as well as
alpha brain waves, taking the practioner to the next higher level of mindfulness. Yoga is hailed as future medicine,
and yet lends itself as alternative and complementary therapy. By making stress management easy it changes the
toxic ambiance and circumstances conducive to cancer and numerous ailments related to the heart, endocrine system,
and kidneys. Today there is ample clinical evidence supporting these claims, besides several millennia of anecdotal
evidence. It is high time that yoga is brought to the high table of current discussion of health-related affairs both to
improve effectiveness of treatment as well to realize cost-effectiveness.
Biography
Sudhanva Char Ph.d. has been on the Faculty of Life University for over two decades. He teaches Biostatistics. Prof. Char is a Certified Yoga Teacher. Over the
past 30 years he has enabled hundreds attain robust physical and mental health and overcome numerous ailments. Over a hundred of his research papers have
been published in peer-reviewed journals.