Medical Therapeutic Yoga

In Yoga As Medicine, we perform detailed holistic assessments of each client—evaluating body, mind, spirit and environment—and then craft a personalized yoga program.

More than 50 + medical conditions treated directly and lot more indirectly through our Yoga program.

Health care in a different approach – Come and Experience the POWER behind Living Well.

1.Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse

2. Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer’s, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time. It is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events (short term memory ) loss. As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems with language, disorientation (including easily getting lost), mood swings, loss of motivation, not managing self care, and behavioral issues. As a person’s condition declines, they often withdraw from family and society. Gradually, bodily functions are lost, ultimately leading to death. Although the speed of progression can vary, the typical life expectancy following diagnosis is three to nine years.

3. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND), or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a specific disease which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles.

The start of ALS may be so subtle that the symptoms are overlooked. The earliest symptoms of ALS are muscle weakness or muscle atrophy. Other presenting symptoms include trouble swallowing or breathing, cramping, or stiffness of affected muscles; muscle weakness affecting an arm or a leg; or slurred and nasal speech. The parts of the body affected by early symptoms of ALS depend on which motor neurons in the body are damaged first.

In limb-onset ALS, the first symptoms are in arms or the legs. If the legs are affected first, people may experience awkwardness, tripping, or stumbling when walking or running; this is often marked by walking with a ” dropped foot” which drags gently on the ground. If the arms are affected first, they may experience difficulty with tasks requiring manual dexterity, such as buttoning a shirt, writing, or turning a key in a lock.

In bulbar-onset ALS, the first symptoms are difficulty speaking or swallowing. Speech may become slurred, nasal in character, or quieter. There may be difficulty with swallowing and loss of tongue mobility. A smaller proportion of people experience “respiratory-onset” ALS, where the intercostal muscles that support breathing are affected first.

Over time, people experience increasing difficulty moving, swallowing , and speaking or forming words. Symptoms of upper motor neuron involvement include tight and stiff muscles and exaggerated reflexes (hyperreflexia), including an overactive gag reflex. An abnormal reflex commonly called Babinski’s sign also indicates upper motor neuron damage. Symptoms of lower motor neuron degeneration include muscle weakness and atrophy, muscle cramps, and fleeting twitches of muscles that can be seen under the skin (fasciculations). However, twitching is more of a side effect than a diagnostic symptom; it either occurs after or accompanies weakness and atrophy

4. Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behaviour such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints and rumination. It is the subjectively unpleasant feelings of dread over anticipated events, such as the feeling of imminent death. Anxiety is not the same as fear, which is a response to a real or perceived immediate threat, whereas anxiety involves the expectation of future threat. Anxiety is a feeling of uneasiness and worry, usually generalized and unfocused as an overreaction to a situation that is only subjectively seen as menacing. It is often accompanied by muscular tension, restlessness, fatigue and problems in concentration. Anxiety can be appropriate, but when experienced regularly the individual may suffer from an anxiety disorder.

5. Asthma

6. Atrial Fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation (AF or A-fib) is an abnormal heart rhythm characterized by rapid and irregular beating of the atria. Often it starts as brief periods of abnormal beating which become longer and possibly constant over time. Often episodes have no symptoms. Occasionally there may be heart fainting, lightheadness, shortness of breath or chest pain. The disease is associated with an increased risk of heart failure, dementia and stroke. It is a type of supraventricular tachycardia.

7. Back Pain
8. Balance Problems

A balance disorder is a disturbance that causes an individual to feel unsteady, for example when standing or walking. It may be accompanied by feelings of giddiness, or wooziness, or having a sensation of movement, spinning, or floating. Balance is the result of several body systems working together: the visual system (eyes), vestibular system (ears) and proprioception (the body’s sense of where it is in space). Degeneration or loss of function in any of these systems can lead to balance deficits.

9. Cancer (General)
10. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a medical condition due to compression of the median nerve as it travels through the wrist at the carpal tunnel. The main symptoms are pain, numbness and tingling in the thumb, index finger, middle finger and the thumb side of the ring fingers. Symptoms typically start gradually and during the night. Pain may extend up the arm. Weak grip strength may occur, and after a long period of time the muscles at the base at the thumb may waste away. In more than half of cases, both sides are affected.

Risk factors include obesity, repetitive wrist work, pregnancy and rheumatoid arthritis. There is tentative evidence that hypothyroidism increases the risk

11. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
12. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (e.g. Emphysema)
13. Cognitive Impairment
14. Computer Vision Syndrome
15. Congestive Heart Failure
16. Cystic Fibrosis
17. Depression
18. Diabetes
19. Drug Withdrawal
20. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
21. Eating Disorders
22. Endometriosis
23. Epilepsy
24. Fatigue
25. Fibromyalgia
26. Gait (Walking) Problems
27. Gestational Diabetes
28. Heart Disease
29. Hemorrhoids
30. High Blood Pressure
31. Hypothyroidism
32. Infertility
33. Inflammatory Bowel Disease
34. Insomnia
35. Irritable Bowel Syndrome
36. Kidney Failure
37. Lung Cancer
38. Lymphoma
39. Menopausal (and Perimenopausal) Symptoms
40. Menstrual Disorders
41. Mental Developmental Impairment
42. Metabolic Syndrome
43. Migraine and Tension Headaches
44. Multiple Sclerosis
45. Muscular Dystrophy
46. Neck Pain
47. Obesity/Overweight
48. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
49. Osteoarthritis (Degenerative Arthritis)
50. Pain (Chronic)
51. Panic Disorder
52. Parkinson’s Disease
53. Performance Anxiety
54. Pleural Effusion (Fluid in the Lining of the Lung)
55. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
56. Post Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
57. Post-Heart Attack
58. Post Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
59. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
60. Pregnancy (Normal and Complicated)
61. Pressure Ulcers
62. Psoriasis
63. Pulmonary Hypertension
64. Restless Leg Syndrome
65. Rheumatoid Arthritis
66. Schizophrenia
67. Scoliosis (Curvature of the Spine)
68. Sexual Dysfunction
69. Sexual Trauma
70. Sinusitis
71. Skeletal Muscle Pain Syndrome
72. Smoking Cessation
73. Stress
74. Stroke
75. Total Knee Arthroplasty
76. Traumatic Brain Injury
77. Tuberculosis
78. Urinary Incontinen