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Yoga and pain: A mind-body complex system
Deepak Chopra1, Eddie Stern2, William C Bushell3
1The Chopra Foundation, New York, NY, United States.
Frontiers in Pain Research (Lausanne, Switzerland)
|March 13, 2023
Summary
Therapeutic yoga acts as a complex adaptive system, offering unique benefits for pain management. This approach highlights the potential of yoga for systemic, long-term changes in chronic pain treatment.
Area of Science:
- Integrative medicine
- Systems biology
- Behavioral medicine
Background:
- The human body's pain response is a complex adaptive system.
- Therapeutic yoga may also be a complex adaptive system.
- Understanding this interaction could reveal unique therapeutic benefits.
Purpose of the Study:
- To assess yoga's viability as a pain therapy.
- To determine if pain responses and yoga are complex adaptive systems.
- To explore the systemic interaction between yoga and pain.
Main Methods:
- A narrative overview of evidence on pain, yoga, and complex systems.
- Network analysis of associated keywords.
- Mapping functional components of complex systems, pain response, and yoga.
Main Results:
- Yoga demonstrates unique efficacy as a pain therapy.
- Complex systems perspectives are relevant to pain and yoga interventions.
- Network analysis revealed connections between pain and yoga, with complex systems being highly interconnected.
Conclusions:
- Yoga is a complex adaptive system beneficial for pain management.
- Findings support using behavioral medicine for systemic intervention in chronic pain.
- Research should focus on yoga's long-term systemic effects for mind-body topics.
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