Previous studies have found yoga as effective as other treatments for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms. This study tested whether virtually delivered yoga improved IBS symptoms. Seventy-nine patients were randomized to either a form of hatha yoga or no yoga, with a 60-minute virtual online class that included 3 to 7 participants and encouragement for daily practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The primary endpoint measure was at least a 50-point decrease in the IBS-Symptom Severity Scale (IBS-SSS) after intervention. The IBS-SSS ranges from 0 to 500, and a score of 300 or higher is considered severe IBS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the patients lacked major depression and serious mental illness and had the ability to exercise. The mean age of the enrolled patients was 45.4 years, 92.4% were women, 81% percent were Caucasian, and the mean IBS diagnosis duration was 11.5 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The IBS-SSS decreased from 255 to 201 in the yoga group (P<\/em>=.028) and from 236 to 214 in the control group (P<\/em>=.277). Mean overall practice minutes in the responders who did yoga was 1214 minutes versus 595 minutes in the nonresponders. Thus, practicing an additional 78 minutes per week was associated with a 5 times greater chance of responding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The attrition rate was 29% in the treatment group, and 7 of 11 participants in the treatment group did not start the program. In the treatment group, 52% of patients agreed they would strongly recommend the program to other patients with IBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Previous studies have found yoga as effective as other treatments for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms. This study tested whether virtually delivered yoga improved IBS symptoms. Seventy-nine patients were randomized to either a form of hatha yoga or no yoga, with a 60-minute virtual online class that included 3 to 7 participants and encouragement for … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1769],"tags":[2058,1883,3522,3521,2969,3520],"class_list":["post-13430","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-asge-kolon","tag-colon-2","tag-ibs","tag-ibs-sss","tag-ibs-symptom-severity-scale","tag-irritable-bowel-syndrome","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/13430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}