IBD: Research Showing Yoga as Effective Complementary Tx 'Would be important to recommend well-trained yoga teacher/therapist who has basic medical knowledge'

It is not uncommon for patients with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis to add complementary treatments to conventional medical therapies to treat IBD. Many of these complementary treatments seem to be promising ways to optimize disease management and improve quality of life. For example, a 2015 pilot study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found that a relaxation response-based mind-body intervention was associated with improvements in disease-specific measures, "trait anxiety," and pain catastrophizing in patients with irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease. Among the mind-body interventions used in the study was yoga, a practice that is -- among other things -- used to relieve stress and ease symptoms of anxiety and depression. https://www.medpagetoday.com/reading-room/aga/lower-gi/66192?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2017-06-23&eun=g721819d0r&pos=2