Is Yoga for PTSD Effective?

According to a 2011 meta-analysis of the research on Yoga and psychiatric disorders entitled “Effectiveness of Yoga Therapy as a Complementary Treatment for Major Psychiatric Disorders: A Meta-Analysis,” Yoga has been found to be both a cost-effective and an extremely useful co-treatment for major psychiatric disorders like PTSD. Traditional treatment of these disorders typically includes pharmaceuticals combined with individual or group therapy. When these treatments do not work or have side effects that lower quality of life, Yoga has been found as an effective way to fill the treatment gap or to speed up the healing process.

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