Yoga as A Treatment For Infertility

nd: The use of complementary alternative medicine (CAM) is becoming incresinglypopular in the world.The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of yoga ontreatment of infertile women or men. Methods: In a systematic survey of the databases uch as Pubmed, Elsevier, Ovid, Clinicalkey, SID, Iranmedex and etc from 2005 to the present, the relevant articles were extracted and analyzed. Results: The findings of several researches revealed that yoga can provide stress management leading to contrl of pain, anxiety, stress and depression with beneficial effects on infertility and improved fetal outcomes. Also, yoga increased the ART success rate by improving the physiological and psychological indexes of both men and women. By yoga, ovulation occurred after 3 months. A period of 12 weeks of yoga improved BMI, percentage of body fat and lateral abdominal skin fold. Conclusion: The results showed that yoga can help couples overcome infertility and increase the ART success rate by improving physiological and psychological indexes of both men and women

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Complementary Medicine ، Infertility ، Yoga