| The answer lies in a specially adapted form of yoga | | | | research in major British teaching hospitals. The idea is |
| known as yoga therapy. This is gentler and easier | | | | to analyze this ancient discipline by modern clinical |
| than standard yoga, and takes into account the | | | | research methods, to discover exactly how and why |
| stiffness and immobility of arthritic joints. Yoga | | | | it works, and how it can best be adapted to give |
| therapy for arthritis has been available for more than | | | | maximum relief for intractable conditions. |
| forty years in the West, but only at specialized | | | | Based at the royal homeopathic hospital in London, |
| alternative centers. For the past few years, | | | | the yoga therapy center offers a specialized eight |
| however, the yoga biomedical trust has been | | | | week course designed for sufferers of all forms of |
| researching and developing yoga for use by people | | | | arthritis. Yoga therapy is very different from ordinary |
| with chronic or serious complaints that continue to | | | | yoga, as the therapy has been adapted and modified |
| baffle the medical profession. | | | | for arthritis sufferers. A distinction is made between |
| It was after the doctor's own asthma was cured by | | | | osteoarthritis, which afflicts mainly older people and is |
| practicing panorama that he decided to dedicate his | | | | caused by wear and tear on the joints, and |
| life to researching the therapeutic benefits of | | | | rheumatoid arthritis, which affects the whole body |
| different forms of yoga. He and his team work | | | | and can result in eye and heart problems as well as |
| closely with orthodox doctors and carry out clinical | | | | stiff, painful, inflamed joints. |