Table 1.
Styles of Yoga.
| West [USA, Europe, Australia, Brazil, and Turkey] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoga style | Back pain | Other pain | CVD | Cancer | Total | Percentage |
| Ashtanga Vinyasa | Cade 2010 | 1 | 4% | |||
| Classical | Ulger 2010 | 1 | 4% | |||
| Hatha | Galantino 2004 | Pullen 2008 | Moadal 2007 | 6 | 21% | |
| Pullen 2010 | ||||||
| Saper 2009 | van Montfrans 1990 | |||||
| Iyengar | Jacobs 2004 | Evans 2011 (IBS) | Banasik 2011 | 8 | 29% | |
| Evans 2011 (rheumatoid arthritis) | ||||||
| Williams 2005 | Garfinkel 1998 (carpal tunnel) | |||||
| Williams 2009 | Kuttner 2007 (IBS) | |||||
| Iyengar-inspired | Culos-Reed 2006 | 2 | 7% | |||
| Galantino 2012 | ||||||
| Multiple perspectives | Cox 2010 | 2 | 7% | |||
| Tilbrook 2011 | ||||||
| Not stated | da Silva 2007 (fibromyalgia) | Cheema 2011 | 2 | 7% | ||
| Tibetan | Cohen 2004 | 1 | 4% | |||
| Viniyoga | Sherman 2005 | 2 | 7% | |||
| Sherman 2011 | ||||||
| Yoga in daily life | Kovacic 2011 | 1 | 4% | |||
| Yoga of awareness (Kripalu influenced) | Carson 2011 (fibromyalgia) | Carson 2009 | 2 | 7% | ||
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| Asia [India, Thailand] | ||||||
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| Comprehensive, no “stylistic details” | Tekur 2008 | John 2007 (migraine) | Banerjee 2007 | 6 | 40% | |
| Raghavendra 2007 | ||||||
| Rao 2008 | ||||||
| Vadiraja 2009 | ||||||
| Kriya | Agte 2011 | 1 | 7% | |||
| Not stated | Telles 2009 (musculoskeletal hand discomfort) | Datey 1969 | 8 | 53% | ||
| McCaffrey 2005 | ||||||
| Murthy 2011 | ||||||
| Pal 2011 | ||||||
| Patel 1976 | ||||||
| Selvamurthy 1998 | ||||||
| Yogendra 2004 | ||||||
| Sum | 15 | 100% | ||||
*Specific styles of yoga or specific programs.