Open AccessHome-Based yoga program for the patients suffering from malignant lymphoma during chemotherapy: A feasibility study
Author(s) -
Gurpreet Kaur,
Gaurav Prakash,
Pankaj Malhotra,
Sandhya Ghai,
Sukhpal Kaur,
Meenakshi Singh,
Kulbeer Kaur
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of yoga/international journal of yoga
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2231-2714
pISSN - 0973-6131
DOI - 10.4103/ijoy.ijoy_17_18
Subject(s) - medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , anxiety , lymphoma , chemotherapy , adverse effect , neutropenia , depression (economics) , physical therapy , psychiatry , nursing , economics , macroeconomics
Yoga is proven beneficial in improving quality of life among breast cancer survivors receiving chemotherapy, but its effectiveness in lymphoma patients needs to be explored. As chemotherapy-induced neutropenia is very common among lymphoma patients, they are much prone to infections from the environment. Furthermore, trained yoga instructors are not available in every setting, so there is a need to develop home-based yoga program modules for lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy.