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Survey on utility of yoga as an alternative therapy for occupational hazards among dental practioners
BACKGROUND: The therapeutic potential of yoga are often considered complementary to various forms of medical practice. Very few studies have evaluated the effects of yoga in the treatment of occupational hazards among dentists. Hence, this cross-sectional study was designed to evaluate the adoption...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367027/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25810653 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.149114 |
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author | Ramamoorthy, Ananthalakshmi Jeevakarunyam, Sathiya Jeeva Janardhanan, Sunitha Jeddy, Nadeem Vasan, Srikaanth Aranmanai Raja, Arundayanadhi Ikram, Parvez |
author_facet | Ramamoorthy, Ananthalakshmi Jeevakarunyam, Sathiya Jeeva Janardhanan, Sunitha Jeddy, Nadeem Vasan, Srikaanth Aranmanai Raja, Arundayanadhi Ikram, Parvez |
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description | BACKGROUND: The therapeutic potential of yoga are often considered complementary to various forms of medical practice. Very few studies have evaluated the effects of yoga in the treatment of occupational hazards among dentists. Hence, this cross-sectional study was designed to evaluate the adoption of yoga techinques as an alternative therapy in treatment of physical and psychological occupational hazards among dental general practitioners in Chennai, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A validated closed-ended questionnaire was circulated to 500 dental general practitioners in Chennai, India and we received 394 completed questionnaires. The questionnaire documented demographic data, occupational hazards and the type of treatment taken for the hazards. RESULTS: Musculoskeletal pain with stress (47%) was the most common occupational hazard reported, followed by only stress (27.4%), and only musculoskeletal pain (25.6%). Only 9.6% of practitioners adopted yoga as an alternative treatment for these occupational hazards. Interestingly, majority (46.4%) of them did exercise, gym, massage, walking and heard music. Surprisingly, 43.9% did not take any measures to treat these occupational hazards. However 53.3% of the dentists who did not consider yoga as an alternative therapy, stated lack of time as a reason for not practicing yoga while 17.6% of them don’t believe yoga as a therapy. CONCLUSION: Despite musculoskeletal pain and stress being the most common occupational hazard prevalent among dentists, over 50% of the subjects surveyed didn’t seek any measure to treat these occupational hazards and only 10% of them practiced yoga as the alternative therapy. |
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spelling | pubmed-43670272015-03-25 Survey on utility of yoga as an alternative therapy for occupational hazards among dental practioners Ramamoorthy, Ananthalakshmi Jeevakarunyam, Sathiya Jeeva Janardhanan, Sunitha Jeddy, Nadeem Vasan, Srikaanth Aranmanai Raja, Arundayanadhi Ikram, Parvez J Nat Sci Biol Med Research Article BACKGROUND: The therapeutic potential of yoga are often considered complementary to various forms of medical practice. Very few studies have evaluated the effects of yoga in the treatment of occupational hazards among dentists. Hence, this cross-sectional study was designed to evaluate the adoption of yoga techinques as an alternative therapy in treatment of physical and psychological occupational hazards among dental general practitioners in Chennai, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A validated closed-ended questionnaire was circulated to 500 dental general practitioners in Chennai, India and we received 394 completed questionnaires. The questionnaire documented demographic data, occupational hazards and the type of treatment taken for the hazards. RESULTS: Musculoskeletal pain with stress (47%) was the most common occupational hazard reported, followed by only stress (27.4%), and only musculoskeletal pain (25.6%). Only 9.6% of practitioners adopted yoga as an alternative treatment for these occupational hazards. Interestingly, majority (46.4%) of them did exercise, gym, massage, walking and heard music. Surprisingly, 43.9% did not take any measures to treat these occupational hazards. However 53.3% of the dentists who did not consider yoga as an alternative therapy, stated lack of time as a reason for not practicing yoga while 17.6% of them don’t believe yoga as a therapy. CONCLUSION: Despite musculoskeletal pain and stress being the most common occupational hazard prevalent among dentists, over 50% of the subjects surveyed didn’t seek any measure to treat these occupational hazards and only 10% of them practiced yoga as the alternative therapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4367027/ /pubmed/25810653 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.149114 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ramamoorthy, Ananthalakshmi Jeevakarunyam, Sathiya Jeeva Janardhanan, Sunitha Jeddy, Nadeem Vasan, Srikaanth Aranmanai Raja, Arundayanadhi Ikram, Parvez Survey on utility of yoga as an alternative therapy for occupational hazards among dental practioners |
title | Survey on utility of yoga as an alternative therapy for occupational hazards among dental practioners |
title_full | Survey on utility of yoga as an alternative therapy for occupational hazards among dental practioners |
title_fullStr | Survey on utility of yoga as an alternative therapy for occupational hazards among dental practioners |
title_full_unstemmed | Survey on utility of yoga as an alternative therapy for occupational hazards among dental practioners |
title_short | Survey on utility of yoga as an alternative therapy for occupational hazards among dental practioners |
title_sort | survey on utility of yoga as an alternative therapy for occupational hazards among dental practioners |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367027/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25810653 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.149114 |
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