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Yoga and its significance in physiotherapy
SUDICKÝ, Milan
The bachelor{\crq}s thesis deals with the position and possibilities of wide-ranging use of yoga in modern physiotherapy. Yoga is an integral discipline looking upon humans as a whole. It does not divide them into separate parts, such as body, mind, psyche. In the past few decades yoga established itself in medical sciences and as an effective means of preventing civilization diseases, in rehabilitation and also as an auxiliary method of treating before all psychosomatic disorders. This way yoga has become an integral part of modern medicine. Yoga moves are very relaxed, slow, intentional, actively controlled and coordinated with breathing. As such these moves can be called reeducational, thus rectifying wrong movement patterns. By means of yoga one-sided overstrain of the locomotor apparatus can be set right very well, consequently establishing its well-proportioned load. Moreover, other existing treatment procedures can be supported effectively by establishing psychosomatic balance. The theoretical part of the thesis presents physiological principles of how yoga techniques work and describes the present-day position of yoga in physiotherapy. The thesis aims at showing the possibilities of wide-ranging application of yoga in physiotherapy, mainly for the benefit of influencing posture, breathing pattern, spine and joint mobility and improving the psychic condition of the patients. Qualitative research approach was applied using the following techniques: an interview, an examination by sight, body and posture assessment, the spine mobility examination, the examination of the passive movement range of the hip joint, the STAI questionnaire, and secondary analysis of the data. The study sample comprised three probands who took part in a six-month public yoga course during the research. Conducted examinations result in the fact that yoga exercises lead to regulation of the breathing pattern, to posture improvement and to balancing the psyche of the gymnasts. The thesis points out the fact that applying yoga techniques in physioteraphy to a larger extent can bring new possibilities of treating wrong body posture, solving vertebrogenic troubles and regulating breathing movements. The bachelor{\crq}s thesis can further on be used in clinical work of physiotherapists, but also for the needs of common yoga gymnasts.
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