Heart rate variability in chronic low back pain patients randomized to yoga or standard care
Shirley Telles, Sachin Kumar Sharma, Ram Kumar Gupta, Abhishek Kumar Bhardwaj & Acharya Balkrishna
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine volume 16, Article number: 279 (2016)
Abstract
Background
Chronic pain can alter the autonomic balance with increased sympathetic activity reflected in altered heart rate variability (HRV). It has been proposed that yoga can be useful to correct the autonomic imbalance in patients with chronic pain who have reduced HRV.