Yoga Adjunct for Scleroderma

"Gentle Yoga (GY) postures can be done while seated on a chair (sometimes called Chair Yoga) and have been shown to benefit people with symptoms associated with cancer.12 However, Yoga is under-studied in the area of scleroderma. While most traditional Yoga postures can be practiced by anyone, people with scleroderma often have limited physical movement and can be prone to injury. Gentle Yoga postures are physically much easier to do than traditional Yoga and, thus, may be more accessible for SSc patients with musculoskeletal and other impairments. Gentle Yoga postures that are done while seated on a chair also combine easily with YB, but little is known about the specific benefits of the GY+YB combination (GYYB). Further study is needed to determine whether GYYB may be an effective strategy for improving QoL in SSc patients. The Yoga intervention to be used in this study specifically involves GY done while seated in combination with YB."