Alternative Therapy: Yoga in Reduced Symptoms and

Treatment of Child Asperger Syndrome

Kyle J. Norton

Yoga my have a strong implication in reduced symptoms and treatment

of Asperger syndrome, some scientists suggested.

Yoga, the ancient practical technique for harmonized external and internal body
well being, through breath control, meditation, bodily movement and
gesture..... has been well known for people in Western world and some parts in
Asia due to health benefits reported by various respectable institutes' research
and supported by health advocates.

Asperger syndrome, is neuro condition characterized by poor social and

communication skills. patients may talk a lot, but fail to focus and keep up with
the subject and also have a very narrow interest as they may talk about only one
single subject for months or years.

Some children with Asperger syndrome may also engage in repetitive

behaviour such as flagging hand.

In the study of a 7-year-old boy with Apert and Asperger's syndrome attended
8, 45 min multisensory yoga sessions, twice a week, during 4-week camp
conducted by the Texas State University, researchers filed the following result
1. Yoga participated showed a significant improvement in the total score
changes from 19 to 7 for disruptive behaviors.
2. The child after yoga class also displayed a changed from showing
progression in ability to stay on task of subjects, observed by Sparks Target
Behavior Checklist scores
3. Yoga Pose Rating Scale examined by demonstrated the transformation in
total scores also improved from 80 = emerging to 115 = consistency in pose
performance.

Researchers after taking into account of other confounders indicated that the
improvement of behavior and subjects focused may be attributed to the positive
development in expressive emotions, social engagement, and decline in looking
around attitude.
Furthermore, conversation with child parents also revealed that child has shown
a strong improvement of ability to self-regulate stress using lion's breath and
super brain.

Dr. Scroggins ML, the lead author said, "These findings indicate an
improvement in behaviors that influenced the physical performance, emotional
expression, and social interaction after yoga training for this child".

In further differentiation of the effect of yoga in children with brain

development disorders, researchers at the joint study lead by the Oregon Health
and Science University launched a study to investigate whether yoga mind-
body therapies have any implication on symptoms of Social and
communication skills and repetitive behavior in children with autism by
reviewing literature published on data base of PubMed, PsychInfo, and Scopus,
showed that all qualified studies expressed an improvement of mind-body
therapies in associated outcomes of behavior, psychological symptoms, and
quality of life.

In fact, children with disruptive or inappropriate behaviors probably is a result

of psychological effects in induced inappropriate sensory input caused by
anxiety, frustration and difficult emotional expression.

Yoga physical postures, according to instructors provide a valuably integrated

tool to reduce anxiety and support sensory regulation which may improve
emotional and behavioral regulation.

Further more, the physical posture learned from yoga along with breathing can
calm and relax the nervous system in controlled impulsive behaviors and
motion.

Some yoga instructors also suggested that the calming and relaxing effect by
yoga exercise in physical posture along with breathing strategy may also
improve concentration though calming the mind of the children with Asperger
syndrome and getting rid of distracting thoughts and, thus improving
concentration

Additionally, long term yoga regular practice also reduced stress, anxiety and
tension, thus promoting relaxation and calmness which have been found to
have strong impact in concentration, reduced impulsive and inappropriate
behaviors and improved emotional expression.
In a distant further, the strong implication of regular yoga practice also
improved the brain performance by keeping the mind active and sharp,
particularly in resolved daily problems.

Although all studies were conducted in a small same size and uncontrollable
design, they would benefit from larger randomized controlled trials.

The findings indicated that yoga taught by experts may be considered as

secondary therapeutic treatment used conjunction with standard therapy in
reduced system expression and treatment of Asperger syndrome.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers
have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine
articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate
GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ
by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington
Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as
international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.
Sources
(1) Effects of multisensory yoga on behavior in a male child with Apert and
Asperger syndrome by Scroggins ML1, Litchke LG2, Liu T2.(PubMed)
(2) Autism and Mind-Body Therapies: A Systematic Review by Hourston S1,2,
Atchley R1.(PubMed)
(3) Effects of multisensory yoga on behavior in a male child with Apert and
Asperger syndrome by Michaela L Scroggins, Lyn G Litchke,1 and Ting
Liu1(PMC)