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@article{204315,
        author = {Ananta and Dr. Ritesh Kumar},
        title = {Yoga for Inclusive Wellness: A Systematic Review on Physical and Psychological Outcomes among Persons with Disabilities},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1991-1994},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=204315},
        abstract = {Yoga has become a holistic mind-body intervention that incorporates the spiritual, psychological, and physical aspects of well-being. Its use has broadened over the past few decades to encompass therapeutic and rehabilitative settings, especially for populations with special needs, in addition to general wellbeing. People with disabilities are a varied and frequently marginalized community that faces substantial obstacles to social engagement, mental health care, and physical exercise.
Yoga is a viable intervention for fostering inclusive wellbeing in this community because of its flexible and non-invasive character. The goal of the current systematic review is to compile the empirical data about the efficacy of yoga therapies in enhancing the physical and psychological outcomes of people with disabilities.
To guarantee methodological rigor and openness, the review was carried out in compliance with PRISMA. A thorough search was conducted for research published between 2015 and 2025 in electronic databases such as PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. 28 research in all, covering a variety of disorders such physical impairments, intellectual disabilities, and sensory deficiencies, satisfied the inclusion criteria. The results show that yoga therapies greatly improve physical characteristics such as muscular strength, flexibility, balance, and functional mobility. Significant psychological advantages were also noted, such as increases in emotional control, self-efficacy, and quality of life, as well as decreases in stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms.
Despite these favorable results, there were several drawbacks, including limited sample numbers, inconsistent intervention regimens, and a dearth of standardized outcome measures. While highlighting the need for additional thorough and extensive research to expand the evidence basis, the study concluded that yoga provides a feasible, affordable, and inclusive strategy to health promotion among people with disabilities.},
        keywords = {Yoga, Wellness, Physical , Psychological},
        month = {June},
        }