Talk:Trauma-sensitive yoga

Evidence
At first blush, this looks like a well-written article: it's well-formatted, written in decent English, has a decent list of citations, and has inline references for the claims made. As a student contribution, it is certainly a good effort.

As a medical article, however, I'm not so sure. It is long on what has been attempted and how people are instructed to be gentle, and so forth, and rather short on evidence that it actually helps. Individual primary research papers (such as preliminary studies) are used to support claims. Further, the kinds of paper cited include some that are close to speculative: "TSY addresses the need for a trauma-informed yoga practice that could identify and mitigate potentially triggering environmental and physiological circumstances"; the paper cited describes itself as "a qualitative examination", i.e. an illustration based on the experiences of a small number of individuals. This is interesting and possibly illuminating, but very far from a randomised clinical trial, let alone a systematic review of a group of such trials. At best, this is suggestive preliminary evidence, which isn't my understanding of WP:MEDRS.

I think the article needs work. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:32, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * A systematic review has been published this year. It found the evidence wobbly, based on unreliable studies. I've added it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:33, 12 September 2019 (UTC)