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A 2018 systematic review of 12 studies, that had individually found positive effects compared to their control groups, was unable to find strong evidence of benefit from yoga for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, or anxiety following traumatic experiences, and called for more rigorous study design.

When it comes to systematic reviews on Yoga in showing positive results for the treatment of PTSD, while there may not be conclusive or “strong evidence”, the general body of clinical studies show there is “encouraging evidence” or a “medium effect”. This 2017 systematic review of PTSD in post 9/11 veterans who had received mindfulness, mind-body therapy, and yoga found that, “Overall, studies reported significant improvements in PTSD symptoms in participants in these interventions.” Another 2017 systematic review on Yoga for Veterans found a moderate to a “large” size effect improvement in PTSD symptoms. "'Four of the six yoga studies (all but Mitchell et al., 2014 and Reinhardt et al., 2017) found significant between-group effects ranging from moderate to large effect sizes. All reported within-group effects were large. Two studies (Carter et al., 2013; Mitchell et al., 2014) reported that treatment gains were maintained over the 1 to 6 month follow-up period. Taken together, these studies indicate that yoga is an acceptable and feasible intervention that may be associated with PTSD symptom reductions.'"This 2018 systematic review postulates that the more one designs the style of yoga instruction and instructors to that of the needs of the Veterans, the better the results are as a treatment for PTSD, bridging the gap from medium effect to large effect. "This study demonstrates that a trauma-sensitive yoga intervention may be effective for veterans with PTSD symptoms, whether as stand-alone or adjunctive therapy. The impressive decrease in PTSD symptomatology may be due to the tailored military-specific nature of this intervention and the fact that it was led by a veteran of post-9/11 conflicts."Due to these encouraging results researchers want to direct more studies towards the utilization of Yoga for PTSD, depression and anxiety. Researchers are requesting more studies be done because clinical trials of Yoga are hard to standardize and prevent bias, not because the results were negative in Yoga’s ability to treat mental conditions. [2]