Two treatments were used in the study. One was yoga and the other method was TCT, or tinnitus coping training. There was also a control group. Yoga showed very poor effects. In most cases the TCT group showed great improvement, while the yoga and contol groups showed little improvement.
Yoga does seem to have an effect on stress and minor aches and pains.
It also seems that yoga has a great effect on the psychological factors of diseases. Yoga can almost always be used in addition to traditional healing methods, especially with diseases that involve psychological stress or depression. Twelve years of experience with Yoga in psychiatry. Psysiological and psychological effects of Hatha-Yoga excercise in healthy women. Evaluation of a Yoga based regimen for treatment of osteoarthritis of the hands.