Yoga Relieves Back Pain (and Depression)
If you’ve been suffering from chronic back pain, take up yoga. New research shows that over time the Eastern practice eases pain in your lower back and even lifts bad moods and bouts of depression.
Reported in the online journal Spine, the researched studied two groups over three years. The participants who did yoga were taught by Iyengar certified instructors for 90 minutes twice a week for 24 weeks.
According to Dr Kimberly Williams, research assistant professor in the Department of Community Medicine at West Virginia University, the yoga group had less pain, were more mobile and less depressed.
“Yoga improves functional disability, pain intensity, and depression in adults with CLBP [chronic low-back pain],” says Williams. “There was also a clinically important trend for the yoga group to reduce their pain medication usage compared to the control group.”
Williams and her colleagues began their study of the two groups in an attempt to scientifically prove what many yogis have been claiming for years – that yoga helps ease back pain.
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