Yoga More Effective In Curing Chronic Back Pain
A new study has found that yoga appears to be more effective than conventional exercise when it comes to getting rid of that nagging back pain.
The study, by researchers at Group Health Cooperative's Center for Health Studies, was conducted on a group of 101 adults with low back pain.
The volunteers were then divided into three groups. One group attended twelve 75-minute to learn yoga per week and practice it at home, the second group also attended twelve 75-minute sessions of conventional exercises such as aerobic, strengthening, and stretching exercise per week, plus home practice. The third and final group received a self-care book on back pain.
The research found that after a period of 26 weeks, the patients in the yoga group had better back-related function and less pain. It was also noted that the number of people using pain relievers in the yoga group had lessened.
The yoga students learned 17 poses from viniyoga, a style that is easy to learn and typically allows poses to be adapted for use by various body types. Karen Sherman, the lead author of the study, said that treatments offered by modern Western medicine were only partially effective.
"Most people have experienced back pain at some point in their lives. Sometimes the pain goes away in a few days, but sometimes it lasts for weeks. And unfortunately, the treatments offered by modern Western medicine are only modestly effective. Although exercise is one of the few proven treatments for chronic low back pain, its effects are often small and we haven't known whether one form is better than another," she said. The study is published in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
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The study, by researchers at Group Health Cooperative's Center for Health Studies, was conducted on a group of 101 adults with low back pain.
The volunteers were then divided into three groups. One group attended twelve 75-minute to learn yoga per week and practice it at home, the second group also attended twelve 75-minute sessions of conventional exercises such as aerobic, strengthening, and stretching exercise per week, plus home practice. The third and final group received a self-care book on back pain.
The research found that after a period of 26 weeks, the patients in the yoga group had better back-related function and less pain. It was also noted that the number of people using pain relievers in the yoga group had lessened.
The yoga students learned 17 poses from viniyoga, a style that is easy to learn and typically allows poses to be adapted for use by various body types. Karen Sherman, the lead author of the study, said that treatments offered by modern Western medicine were only partially effective.
"Most people have experienced back pain at some point in their lives. Sometimes the pain goes away in a few days, but sometimes it lasts for weeks. And unfortunately, the treatments offered by modern Western medicine are only modestly effective. Although exercise is one of the few proven treatments for chronic low back pain, its effects are often small and we haven't known whether one form is better than another," she said. The study is published in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
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