This 9 minute yoga exercise sequence is by a lady called Ester Eckhart. Some of the routines are fairly tricky but some are fairly straightforward. This is the sequences that she does herself when she has back pain.
Yoga Exercises for Back Pain
This 9 minute yoga exercise sequence is by a lady called Ester Eckhart. Some of the routines are fairly tricky but some are fairly straightforward. This is the sequences that she does herself when she has back pain.
The Bay State Banner reports a study by Dr. Robert Saper of Boston University’s School of Medicine on the effect of yoga on back pain. Of 30 participants, half of them took 75 minutes of yoga once a week, the other continued on their regular prescribed treatments. After 3 months the yoga participants said their pain had dropped 33%, compared to a 5% drop for the non yoga participants. The yoga participants also needed 80% less medication.
“Yoga was more effective than usual care, at least in the short term, for reducing pain and pain medication use,” said the researchers.
“Although the study is pretty small, these results are promising,” said Dr Stephen Tringale.
Iyengar yoga therapy for chronic low back pain
In a study funded by the NIH and reported in the Journal Spine in September 2009, researchers at West Virginia University showed yoga helped people with chronic low back pain.
90 total patients were split into two groups. One group participated in 24 weeks of biweekly yoga classes designed for CLBP (Chronic low back pain), the other group received standard medical care.
The study concluded "Yoga improves functional disability, pain intensity, and depression in adults with CLBP. There was also a clinically important trend for the yoga group to reduce their pain medication usage compared to the control group."
The report abstract is on pubmed and a fuller write up is on medpage.
The reports authors stated ""Despite the fact that significant improvements at 12 weeks were found in the participants adherent to the study, we believe that a 24-week period of yoga practice for [chronic lower back pain] is superior since this time period can better prepare participants to sustain the benefits by improving posture, helping to retrain the musculoskeletal system, and building the skills needed to decrease the rate of relapse,""
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