Thursday, September 10, 2009

Yoga Vs Medicine = Lower back pain?

Actually.. Lower back pain is an enormous health and economic problem in the U.S. Annually Americans spend $50 billion on lower back problems. New research shows there’s natural drug free and effective help for those with chronic lower back pain.. Yoga. “Spine” A Journal that was published stated  that a group of people who suffered from lower back pain who regularly practiced yoga – they had less pain, improved function, and a better mood. The $400,000 study, funded by the National Institutes of Health (Bit pricey..) 3 Years/90 People – half of them were randomly assigned to study Iyengar style yoga and half received conventional medical therapy. The ones practicing yoga took 90 minute classes for two times a week lasting 24 weeks, working in postures chosen to relieve chronic low-back pain. The team followed on with the researched participants both during the trial and six months after the medical therapy/yoga classes ended. The results were dramatic – The yoga group had far less pain, less functional disability and less depressed when they had been compared with the control group. “These were statistically significant and clinically important changes that were maintained six months after the intervention (yoga),” Dr. Williams stated.

A much greater proportion of yoga subjects reported improvements in their conditions through and after both 12 and 24 weeks of taking yoga classes. Whenever anyone participants in the yoga group had pain.. It was often less intense. “There was also a clinically important trend for the yoga group to reduce their pain medication usage compared to the control group,” the authors of the study concluded.

I hope this blog was informing to you all.

Dardon.

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