Therapist Unlimited Blog

A recent study has confirmed that doing yoga can offer treatment to those patients suffering from back-pain.
Based on the student made by the West Virginia University it was discovered that people with chronic low-back problems who do yoga also do better at overcoming pain and depression than people treated
conventionally for back pain.
According to the the three-year, $400,000 study, those group who did yoga postures showed lifted mood, less pain and
improved function compared with a control group who received standard medical therapy.
Kimberly Williams, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the Department of Community Medicine revealed the yoga group had less pain, less functional disability and less depression compared with the control group.

Those who wish to find relief in their back-pain can try yoga as treatment.

Williams added the result were statistically significant and clinically important changes that must be maintained six months after the intervention.
She said 90 study subjects, who experienced mild to moderate functional disability, were randomly assigned to the yoga group or the group that received conventional medical therapy.
She added yoga participants took 90-minute classes twice a week for 24 weeks, doing postures targeted to relieve chronic low-back pain.
Williams said a follow up continued for six months after the end of classes or therapy.
Moreover, Williams said the classes were taught by certified Iyengar yoga instructors.
She said a popular form of yoga in the United States, Iyengar yoga emphasises postures that encourage strength, flexibility and balance.
It is said based on the latest statistics that in the United States, low-back pain represents the largest category of medical reimbursements, with $34 billion in direct medical costs reported annually.