Yoga To Help Your Lower Back Pain?

Sure, there's a lot of hype about yoga and meditation these days. 2005 marked the resurgence of yoga unlike anything we've seen for years. I'm obviously a firm believer in yoga and meditation, they've literally changed my life in the last few years - but one area I never thought of yoga helping is lower back pain.

Its nice to see that finally some real research effort is being put into exploring the benefits of yoga and meditation. Hype simply doesn't help those of us who are looking for real information on the benefits of yoga and meditation.

In fact, the purpose of the "Yoga Success" website is to collect as much real information on its benefits as possible. Today, we have a new one to add to the list thanks to research released on yoga and lower back pain by the Cooperative's Center for Health Studies published in the Dec 20th issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.

This study of over 100 lower back pain sufferers concluded that yoga achieved better relief from lower back pain than did other methods such as aerobics, exercise and typical self-care books on back pain. You can read more here in this article about the yoga and lower back pain research

Jeff