Many disciplines other than yoga combine help for the spine, the mind and the spirit. But none comes dose to matching the wide-spread appeal and positive results of yoga.
If you haven’t tried yoga because it seems mystical or somehow peculiar to you – an activity associated with ex-hippies or Indian holy men – consider the following comments.
A joiner was surprised and delighted to find that yoga suited him. "Yoga has helped my back more than anything,’ he said. ‘I stumbled on it by accident as a back pain therapy. I was curious and took. a class.’
Yoga is a wonderful .way to keep your back limber and your whole body in good shape,’ commented a domestic cleaner. ‘It is such a wonderful experience – by practicing some yogic lower back pain exercises my spine and muscles feel so much improved and my head feels clearer. It is the best thing to do for your back as well as your spirit,’
A manual worker said, ‘Yoga seems to have strengthened my back. It certainly brings a lot of temporary relief from tension. But if not practiced regularly and carefully, I believe it is possible to harm the spine with "over-enthusiastic" yoga.’
In summary, an extraordinarily high percentage of back pain sufferers who practice yoga type back pain exercises get good results in the long run. However, individualized, modified yoga instruction is the key to success, since many regular yoga positions can lead to injury. Modified yoga therapy helped back sufferers with osteoarthritis, neck pain and scoliosis as well as the more "main stream" back problems.
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