Posts Tagged ‘back pain’

Best Bet for Back Pain Relief

Saturday, July 7th, 2012

By Elizabeth Barker

A combination of conventional care and alternative medicine might be the ticket to taming low back pain. In a pilot study recently published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, an integrative approach to back pain treatment (including alternative therapies like massage, acupuncture, chiropractic care, mind-body techniques and nutritional counseling along with [...]

Chronic Back Pain? Try Yoga

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

By Elizabeth Barker
Taking up yoga can soothe pain and boost back-related function among people with chronic backache, according to the largest-ever clinical trial on yoga. Published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the study of 228 adults found that 12 weekly, 75-minute classes of either yoga or stretching exercises resulted in significant back-pain relief.
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