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Yoga for Back Pain

Selected Poses, Books and Videos

Many people are turning to yoga these days instead of traditional exercise routines for relief of upper and lower back pain. In the book, Backache Relief, the authors surveyed patient's with back problems to find out what treatments the patients themselves found the most effective to relieve their backaches. According to their survey results, an "extraordinarily high" percent of the back sufferers who practice yoga reported good results in the long run. Fifty-one percent of the participants who tried yoga reported that they received "dramatic long term" relief from pain. Yoga was also reported to be helpful for people with scoliosis, neck pain and osteoarthritis.

Some of the poses I personally found especially helpful for back pain from the yoga book Back Care Basics : A Doctor's Gentle Program for Back and Neck Pain Relief ) were:

Crocodile Twist
Passive Back Arch
One Leg Up, One Leg Out
Supported Supine Resting Pose
Forward Triangle Pose
Seated Twist
Chair Seated Forward Bend

Listed below are a couple of the more popular videos from Amazon on yoga and back pain.

Videos:

Living Yoga - Back Care Yoga for Beginners
Product Details
Starring: Rodney Yee
Format: Color, NTSC
Rated: NR
Studio: Living Arts
VHS Features:

NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Color, NTSC

ASIN: 0945671636

Book Review - Backcare Basics - Yoga for Back Pain

Yoga for Eye Floaters - some poses I found helpful.

Research paper from the Annals of Internal Medicine - Yoga may soothe chronic back pain - Study participants in a yoga class had quicker relief than other study members in a standard back exercise class or those reading a self help book.

Tips to Develop a Daily Practice - easy ways to incoporate yoga into your daily life.

For the further information and the specific poses from this book that helped me, see my sections on:

Yoga for Scoliosis - has a list of the specific yoga poses from this book that helped my neck pain, back pain and scoliosis.
A Pain in the Neck - my saga of life with chronic neck pain and the treatments and yoga poses that ended up helping me.
Scoliosis Exercises - Recommended books and tips. Covers yoga and Egoscue method. Has a diagram of how tight muscles in my leg pulled on my back causing scoliosis and back and neck pain.
Sciatica Exercises - how yoga and trigger point therapy helped my sciatic nerve pain.

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