Effectiveness of Yoga to Reduce Back Pain

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 Back pain can occur due to many reasons. Whether due to the weak muscles of the lower back, or slipping of the disk one above the other or for any other reason, back pain can become a highly problematic health concern because the person is able to sit, stand or walk. In most of the cases, however, yoga poses can provide the much needed help. The modern physiotherapy techniques to deal with this problem are also based on these yoga postures.

What yoga does is to strengthen the muscles where strengthening is required. It also helps to relieve the pressure on nerves of the back which has resulted in compression. These release of pressure provides the much needed relief. Yoga may not be a panacea for all back pain problems but it makes life a lot easier to live with the problem, often without experiencing any pain.

So, the objective of yoga to reduce back pain is sought to be achieved by any modern yoga centre which specializes in offering this way of relief. A number of poses are given in the video below for different types of back pain issues, including slip disc and lumbar spondylitis.


The Role of Yoga Trainer

The role of yoga trainer becomes a lot more important in this context. The trainer has to know what has precisely gone wrong and how is it going to be resolved. The diagnosis of the problem assumes a lot of importance. Modern imaging techniques can be used to know the nature of problem and then the correct asanas can be worked out.

It has been seen in practice that most of the expert trainers for back pain problem do not require these imaging diagnostic tools for giving the yoga therapy. They have the benefit of experience to help them find out the problem by knowing the symptoms you are experiencing. Therefore, if the yoga expert to whom you have done does not require the x-ray report or any other, just do not be worried as most of them do not need this. However, you must check for the expertise level of the trainer and seek reviews from others about the efficacy of his methods.

In the end, it is your level of trust in a particular trainer which will be the deciding factor to give you the treatment.

Yoga has proved very effective in helping people live with back pain problem by reducing severity of pain.  Yoga has been able to bring relief in vast majority of cases where even doctors had prescribed surgical operation.

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