Participant reported relief from chronic low back pain and reduced need for pain-relief medications.
Online yoga classes relieved chronic low back pain and slashed the need for pain-relief medications, a new study shows.
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced many yoga teachers to offer classes online, Saper and his colleagues decided to test the effectiveness of virtual yoga in what they believe is the first study of its kind. At the beginning of the study, participants, mostly college-educated white women between the ages of 38 and 59, reported their back pain levels as around 6 out of 10. After six weeks, the yoga students' reported pain levels dropped to 4, and after six months, slid to 3. The pain levels of those on the waiting list remained constant.At the beginning of the study, 74% of participants were taking some form of pain medicine.
Numerous previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of yoga or other back-related exercise to ease chronic low back pain or improve function. The quality of the evidence in many of these was not high though, note the authors of aSaper noted that yoga,"like many other self-care practices, is not a quick fix."
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