The effectiveness of yoga for chronic low back pain

Why yoga for chronic Low Back Pain? cLBP

• Educational book self help book
• Exercise / PT
• Yoga
• All three reduced chronic low back pain.

All three reduced chronic low back pain.

At the 12 week mark, the yoga reduced cLBP the most according to several scientific studies.

But…

The additional benefits of yoga included:

• Less pain
• Better sleep quality
• Less stress and more

The studies found that there wasn’t much additional pain reduction based on taking one VS two classes a week. Clients also had a home practice.

The cost effectiveness in doing yoga vs PT/Exercise/Book
was that the yoga participants only lost 2 days of work due to their cLBP.
VS doing the usual therapies for low back pain, they lost 43 days of work.

Typically, when you go to the PT or Exercise or read from…