Chair Yoga Fitness – Gail Pickens-Barger

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…

A regular yoga practice, be it gentle, or seated on the chair, helps with the following health conditions:

• Health Benefits Within – From lowering blood pressure to increasing pain tolerance, the following health benefits can all be discovered within the body.
• Blood pressure. A consistent yoga practice decreases blood pressure through better circulation and oxygenation of the body. These two exercises can help lower blood pressure.
• Pulse rate. A slower pulse rate indicates that your heart is strong enough to pump more blood with fewer beats. Regularly practicing yoga provides a lower pulse rate.
• Circulation. Yoga improves blood circulation. By transporting nutrients and oxygen throughout your body, yoga practice provides healthier organs, skin, and brain.
• Respiratory. Like the circulatory system, a lower respiratory rate indicates that the lungs are working more efficiently. Yoga decreases the…