Spinal Degeneration — Disc Issues, Spinal Stenosis, Bone Spurs & Related Medical Terminology

Research

Spines of yoga teachers had significantly less degenerative disc disease than non-practitioners (2011)  link

• “The effects of yoga in preventing or eliminating low back pain are well documented. Now a new study shows that yoga may even reduce degenerative disc disease in the spine, a condition thought to be the precursor of numerous back pain conditions.”
• Study compared MRI images of spines of yoga teachers with 10 + years experience versus a group of people who do not practice yoga.
• “The yoga teachers were found to have significantly less degenerative disc disease… They all practiced a gentle and slow form of yoga, and as a group, they proved to have significantly less spinal degeneration than the group of control subjects who were matched for age, sex, general health, and were non-smokers.”
• “This study showed that long-term yoga practice could prevent several conditions otherwise lying at the root of chronic back pain as people get older.”
• Published in the European Health Journal.

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