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Yoga Or Physical Therapy Help Back Pain Sufferers Sleep

Nov 21, 2019

Vidcast:  ttps://youtu.be/r3cfXswib-I

 

Yoga instruction or individual physical therapy, PT, over a 12 week period leads to better sleep for those plagued by low back pain.  Boston University investigators report this conclusion following their study of  320 adults with back pain.

 

Those using yoga enjoyed a 12% improvement in sleep while those having physical therapy noted  9% better sleep.  The best news is that this sleep improvement is sustained for at least a year.

 

Previous work credits both yoga and PT with improving low back pain.  Now we know that yoga and PT can also help the nearly 60% of those with low back pain that also have sleep problems.

 

 

Eric J. Roseen, Hanna Gerlovin, Alexandra Femia, Jae Cho, Suzanne Bertisch, Susan Redline, Karen J. Sherman, Robert Saper. Yoga, Physical Therapy, and Back Pain Education for Sleep Quality in Low-Income Racially Diverse Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: a Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2019; DOI: 10.1007/s11606-019-05329-4

 

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