{"id":24955,"date":"2016-03-29T13:55:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T12:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=24955"},"modified":"2020-12-08T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:06:00","slug":"have-back-pain-meditation-and-yoga-might-just-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/have-back-pain-meditation-and-yoga-might-just-help\/","title":{"rendered":"HAVE BACK PAIN? MEDITATION AND YOGA MIGHT JUST HELP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/man-having-back-pain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/man-having-back-pain.jpg\" alt=\"man having back pain\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/man-having-back-pain.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/man-having-back-pain-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back pain isn\u2019t an uncommon occurrence in many working adults, and unconventional methods like meditation and cognitive behavioural therapy can be effective in alienating the condition, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>The study which was published in the <i>Journal of the American Medical Association<\/i> (JAMA) was a clinical trial with 342 adults ages 20-70 who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krislindahl.com\/back-pain-management-guide.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suffered from lower back pain<\/a> for an average of seven years.<\/p>\n<p>After 26 weeks, the researchers discovered that patients treated with cognitive behavioural therapy or mindfulness-based stress reduction and yoga had &#8220;clinically meaningful improvement&#8221; of functional limitations compared to those with usual care.<\/p>\n<p>One third, selected at random, was treated with MBSR and yoga, while another third used cognitive behavioural therapy, which helps patients identify and resolve bad behavioural choices and negative thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>The last third was treated with pain medications.<\/p>\n<p>The improvement was measured at 61 percent for Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MSBR) and yoga, ahead of 58 percent for CBT and 44 percent for conventional medicine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These findings suggest that MBSR may be an effective treatment option for patients with chronic low back pain,&#8221; the authors wrote.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>S.O.Z<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back pain isn\u2019t an uncommon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2584],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38261,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955\/revisions\/38261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}