Practicing yoga can be beneficial to combat back pain

Researchers at the University of Maryland (United States) claim that yoga can be beneficial to alleviate low-back pain, the lower part of the back, a very debilitating problem which is difficult to treat, according to a review of studies published in the 'Cochrane Review'

"yoga practice is associated with pain relief and improve lumbar function" It has recognized susan Wieland, profesorade family medicine and community who has led the research, which analysed a dozen studies with over a thousand participants. 

 In the research are compared the practice of yoga accompanied of different interventions as the use of material educational or physiotherapy. Of this mode, looked that there is an evidence of low to moderate of that, after between three and six months of yoga, is get an improvement also small or moderate of the mobility of the back, so how a slight improves of the pain.

The problem, say the authors, is found few studies comparing the practice of yoga with the of other exercises to establish significant differences. 

The majority of them trials used variants of the yoga as ' iyengar', ' hatha' or ' viniyoga', and them authors admit also that them changes in the perception of the pain or of it function lumbar could be conditioned by the made of that them participating know that it are using with that end, hence qualify them benefits as "moderate" in the best of them cases. 

The study also found that patients who used yoga had more adverse effects than patients who did nothing, but had rates similar to that those who chose another type of exercises, and mainly back pain, but nothing serious.