Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs

Low Back Pain Yoga Research

Yogaforbacks.co.uk  = an educational social enterprise website, promoting the ‘Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs’ programme proven effective for chronic low back pain by The University of York research.

Research results are published and it is the world’s largest ever scientific yoga research study.

You can find the Book and Relaxations CD used in the research here:

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Low Back Pain? “The CD is like magic – feels as if I’m stuffed full of painkillers. I’m looking forward to beginning my 12-week course.” “Before I felt I was on a depressing,downward spiral of degeneration, but … [Read More...]	Healthcare Professional? “This evidence-based yoga programme could (or should!) be the way forward for back pain treatment. It is affordable, empowers patients and offers long-term benefits to society.” On this website … [Read More...]
Yoga Teacher? “This book contains so much – I now know how much more there is to learn.” “I will recommend other teachers attend your training course, as this is so good for yoga and allows people with back… [Read More...]	Yoga Student? “Having this toolkit of extra yoga skills and knowledge up my sleeve has revolutionised my yoga practice and my life.” “OF COURSE, after 12 months of practising the sequences, I no longer have back … [Read More...]

Research-Proven Yoga

‘Yoga for chronic low back pain: A randomized trial’, Helen E Tilbrook, Helen Cox, Catherine E Hewitt, Ling-Hsiang Chuang, Shalmini Jayakody, Arthur Ricky Kang’ombe, John D Aplin, Anna Semlyen, Alison Trewhela, Ian Watt, David J Torgerson Published by a leading international US journal ‘Annals of Internal Medicine’  (Nov. 2011; Vol 15 No 9; 569-578).

This UK RCT research with 313 participants found that specialist group yoga classes led by trained yoga teachers gave significant benefits to beginners to yoga with low back pain. Benefits were maintained 12 months after beginning the 12-class ‘Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs’ course and participants practised yoga at home.  Physicians and clinicians should feel comfortable referring to this evidence-based safe and effective treatment option.  This is the largest research trial on yoga to date, worldwide.

NEW PUBLISHED COST-EFFECTIVENESS PAPER

Our cost-effectiveness paper has been published in ‘Spine’ journal (March 16th 2012) showing the ‘Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs’ programme to be a cost-effective option for the UK NHS and to be of value to the economy and society.  ’A Pragmatic Multi-centred Randomized Controlled Trial of Yoga for Chronic Low Back Pain: Economic Evaluation’ Chuang LH, Soares MO, Tilbrook H, Cox H, Hewitt CE, Aplin J, Semlyen A, Trewhela A, Watt I, Torgerson DJ.  ‘Conclusion. Based on this trial 12 weekly group classes of specialised yoga is likely to be a cost-effective intervention for treating patients with chronic or recurrent low back pain.’ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22433499