Upper Back Pain?
How often does your upper back hurt? Upper back pain is one of those things that seems to elude the “people in the know”, ie medical researchers and conventional physicians. They’ve done some studies on it but not nearly as many as for neck pain or lower back pain. Yet, one of the few things they do know about upper back pain is that it’s about as common as lower back pain, which affects 80% of people at some point in their lives. It is also just as troubling.
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If you are going to be proactive about getting and staying comfortable, you most likely need an expert to help you. A workplace study, published in the October 2009 Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and involving about 1500 people, found that just buying an ergonomic desk set up isn’t enough to address the posture [...]
Read More →Yoga May Decrease Inflammation, and therefore Risk of Disease
For a while now, science has been gathering evidence that inflammation in the body raises the risk for some preventable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Good news for yoga practitioners: If you practice regularly, you may be reducing the amount of inflammation you have. A new study out of Ohio State University [...]
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