Online yoga classes prove helpful for back pain in new study
NPROnline yoga classes prove helpful for back pain in new study toggle caption AndreyPopov/iStockphoto/Getty Images Online yoga classes relieved chronic low back pain and slashed the need for pain-relief medications, a new study shows. Back pain sufferers who took 12 weeks of virtual live-streamed yoga classes also slept better and moved more easily than participants on a wait list for the classes, the study published in early November in JAMA Network Open reported. Researchers divided 140 Cleveland Clinic employee health plan patients in Ohio and Florida with chronic low back pain into two groups: one received virtual hatha yoga classes, and the other was on a wait list for yoga. Sponsor Message Three of the new study's participants who took yoga classes reported temporary flareups of back pain, possibly related to the yoga.