 Some research suggests yoga can help |
Millions of UK people suffer from chronic low back pain, and existing treatments have only a limited effect.
A team of academics, yoga teachers and practitioners have joined forces to find out if a 12-week course of yoga can make a difference.
The Arthritis Research Campaign-backed project will assess moves from the two most popular types of yoga.
Yoga offers a combination of physical exercise with mental focus that may make it a suitable therapy for the treatment of low back pain 
University of York
These are lyengar yoga and hatha yoga, favoured by the British Wheel of Yoga.
More than 260 people between the ages of 18 and 65 who have had back pain in the past 18 months will be recruited for the trial.
Recent, small studies in the US have shown that yoga can be helpful for back pain sufferers.
But David Torgerson, director of the University of York Clinical trials Unit, and Jennifer Klaber Moffett, deputy director of the Institute of Rehabilitation at the University of Hull, believe a bigger study is needed to unequivocally establish the benefits.
'Considerable impact'
Professor Torgerson said: "Yoga offers a combination of physical exercise with mental focus that may make it a suitable therapy for the treatment of low back pain. Read more...
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