Back Pain? Here’s How You Deal With It In The Simplest Yet Effective Way.

We work and study hard for our daily grind even taking for granted of our body thinking that we can sustain the heavy day. However, as a result, our body is not a robot that we feel tired and even feel some pain in various areas. This is because of fatigue both in our body and mind.

One of the cause of working too hard is the nagging back pain. While we understand that we needed rest when we feel so, it might seem good as well to meditate or perform yoga. And to support this, new study suggests this approach could be as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy—a common technique that involves relaxation and education.

In the research, the researchers compared the two approaches in 229 adults between ages 20 and 70 with long-term low back pain. Involving meditation and yoga, they assigned about half to undergo eight weekly sessions of mindfulness-bases stress reduction.

 

Another half were involved on cognitive behavioral therapy which focuses on helping people change the way they think about pain. While so, 114 adults continued their usual care which falls down to taking pain medications.

In the end of the eight-week course, the research concluded that 47% of people in the mindfulness group said their back pain was less disabling. While so, 52% in the cognitive behavioral therapy reported less disabling pain. The results of those who attended therapy compared to those who did not change their treatment showed a great difference to which the rest of the group whom only 35% had experienced improvements.

“Our results confirm what has already been found for (cognitive behavioral therapy), and we went beyond that to show this other mindfulness approach was equally effective for chronic back pain,” said Daniel C. Cherkin, a senior scientific investigator at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle.

There has been a lot of research supporting the help of the cognitive behavioral therapy could provide in improving disability and mood in people with many types of chronic pain on backs. Meditation and yoga has been found out good way to lessen back pain.

So how does meditation works? 68% of improvement was noticed by the number of people in the mindfulness group (within the study) compared to the results of last year’s study.

According to the researchers, those who undergone traditional medication like taking pain medicines maintained a plateau improvement results compared to those who undergone therapy on mind and behavior which results were apparently high.

It is a must that when you go through mind and cognitive behavioral therapy to be consistent in doing so and eventually apply what you have personally learned. The secret always lies with the one who goes through it.

The researcher closed that he believes people can experience almost mmediate results from mindfulness, but not as brief as taking an opiate pill or some other type of pain medication.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/

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