Yoga for back pain
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Is yoga helpful for back pain? Should there be yoga classes for back pain? What could go wrong? What could go right?
I’ve done a very rare guest post about yoga and back pain, for Jenni Rawlings Yoga. This was a substantive project, many weeks in the making, and there are three pieces:
- The free post on JenniRawlingsBlog.com. Jenni added quite a bunch of context for her audience in her intro and extro.
- A longer, shiny new chapter for my back pain book. I go into quite a bit more detail there, as I do. But it’s paywalled: the full exploration of the topic is for my back pain book customers only.
- A nice side dish of a podcast interview, also free. I had a really good conversation with both Jenni and Travis Pollen.
Yoga has been a neglected topic on PainScience.com, and every bit of this was stuff I “should” have written about ages ago. It all felt terribly overdue. But I suppose that’s going to be true of almost every topic I tackle from now on! I will always be “finally” getting to them.