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Yoga May Decrease Risk for Dowager's Hump

You probably already know that yoga can help your posture now, but a recent study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggests yoga also can also help lower the risk of Dowager's Hump in the elderly. Dowager's Hump, an abnormal outward curvature of the vertebrae of upper back, is often due to osteoporosis and is most common among elderly women (though men can get them, too.)

In a group of elderly participants, those who did yoga three times a day for six months saw their upper spine curve lowered by about 5 percent compared to those who did no yoga, reported the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Read more about the study.

Posted by Erica Rodefer on October 5, 2009 11:51 AM |

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Yoga has a long history of outlandish healing claims.

It's great to see holistic medical science getting to the point of sorting out some of these claims and figuring out which ones really work and which do not.

Bob Weisenberg
http://YogaDemystified.com

Posted by: Bob Weisenberg | October 5, 2009 2:33 PM

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