Yoga is just as helpful at treating lower back pain as physical therapy (and the benefits last a year)

Yoga relieves lower back pain as effectively as physiotherapy, research suggests.

Lower back pain affects four of every five people in the UK at some point in their life, and is one of the most common medical complaints seen by GPs.

Yet despite most people experiencing the problem, there are few effective treatments.

For decades powerful painkillers have been doled out in their millions to relieve the agony of back pain – but growing evidence suggests the drugs are ineffective for the complaint, as well as being highly addictive.

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