Yoga May Decrease Dowager’s Hump
tracting it, dowager’s hump (hyper- kyphosis) “is not a fait accompli,” advises Dr. Gail Greendale, a phy- sician who specializes in women’s health with an interest in alterna- tive and complementary therapies. Results of a pilot study she led at the University of California, Los Angeles, showed that elderly participants who practiced yoga for six months saw their upper spine curvature lowered by about 5 percent, compared to those who did not. Those with greater spinal flexibility at the start showed a 6 percent improvement.
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More than 100 otherwise
healthy individuals with indica- tors of moderate hyperkyphosis participated. The study group was 81 percent female, with an aver- age age of 75 years.
During the six-month study
period, the yoga group also showed significant relief from up- per back pain, were less likely to report early wakening or insomnia and needed less time to stand up from a chair. Many members of the control group experienced increases in the curvature of their spines during the same period.
Source: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
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