You know yoga is relaxing, but are you aware of all the benefits it can offer people with RA? Consider these joint-friendly tools to use for home practice. “Someone with joint pain might not be able ...
When she was a teenager, a doctor told Marina Nellius her rheumatoid arthritis would eventually force her into a wheelchair. "He said I'd be crippled by the age of 25," she says. "I remember his exact ...
According to a new study, eight weeks of intensive yoga practice significantly decreases the severity of physical and psychological symptoms in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a ...
May 23, 2012 (Honolulu, Hawaii) — Young women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) showed improvement after practicing Iyengar-style yoga for 6 weeks, a new study shows. Women in this pilot study reported ...
"There's kind of a myth that says if you have arthritis, the good thing to do is to rest your joints," says a John Hopkins professor who co-authored a study that might bust the myth wide open. In the ...
Living with arthritis can often feel like a severe battle, with pain and stiffness disrupting even the simplest of daily tasks. While medications and conventional treatments are crucial in managing ...
Exercise works all kinds of wonders on the human body, from stabilizing joints to improving muscle mass to reducing inflammation. That’s pretty motivating when your body feels good—but less so when it ...
If you suffer from arthritis pain, you might assume that all types of exercise are off-limits, but that’s not true. In fact, regularly doing yoga stretches for arthritis symptoms can help you feel ...
Explore this yoga introduction to discover how gentle exercise can help you find relief for arthritis and joint pain. Is arthritis pain getting you down? If you are one of the millions of people who ...
New research in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience supports adding yoga as an adjunctive therapy to treat this chronic inflammatory disease According a study published in Restorative Neurology and ...
Ask the average person on the street if exercise is beneficial and they'll likely say that it is, even if they don't exercise regularly themselves. Indeed, most of us take it for granted that a ...