Do this exercise, meditate and say goodbye to your back pain

Calming meditations and yoga effectively helps with back pains, says a new study. Photos: EPA

Meditation and cognitive behavioural therapy, which are not conventional treatments for back pain, seem to be effective in alleviating the common condition of back pain say researchers.

After 26 weeks, researchers say patients treated with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) or mindfulness-based stress reduction (MSBR) and yoga had "clinically meaningful improvement" of functional limitations compared to those with usual care.