Reformer Helps Relieve Chronic Back Pain

Dealing with back pain — overwhelmingly suffered as a result of our Western lifestyle involving just plain bad posture for hours on end — is one of, if not the, most commonly Googled search terms over time.

More and more, the recommendation for relief from back pain is to move your body to speed recovery, but only with carefully monitored exercise. This free to read New York Times article contains a good discussion of the causes, and treatments, of chronic back pain.

This article describing a randomized clinical trial conducted in conjunction with the National Institute of Health on whether or not Pilates reformer exercises could alleviate discomfort points to a clear reduction in experienced pain by participants who took Pilates reformer classes during the time period involved.