Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 16 Jul 2009

Chronic Pain and Yoga Therapy

Page Range: 35 – 38
DOI: 10.17761/ijyt.1.1-2.5j6m57225l138202
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One of the most baffling phenomena that health practitioners face is Pain. Although modern medicine has acquired some success in understanding and alleviating pain as a symptom, it is still almost completely at a loss when pain itself is the problem.

Something like 80% of people who visit a doctor do so because of pain. Yet no doctor can see, touch it or feel it in the same way as the patient does. No medical instrument or machine has been developed to measure it.

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