This Easy Activity Relieves Arthritis in 60 Minutes

If you have any type of arthritis and you are sitting with your head in your hands after trying dozens of ineffective remedies, this one might just work.

A new study reveals this activity drastically improves or even heals arthritis in as little as 60 minutes. And the effects lasted on the average 9 months.

A paper published in the July 2015 edition of The Journal of Rheumatology concluded that yoga exercises could improve the physical and psychological symptoms of people with rheumatoid or knee osteoarthritis.

The researchers from the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center selected 75 sedentary adults with an average age of 52.

They randomly assigned them either to a waiting list, or to a yoga regime of two one-hour classes and one homework practice session per week. By the end of eight weeks, the yoga group showed a marked improvement in walking ability, pain reduction, positive emotions, general health, vitality, mental health, and depression.

There were two interesting findings. The balance, grip strength, and flexibility of the two groups were approximately the same, meaning that the yoga did not improve the abilities for which it is usually promoted.

Secondly, and possibly the most interesting finding, the physical and psychological benefits enjoyed by the yoga group lasted up to 9 months after the yoga classes ended, primarily because most of the participants enjoyed the exercises and appreciated the benefits so much that they continued to practice it.

So what should you do to experience these benefits?

In this study, the sessions began with five minutes of questions and answers, followed by five minutes of breathing exercises and chanting, 15 minutes of warm-up and moving sequence exercises, 20 minutes of isometric poses, then 10 minutes of deep relaxation, finally ending with five minutes of chanting and meditation.

The poses were adapted for each arthritic participant to ensure that it would not hurt their joints. They included forward bends, backbends, twists, balances, standing, sitting and lying poses.

This is not the only study that suggests that yoga could relieve arthritis, but it is one of the biggest ones. For example, a 2005 paper by University of Pennsylvania academics published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine demonstrated that yoga could improve the pain, physical function, and positive emotions of people with knee osteoarthritis. Almost all of the 11 subjects were obese at the time they started practicing.

The reasons for the positive effects of yoga are not entirely clear. The authors of these studies emphasized the importance of exercise for keeping the arthritic limbs flexible. They also mentioned that yoga practitioners learned to think more positively about their bodies when they saw that exercise was still possible.

So if you suffered any type of arthritis, I highly recommend yoga.

But if you want to completely heal your arthritis, yoga is not enough. Here is the exact step-by-step strategy that completely healed my arthritis and has done the same for thousands of readers…