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It seems like thumbs-up might be yoga鈥檚 newest .

I wrote a blog post earlier this month about two studies that suggest yoga is good medicine for bad backs, although in one of the studies stretching exercises were equally effective.

Yoga came up during my interview with Australian researcher聽, one of my sources for the front-page article about foot pain and problems and how they might lead to falls for the November 2011 issue of the 天博体育 Letter. Sure, there isn鈥檛 a lot of research to go on, conceded Menz. But yoga seems to be a good way to keep your feet strong and flexible, he explained, and so probably helps with staying on them.

Yoga was also endorsed as a possible treatment for migraine by , co-author of The Migraine Solution, a book being published by 天博体育 Publishing and St. Martin鈥檚 Press, which is scheduled to come out in January 2012. Near the end of an interview in his office at the at Faulkner Hospital in Boston, I was asking Dr. Rizzoli about ways to treat migraines that didn鈥檛 involve taking a medication鈥攅verything that comes under that nebulous 鈥渁lternative medicine鈥� heading.聽Yoga is a personal favorite of his for his patients, said Dr. Rizzoli, because it is widely available, affordable, and very likely has benefits beyond migraine.

Biofeedback may have more supporting evidence, he told me, but the problem with biofeedback is that it鈥檚 neither widely available nor reliably covered by health insurance.

Further reading on yoga from 天博体育 Publishing

We鈥檝e written a lot about yoga here at 天博体育 Publishing. My colleagues at the Harvard Mental Health Letter published a piece about yoga for anxiety and depression two years ago. The Harvard Heart Letter was cautiously optimistic last year about what yoga could do for your heart. And my next-door neighbors at the Harvard Women鈥檚 Health Watch have reported on yoga鈥檚 benefits for women鈥檚 sexual function and back pain.