Yoga for Chronic Pain

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Chronic pain is a significant public health problem in the US. It is highly prevalent: over 100 million Americans are estimated to experience chronic pain at any given time. 1 It is costly. Conservative estimates place measurable loss in productivity and direct costs due to chronic pain at over $500 billion annually. 1 It can be debilitating. For the past 25 years, back and neck pain have been the second leading cause of disease burden in wealthy nations. 2 Low back pain is the leading cause of disability globally.3, 4 Yet pain is still poorly managed. Trends over the past decade in the United States indicate that chronic pain is increasingly being managed with guideline-discordant rather than evidencebased approaches. 5 Additionally, US soldiers and veterans experience chronic pain at a higher prevalence and with worse outcomes than in the general US population