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Meditate to Ease the Pain

Doctors and experts in Western and Eastern medicine have often bumped heads over the use of integrated forms of healing such as meditation. But a recent study at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center found that meditation significantly reduced chronic lower back pain in senior citizens. The post-gazette shares the good news of how we’re learning how to take the best parts of both worlds and merge them.

Posted: 2/6/08