A recent new study suggests that movement and motions involved in daily muslim prayers may offer relief from lower back pain quite akin to physical therapy and yoga. The research also proposed that regularly practicing the respective motions could immensely help patients in dealing with their lower back-aches.
The paper was published online in the International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, discovered that the poses struck by muslims in their daily prayers, which is inclusive of kneeling and touching the ground with their foreheads is a great remedy for lower back pain if performed regularly.
Study co-author, Dr. Mohammad Khasawneh while talking to foreign media stated, One way to think about the movements is that they are similar to those of yoga or physical therapy intervention exercises used to treat low back pain. Physical health is influenced by socio-economic, lifestyle and religious factors. Moreover, studies indicate that there is a strong association between prayer and vigilance about maintaining a physically healthy lifestyle.
For research purposes, the team from Binghamton University, State University of New York employed the use of a computer-made model of healthy adult men and women from various racial and national backgrounds including subjects of Indian, Asian and American lineages. The model proved that while bowing puts the most stress on the lower back, the angle involved in downward kneeling associated with the Muslim prayer pose actually helped reduce the pain.
The kneeling posture (sujud) increases the elasticity of joints. It is recommended for these individuals to spend more time in the kneeling posture, concluded Khasawneh.
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