Copyright © 2012, 2005 by Loren Fishman, M.D., and Carol Ardman

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Originally published under the title Relief Is in the Stretch: End Back Pain Through Yoga

First published as a Norton paperback 2006 under the title Cure Back Pain with Yoga

Reissued 2012.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fishman, Loren.

Yoga for back pain / Loren Fishman, Carol Ardman.

p. cm.

Rev. ed. of: Relief is in the stretch / Loren Fishman, Carol Ardman.

1st ed. c2005.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-393-34312-0 (pbk.)

1. Back pain—Exercise therapy. 2. Hatha yoga—Therapeutic use. I. Ardman, Carol.

II. Fishman, Loren. Relief is in the stretch. III. Title.

RD771.B217F5683 2012

617.5'64062—dc23

2012006133

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