In a statement, KFC spokeswoman Karen Sherman said: "KFC is committed to providing our guests with our world-famous chicken and meals, our Southern hospitality and service and a great value. We won't be satisfied until we are No. 1."
Karen Sherman, the lead author of the back pain study published last week, believes the two new studies provide "better evidence that yoga is worth trying for patients with non-specific low back pain."
back pain because of its combined focus on stretching, strengthening and relaxing. But in a study published Oct. 24 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researcher Karen Sherman of the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle found that classes focused solely on stretching also provided a benefit.
yoga nor stretching was more effective than the other, however. "We expected back pain to ease more with yoga than with stretching, so our findings surprised us," said Karen Sherman, lead author of the study and a senior investigator at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, in a statement.
There were no differences in functional improvement between yoga and plain stretching exercises, although both were better than self-care, Karen Sherman, PhD, MPH, of Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, and colleagues reported online in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
effective than stretching, however. This finding, which surprised the researchers, suggests that the back-pain benefits of yoga are mostly due to its physical (rather than mental or spiritual) aspects, the study notes. And in fact, the stretching class was not unlike a yoga class, says Karen Sherman, Ph.D.