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Researchers say yoga may improve physical and mental wellbeing for people with arthritis.
Study co-author Susan J. Bartlett, PhD, adjunct associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, and associate professor at McGill University in Canada, and colleagues publish their findings in the Journal of Rheumatology.
Yoga is a mind and body practice that incorporates a combination of controlled breathing, stretching exercises and meditation or relaxation.
