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Meditation may work better than painkillers when it comes to soothing chronic low back pain, a new clinical trial suggests.
The study found that a program called mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) beat standard medical care for managing low back pain.
After one year, people who attended MBSR classes were more than 40 percent likely to show "meaningful" improvements in their pain and daily activities compared to people who sought conventional care for their aching backs.
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