Lower back can be insidiously painful and debilitating. It is also very scary to some extent since the backbone is the nerve centre of the whole body and any damage to it could result in partial or even complete paralysis in the worst case scenario.

Your back health is not something to be taken lightly, but rather something that you should be aware of consciously and take care of properly.

Yoga for Back Pain: Know the reasons

Due to the delicate nature of our backbone and the spinal cord within doing yoga as therapy can be dangerous unless you've been directly prescribed to do this by a doctor or maybe a qualified chiropractor.

While yoga in general is a great idea - it improves muscular tone, increases versatility as well as blood circulation, and is great for your blood pressure - doing yoga for lower back as a therapy without knowing the extent of damage is not wise.

If you are not a physician, you wouldn't know whether your lower back pain is due to something as simple as having slept incorrectly, having pulled a muscle, or in case you've slipped a disc, in the worst case.
You could even have some kind of chronic ailment that yoga will exacerbate rather than help.

And remember, your body doesn't always register pain when you're not taking care of it. You may also end up in less discomfort after yoga but end up doing some structural damage which might pop up later. That's the last thing you need.