Yoga exercises are helpful in strengthening your connection with gravity, extending your spine, and improving the capacity of your lungs. Practicing yoga can train you to use gravity to achieve functional movements and improve your alignment and posture for greater ease in movements and less tension in the muscles. Yoga also opens your breathing mechanism as well as provides your adrenal glands and nervous system a break and access to the parasympathetic nervous system. This will lead to better digestion and immune defenses in the body. Problems in the adrenal glands and nervous system cause stress and the so-called fight or flight response.

Back pain can be caused by constant exposure to vibration of the entire body over prolonged periods. The more intense and the longer you are exposed to this vibration, the higher the risk of getting a back injury. And when you start suffering from back pain, constant whole-body vibration can aggravate the pain.

Intervertebral discs absorb impact of vibration by acting as a cushion to the spine. Basically, a herniated disc is a disc with a hole in it. In a herniated disc, the tough external membrane of the disc (which is called the annulus fibrosis) is broken and the soft internal membrane (which is called the nucleus pulposis) extrudes. When the extrusion touches a nerve, pain takes place.

Generally, yoga is beneficial for the health of the spines. Research done with modern imaging techniques has shown a new model of spinal health: curved, flexible, and plastic (not stiff or straight). Aside from that, modern lifestyles that are sedentary in nature such as using computer and driving for long periods can result in poor posture, which in turn causes discomfort and pain in the lower back.