Proper movements in Muslim prayer ritual can reduce lower back pain

Monday, March 6, 2017 - 21:01 in Health & Medicine

Five times a day, roughly 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, bow, kneel, and place their foreheads to the ground in the direction of the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as part of the Islamic prayer ritual, the Salat. According to research, the complex physical movements of the ritual can reduce lower back pain if performed regularly and properly.

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