{"id":15557,"date":"2016-08-16T07:28:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T01:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=15554&amp;preview_id=15554"},"modified":"2016-08-16T07:28:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T01:58:38","slug":"87-year-old-woman-says-yoga-helped-her-rid-of-hunchback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=15557","title":{"rendered":"87-year-old woman says yoga helped her rid of hunchback | Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>When Anna Pesce was visiting her children in Wagener, SC, in November 2014, the then-85-year-old Orangeburg, NY, native almost collapsed trying to climb a set of stairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had this horrible pain shooting up my back,\u201d Pesce tells The Post. \u201cI had to be carried up the stairs and put into a wheelchair for the rest of my stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the past few decades, Pesce suffered from hunchbacklike posture \u2014 the result of a herniated disc, scoliosis and osteoporosis, which weakens the bones and can lead to curvature of the spine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried everything: acupuncture, a physical therapist and seeing a chiropractor,\u201d Pesce adds. \u201cYou feel good temporarily, but [I\u2019d be] in pain again soon after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three months after her South Carolina visit, she began working with certified yoga instructor who also suffers from scoliosis \u2014 a curvature in the spine that usually develops during puberty \u2014 and specializes in back care. Pesce\u2019s granddaughter, also a yoga teacher, introduced the two.<\/p>\n<p>Jesien visited Pesce in her home once a week, teaching her restorative poses and stretches such as child\u2019s pose and chair savasana, in which Pesce would rest her lower legs on a chair while lying on the floor with her knees slightly bent and a strap around her thighs. After one month of sessions, Pesce was able to walk again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter two months, another big milestone was that [Pesce] knew what poses to do whenever the usual pains would come up for her,\u201d Jesien says. \u201cFor example, if she was having hip pain, she\u2019d sit on a chair and do an ankle-to-knee pose.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Anna Pesce was visiting her children in Wagener, SC, in November 2014, the then-85-year-old Orangeburg, NY, native almost collapsed trying to climb a set of stairs. \u201cI had this horrible pain shooting up my back,\u201d Pesce tells The Post. \u201cI had to be carried up the stairs and put into a wheelchair for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1141,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}