Doctor's Orders

Baxter Bell, MD, explains how yoga helps tackle the most common causes of insomnia and can lead to better sleep.

A regular yoga practice is one of your best defenses against illness and remedies when a bug does strike.

In the second part of this series, Baxter Bell describes how to improve balance and agility through your yoga practice.

Baxter Bell examines growing evidence that a regular yoga practice is key to feeling your best as years pass.

In a follow up to his first post on the knees, Baxter Bell addresses knee injuries and how your yoga practice, done mindfully, can help.

Yoga, when practiced with careful attention to alignment, can keep your knees healthy. In this post, Dr. Baxter Bell explains how.

Baxter Bell explains Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, and how to approach your yoga practice when your wrists hurt.

"Time and time again, my students who complain of neck pain at the start of class report improvement by the end of class," writes Baxter Bell, MD. Here he examines why yoga helps.

Baxter Bell explains how yoga can help musicians counteract imbalances caused by playing their instruments and boost their creativity and focus.

The practices of hatha yoga can help you change unhealthful eating habits for good.

Baxter Bell disagrees with New York Times writer William Broad that men are more prone to being injured in yoga.

Baxter Bell describes an alternative to the dorsiflexed position in Upward-Facing Dog for yoga students with ankle injury.

Baxter Bell describes the symptoms and causes of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and explores how a yoga Headstand practice might affect it.

When your practice causes hamstring injury—and how to manage those injuries with your yoga.

Baxter Bell finishes his discussion about the back by looking at the role of "core" muscles, and how to leverage your yoga practice for full and balanced back care.

In this post, Baxter Bell, MD continues his discussion on low back pain, offering ways to create traction with a friend or on your own.

If you suffer from low-back pain, your posture may provide clues as to why. In his continuing exploration of yoga for back pain, Baxter Bell explains how.

In the first of a series on back pain, Baxter Bell dives more deeply into a recent study that explored yoga for chronic low-back pain.

The NCCAM releases information on brand new research about yoga. Baxter Bell shares the good news.

Baxter Bell describes a small hip-lifting action that can relieve pain in this joint.

There are host of reasons men—like women—should do yoga. Here, Baxter Bell explains, and offers some tips for men new to the practice.

Baxter Bell explains what "sciatica" actually is, and suggest some strategies and poses that may help.

Flight delays, or any unexpected and unwanted change in plans, is a great opportunity to practice yoga. Baxter Bell speaks from experience.

To burn off any lingering kapha energy of winter, Baxter Bell recommends adding some stimulating pranayama and asana into your springtime practice.

Baxter Bell explains what happens in the spine during poses like Paschimottanasana, and suggests modifications for the 90 percent of us who could benefit from some assistance.

Baxter Bell describes a program of asana, pranayama, and other gentle practices to help you sleep.

Baxter Bell offers a yogic prescription for sufferers of the autoimmune disease lupus.

Protect your knees and eliminate pain and discomfort with this variation on Pigeon Pose.

Your yoga mat is an ideal place to cultivate the yogic qualities of concentration and discernment. Baxter Bell explains how.

The controversial NYTs book excerpt about yoga and injury made some valid observations, says Baxter Bell, MD. But what the author neglected to mention is yoga's many rewards.