Yoga believes that regular practice of some particular asanas and pranayamas strengthens nervous system and help to face stressful situation positively. Yoga can help promote a healthier nervous system.

Ancient yogis fully understood vulnerability of spine and tendency for slight spinal misalignments to occur. They also knows that if spine was kept flexible by yogasana, there would be much less chance of spinal misalignments. Some of asanas will even correct some minor misalignments.

Yoga  poses directs blood flows to brain and spine and helps in improving functions. Nerves from brain and spine go to every tissue in body depends upon health of brain and spine. Asanas and pranayama cause an increase in circulation of blood to brain and spine which stimulates nerve cells. This results in increased vitality and improved nerve functions. Since nerves from spine go to all organs and glands of body , a healthy spine obviously plays an important role in vitality and rejuvenation. When yogasanas are performed , respiration and metabolic rates slow down , consumption of oxygen and body temperature drops. During exercise, however, breath and metabolism speed up oxygen consumption rises, and body gets hot. Yoga postures and breathing exercises tends to arrest catabolism whereas exercises promotes it. In addition , specific yogasanas affects on glands and internal organs, and to alter electrochemical activity in nervous system. Mostly asanas imposed on spine and whole trunk exercises muscles, makes spinal column more flexible and stimulates spinal nerves. It has strong influence on abdominal muscles, alternately stretching and compressing them as body bend or twist from one direction to other. Most of asanas and pranayamas enhances pranic flow in samana region, around neval. Samana region has Manipur chakra, a plexus of major nadies or pranic channels, supplying whole body. On  emotional and psychic levels for Spinal diseases sufferers asanas represents  a mean of managing knots and problems of life.

Yoga philosophy attributes most problems in Spinal diseases due to insufficient life force, either in body as a whole or a blockage of life force localized to one part of body leading to decreases in immunity and increased susceptibility to infections. Yoga emphasized treatment of root cause and not to symptoms. Yogic philosophy and practices have been used for treatment as well as an adjuvant to available therapies in different states of injury. Yoga can efficiently aid to maintain the milieu interior of body. Practice of yoga leads to a state of positive health, attitude and enhanced immunity. There is also better oxygen utility , lesser state of autonomic arousal , with shift of sympathovagal balance towards vagal predominance, increased attention and better sleep. It also reduces anxiety and stress which is very common in chronic Spatients and enhances mood resulting in sense of inner peace and purpose, which has far- reaching health benefits. Many uncertainties and methodological problems, both theoretical and well as practical issues, surround research pertaining to yoga in health and disease.  For many patients life seems complicated and their problem appear to difficult to solve. Yogic asanas and pranayamas give an insight and inspire a systematic approach to untying tangled knots of life.