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Marian S. Garfinkel, associate professor and advocate of yoga for healing, dies at 88

Marian Garfinkel, an early U.S. researcher who showed yoga could be used as a treatment for osteoarthritis of the hands and other rheumatic diseases, died Friday Aug. 28. She was 88.

Marian S. Garfinkel was a yoga teacher and advocate who held a doctorate in health education. She produced academic studies showing that yoga could be used to treat pain resulting from hand injuries and osteoarthritis.
Marian S. Garfinkel was a yoga teacher and advocate who held a doctorate in health education. She produced academic studies showing that yoga could be used to treat pain resulting from hand injuries and osteoarthritis.Read moreCourtesy the Garfinkel family