Did you know that yoga can relieve your aches and pains? Through the controlled movements of yoga, muscle and body tensions can be removed. Yoga strengthens weak muscles, creates space in one's joints, increases flexibility, improves oxygenation to body tissue, which all combined can prevent future injuries or regular pains from occurring.
In 2005, a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that a yoga program was more effective in treating lower back pain than another exercise regimen.
There are specific movements and poses designed to alleviate specific pains in the body. Here are just some of the pains that yoga can relieve:
- · Rheumatoid Arthritis
- · Menstrual cramps
- · Neck pain
- · Back pain
- · Muscle pain
- · Joint pain
- · Shoulder pain
- · Headaches
Yoga is also used as physical therapy in the recovery stage of more serious injuries. This includes joints, ligaments, muscles and tendons. After a serious injury yoga is used to gently restore strength to weak muscles, and restore normal body movement and functions.
If you are experiencing a specific pain, be sure to tell your yoga instructor. Your yoga teacher can tell you which poses to avoid, modify, or increase in order to strategically stretch, strengthen, and align the body to return to its optimum state.
Listen to your body. Namaste.
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