How You Can Injure Yourself in Yoga

Yoga is a thousand year or more discipline 30 million people on this planet have gotten into. (Dr. Axe: 9 Common Poses Most Likely to Trigger Yoga Injuries, Plus How to Overcome & Avoid Them) However, it is easy to get injured while doing yoga, and this article is about why. I injured myself by pivoting my foot the wrong way while doing a left lunge. That movement caused me to fracture my tibia at the knee. Low calcium did not help the situation as I wasn’t on a calcium supplement at the time, which made me often wonder why I felt tired when I worked out a lot—tired instead of energized, that is. I also dislocated my entire kneecap in that movement. I pivoted my foot to the left. I really shouldn’t have done that.

While yoga is great for anxiety, the many injuries you can receive is a risky business. This is why paying attention to your instructor is important. At one point, I had thought about becoming a yoga instructor. But now I’m rather scared of the work involved, and if I might ever get injured again. Yoga does improve flexibility while at the same time, it teaches you to overcome anxiety by using the breath.

Many yoga injuries have been studied by now but my knee had a preexisting condition where I had dislocated part of it while at San Francisco State and I had done this lifting a shopping cart with my leg, which is why I have a sensitivity now. I wasn’t watching what I was doing while having a nasty low blood sugar of 50 mg/dl. There are nine injuries I know about from reading online about why they happen. It is important not to injure yourself in yoga class because this can impact your quality of life. Shoulder stands do things like decrease your heart rate, but it can also crush your neck causing pain as well as vertebrae problems.

While yoga can fix scoliosis problems, it can also cause pain. The headstand move is also quite dangerous because there is a chance of falling as well as throwing out your back. Downward facing dog, forearm plank, and dolphin pose. If you elevate your feet against the wall, while at the same time lying on your back, this is the least difficult way of doing a headstand. Backbends with chronic injury is a bad idea and ought to be avoided altogether.

Sitting on your heels can cause the sciatic nerve to be in pain. Each yoga pose, no matter what it is, has to be done with great care or you risk a popped rib among other things. Avoiding yoga injury means gently stretching yourself before the practice is engaged. Muscle training can help weakness in your body, wherever that may be present. I wasn’t a yoga beginner by the time I had injured myself. I had started practicing in 2006, so by 2016 I was a 10-year yoga veteran since I’ve been to yoga schools, and had a regular class at the YMCA.

I want to learn major styles except for Bikram, which is hot yoga that could make me sick. Yoga props for support are something I have always used from yoga blocks or straps, and blankets or even a wall or chair. My left lunge was not as healthy as this article cited below claims it is supposed to be. Chair pose may or may not be safe but I have used this move in martial arts class as well. Breathing exercises, however, also called Pranayama, are considered safe, and I agree with this. These exercises warm up the body as well as calm stress. I have used these in the dentist’s chair when I’m getting x-rayed.

Works Cited

https://draxe.com/yoga-injuries-plus-overcome-avoid/