Monday, May 21, 2012

The yoga teaching, protects the knee

Heard before yoga students, who dismissed the practice, because they experienced knee pain in a complex position is not uncommon. At the same time, it is not often encountered enthusiastic students, they noted that they had experienced knee pain began to practice yoga treatment and actual treatment. As these two contradictory ideas, people may not know what truth is.

Like the things in life, the truth about yoga, and knees, is both simple and complex. It is only a number of yoga asana (posture) place the knee strain, and the correct form, can lead to knee pain or injury. Good therapeutic yoga classes can effectively end years of knee pain and weakness, it is also true.

This is the complexity comes from: the right to practice yoga, can be difficult, because many students are often complex and challenging. Padmasana (Lotus Pose) looks easy, but from a chair sitting in the culture of adults trying to enter the posture may result in injury to the knee or hip. For this reason, a new yoga instructor should be aware that students can better work with the Ardha Padmasana (half lotus posture) as a warm-up and Padmasana. The students try the Padmasana life is possible, and can not grasp this position. Rather than obstruct our students, half-lotus or Sukasana (easy posture) is a feasible solution.

Yoga how to protect the knee?

The knee injury occurred. Under normal circumstances, the knee pain is a torn or strained ligament or a wear under the crescent moon, which is to the movement and influence activity in the padding and cushion the knee cartilage. Knee pain can also be caused by osteoarthritis of the knee or patella dislocation.

In many cases, these knee injuries related sudden injury (car accident, sports related injuries, etc.), or muscle imbalance. Muscle imbalance, quadriceps, in their own strength, more than compensate for the weaker hamstrings, may lead to excessive rotation of the knee, resulting in pain and tears, the higher the risk of sprains, over time, and osteoarthritis.

Therapeutic yoga knee protection, strengthen the knee and the other, which helps in the correct alignment of the knee and a more equal distribution of muscle strength, balance and stability muscles.

Yoga teaching skills in order to protect the knee

A. In order to avoid a knee injury, in some of the risks inherent in yoga instructor must be emphasized that the students can not force yourself to high-risk constitutes the strain of the knee. Under normal circumstances, that requires flexibility, need time to get the students need to be reminded that this is a fast progress, rather than lies in patience and practice.

Two. Yoga students to recover from a knee injury, posture posture should also avoid sudden movements, especially in complex composition may result in the rapid transition of personal injury.

3. Yoga teachers should be emphasized that, some stretching feeling is to enhance the flexibility, but practitioners should be backed up, if the knee pain is kindled, regardless of perceived level of expertise.

4. The legs should be thoroughly warm up and stretch before the launch of a student into a posture, (and Padmasana), it can be placed on the knee pressure. Yoga instructor should be considered to constitute modified with persistent knee pain, illness or injured students.

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