Video: Yoga for Your Pain
June 26, 2008 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
If you have chronic pain, yoga may not have crossed your mind as a tool for managing your pain. There have been studies that look at the impact of relaxation and yoga techniques and their effects on pain.
Have you ever tried yoga? If so, has it helped? If not, why not?
Here is a video on how yoga can have an effect on chronic pain. Just click on the TV screen below:
Image: iStock
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I’ve found the camel pose is good for a migraine.
I don’t do yoga (anymore) since many of the inverted poses are bad for my head. I do, however, do tai chi, which I find “gentler” than yoga.
Be well,
MJ
I am a certified yoga and pilates instructor. I personally suffered from soft tissue damage and neck injuries when a semi truck hit my mini van five years ago. I thought i would never teach again. But the opposite happened. I continued to practice yoga and eventually i became 100% recovered. I just do a very basic hatha yoga practice that is very mindful and medatative. I am just amazed at the benefits i have reaped from doing yoga. I often get participants in my class that will say after class, “i had the worst headache when i came to class today and now its gone.” They are simply amazed and thrilled. I hear the praises of yoga on a daily basis in regards to health and stress reduction.