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| Hi, I am new to yoga - been practicing for less than one year. I am a 30y/o male with scoliosis and hypermobility. I have never had back pain until about 3 months ago. I was in class and we did janu sirsasana. The instructor pushed down hard on my back and I have had lumbar pain on one side ever since. It hurts even when I am lying down. I feel like yoga has helped me with poor posture but I am extremely discouraged by this injury. Does anyone have experience with this type of injury? Will continuing yoga make it worse? |
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| Dont go to a violent teacher. Have a non-evasive, extremely slow, very very gentle approach,reduce the physical effort of your yoga practice,so sensing and feeling can take over will power and unneccesary parasitic efforts (which numbs your sensitivity,concentration,paying attention to details and communication through mind/body). So you will be safe,develop and improve strength,balance,flexbility,posture and you will be fine and improve. A teacher who pushes you does not understand you,physiology and anatomy to a good level and thus resorts to pushing in a similar way to military fitness (which only aggravates issues such as hypermobility). Use common sense. Good luck! |
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Expert Yogi
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Location: Seattle, Washington | Ctenath.
Injuries are best assessed in person before appropriate guidance is presented. Therefore I can't say what injury you have or whether I've experienced it.
The two disturbing things within your post are a) that you are injured (from yoga) and b) that the injury was facilitated by what I can only call an inappropriate "adjustment". Pushing down on students in forward bends is not a sound methodology for guiding students safely in asana. Add to that a student who has only one year of practice AND is hyper mobile, and has scoliosis...well you get the idea.
But what is done is done and all things for a reason. So we move along.
Consider finding a therapeutically trained yoga teacher with several years of teaching and more than 500 hours of training. Such a teacher could modify your poses and address some of the symptomology you are experiencing. That sort of yoga will not likely "make it worse" but rather better.
Bear in mind that it is only appropriate yoga for you that will make things "better", not any yoga.
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New User
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| Thanks for your advice Vibes and Gordon. Since the injury I have been avoiding any poses that make the back pain worse. Unfortunately I live in a rural area so finding a competent teacher is a challenge. I usually just practice a few poses at home that I feel comfortable with. I'm hoping the pain will gradually go away. |
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| You might want to order yourself a copy of: Back Care Basics: A Doctor's Gentle Yoga Program for Back and Neck Pain Relief by Mary Pullig Schatz. It might keep you going until you find a teacher. |
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