Older women should not follow the trend of yoga

In recent years, yoga has become more and more popular and has become a favorite sport for women of all ages. In particular, some female practitioners around the age of 55 choose yoga due to retirement and other reasons. Zhao Hongpu, deputy director of the Department of Orthopedics at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, believes that yoga is not the most suitable exercise for menopausal women. Due to physical limitations, practitioners of this age group are more likely to injure their muscles and develop ligament strain problems. He suggested that if you don't start practicing yoga until you are older, you don't have to pursue perfection in your movements. Instead, you should pursue the essence of yoga: it is more important to calm your mind and spirit through meditation, deep breathing, etc.

Zhao Hongpu said that from the perspective of orthopedics, women reach a healthy watershed when they reach menopause, because estrogen levels in menopausal women will drop, and estrogen has a good protective effect on bones and cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, women are prone to problems of one kind or another after menopause, typically arthritis, osteoporosis, etc. The flexibility of the body and the stretchability of ligaments also deteriorate, making ligament damage more likely to occur. He said,"Joint degeneration in people's old age is a normal physiological reaction, even a form of self-protection-so that you can no longer exercise heavily, and everyone should follow this rule." (Internship Editor: Lili)