Be wary of practicing yoga that can damage the spine

The joints of the human body have different ranges of motion due to different structures. Some joints can only move in almost one direction, such as the elbow joint and the knee joint; some joints have a larger range of motion, such as the shoulder joint, hip joint, wrist joint, and ankle joint. The range of motion of a joint has a limit, and once this limit is exceeded, damage will be caused to the joint. There is a technique in China Kung Fu called grasping, and one of the important aspects is anti-joint grasping. Once the joint is controlled in the opposite direction, it can easily break if you exert force. This is the effect of external force. You cannot exert excessive force on the joints even if you are self-reliant, especially in the opposite direction. Because the joint structure of humans is extremely precise, it will be damaged if you don't pay attention when exercising yourself.

Many of the popular yoga poses nowadays apply force to the joints in the opposite direction. Yoga claims to be able to exercise and exercise the spine well. In fact, a large number of yoga poses and practice methods can damage the spine and other joints of the human body. Many yoga practitioners suffer damage to the spine, causing spinal injuries and functional aging. In serious cases, it may even cause spinal fractures, damage to nerves, and cause paraplegia.

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Due to structural reasons, the human spine is only suitable for bending forward, but not suitable for bending backward or to both sides. There are a large number of yoga asanas that bend the spine backwards. These asanas can cause the vertebrae to excessively compress the intervertebral discs, damage the intervertebral discs, and cause disc injury and aging.

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In yoga teaching, there is a standard commentary: "Reach the limits of the body", the greater the extent of stretching, twisting, and bending, the better. The yoga pose of bending the spine backwards is an exercise method that violates the structure of the human body. If you force yourself hard under the requirement of "reaching the limits of the body", it will definitely damage the spine.

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Those difficult yoga poses that bend the spine backwards cannot be said to be harmful to the spine. Some simple yoga poses, such as the Cobra pose and the Japanese Prayer, can also cause great damage to the spine when force is exerted backwards on the spine. It is also not suitable for excessive bending of the spine to both sides. For example, similar yoga poses such as wind-blown tree pose and triangular pose can also damage the spine.

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Yoga poses have acute and chronic injuries to the spine. The acute ones are immediately admitted to the hospital. The damage to the spine that occurs from slight to gradual accumulation is difficult to detect at first, but when the pain is obvious, the situation is already very serious. It has been reported that a yoga practitioner was only thirty years old, but his spine had aged to sixty years old due to practicing yoga. This is not an exception. Among yoga practitioners, spinal injury is a common phenomenon, but some people have obvious conditions and some people have mild conditions.

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Some practitioners who are just beginning to come into contact with yoga will feel comfortable after practicing the postures of bending the spine backwards. This comfort is because the damage to the spine is relatively slight when practicing yoga at the beginning, and these yoga poses that bend the spine backwards can move to the stiff back muscles that are usually inactive, so the practitioner will feel comfortable at the beginning. When the practice lasts for a long time and the damage to the spine accumulates, the comfort will turn into pain. (Internship Editor: Lili)