Guest guest Posted October 16, 2000 Report Share Posted October 16, 2000 Any suggestions for curing knee pain? I think I did something while trying to get my hands together in pidasana. I've never had any knee problems so I am not familiar with any remedies. Is it possibly the lateral collateral ligament (my pain is on the outside of my knees)? Anyway, it really only aches when getting into the lotus postion or torquing my knees outwards. <br><br>My guess is that I should take it easy but I hate doing that. <br><br>BTW, thanks for all the San Francisco class advice. I ended up going only to the mysore classes at It's Yoga due to its proximity. They were helpful would go to them again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 16, 2000 Report Share Posted October 16, 2000 I've dealt with the exact same pain. It will go away. Try to stretch your hips out more and your knees will take less stress. I normally try to sit up straight and cradle my calf up to my chest for at least ten breaths before trying to do half or full lotus asanas, and it's helped tremendously. If you're taking led classes you'll fall behind a little. Give your ego -- which likes you to do padmasana even though it hurts -- a holiday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 16, 2000 Report Share Posted October 16, 2000 For knee pain open the hips a bit more and that will help. Be sure to go into the posture(s) very very slowly allowing the body to open at its own pace. Be sure that your knees are not "locking" and do a haft lotus instead .... until your knees are ready to open to the full flower (lotus). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 17, 2000 Report Share Posted October 17, 2000 I´ve been told that all pain due to practicing yoga will eventually go away the same way it came about - by practicing yoga. I tend to think of knee pain as a warning message from one`s body telling one to pay more attention to relaxing the hips and also not to advance too fast in the series. <br><br>Yogangel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 17, 2000 Report Share Posted October 17, 2000 I have been instructed to practice anything that hurts the knee with a wash cloth balled up behind the painful knee. (I can't tell you if it works since the pain went away before I tried it.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 17, 2000 Report Share Posted October 17, 2000 There's already been lots of good advice on knees here, such as Guy's message back in July, message #1229 (which I just spent ages looking for - wouldn't it be great if we had a search facility for old messages?)<br><br>I started yoga with an old injury on the outside of my right knee that I'd had for over ten years. Surgery hadn't helped it. Yoga has fixed it completely, although I'm still working through the hip tightness that came from going around with a bad knee for all that time.<br><br>For the last couple of years I've had trouble with injuries on the insides of both knees, caused by pushing too hard to "get" padmasana. When I was in New York in the summer I asked Manju Jois what to do - he said if the problem came from yoga, just keep practicing but be careful.<br><br>Either don't use ibuprofen to deaden the pain so you can practice through it - or if you do, expect lots of controversy if you admit to it here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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