Pinched cervical nerve for second time

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It is about my injure, is the second time in this year I hurt my neck

doing sarvangasana deeper that I could. The first time i hurt

(november 2002) i felt the pain in the upper back, the shoulder and

sometimes to the elbow or the hand (in the same side, the left one).

Now i know that it is a pinched cervical nerve or cervical

radiculopathy. The first time I had to stop doing the inverse asanas

specially sirsasana and sarvangasana, also some times i do setu

bandasana insted o urdva danurasana (where the cervical zone is been

pressing against the floor and between then), and I think that was

the most damage asana for my neck the other day.

I just want to ask for any advice because now in the beginning of the

injure (when the pain is stronger but the injure can easylly stop

with care) I can't do any open movement with my left waist scapula

(shoulder,clavicula and cervical zone), that means I can't do

vinyasas to change the poses and the trird and the fifth vinyasas of

surya namaskar, and of course, all the movements of the neck must be

doing very carefully and slow.

So if anyone is living or had lived this injured can tell me

something about the modifications of the practice and how to do safer

practice instead of feel fear from it.

Also I'd like to help someone who feels similar pain, to tink about

this and to save time visiting doctors or similar: i went fo

phisioteraphy and to the doctor (during four mounths), but they

though It come from muscles back problems and in the x-rays don't see

anything in my vertebras. At the end I decided to rest with any

inverse asanas for a while. And after that the pain disappear, that

was in June 2003.

I hear that a person who has problems with his body is a better

teacher that the person who everything is ok, the first one can

understand the limits and the problems of others...

Thanks anybody, and sorry for the english Soy español.

Hasta pronto

Óscar Montero