yoga and arthritis

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam everyone!

 

A few weeks back several people posted about their elderly parents

and arthritis and how doing ky helped several of them. I couldn't

find any details on the kriyas they did though. My sister (who's only

30) has arthritis in her joints (predominantly wrists, knees and

ankles). Even resting her head on the palm of her hand will aggrevate

the arthritis. Are there special sets specifically aimed at

arthritis, or were the other people doing 'general kriyas'? I know

the flexible spine set is great for the spine, but I don't know what

to tell her regarding joints in the limbs. Any advice would be

greatly appreciated.

 

Christa

[Guest guest]

Hi Christa,

 

Gururattan's Relax and Renew page 42 there is a specific exercise within a

kriya,

but I know of no specific kriyas. I believe the yoga in general, works to

lubricate and strengthen the bone and cartilidge. Synovial joint fluid

seems to be important,

also the cartiledge drys with age and the joint areas are not very vascular

(flushed with blood) to begin -- I'm paraphrasing from Life

Extension's "Disease Prevention and Treatment".

 

So just beginning on yoga, and doing it daily will help her condition immensely;

combined with an alternative treament protocol. The protocol I

will send you offline if you like.

 

Blessings

 

Brad

[Guest guest]

My mother seemed to have tried all the yoga exercises

she saw on TV, in getting rid of her arthritis.

I believe that is the best way to go. We need a more

wholesome approach in getting rid of arthritis.

While most of the leg stretches, knee bends and

one-leg

balances will

work on the legs, exercises targeted on the upper body

to reduce overall fat will help to reduce the load on

the legs. I have had ACL knee injury while skiing(

which is snapping the knee ligaments and getting

arthritis the sports way), a couple of years ago.

I recovered on physical therapy and avoided surgery.

I used to do the simple stretches and the knee bends.

Pulling the knee-caps by tensing up the thighs and

relaxing them is an excellent exercise for

strengthening the knees, for anyone. It is not

demanding on an arthritis patient too and can be done

while sitting down with legs stretched.

One-leg stands also help a lot in strengthening

legs. You may look up the tree-pose and difficult-pose

on my webpage at

voth.chem.utah.edu/~gayathri/yoga_poses.html

( BTW, the pic-downloads are very fast now, thanks

very much to Gordon's tips ).

You may also try the simple stretches

which involve knee-bends. Initially, the arthritis

patient might find it difficult and the exercises

can be done in moderation, and the stretches done

SLOOOOOOOOOWLY, to the extent it causes

slight discomfort (but not pain ), and done quite a

few times

over the day to make it more effective. With regular

practise, the knee-bending will become more

convenient.

 

 

gayathri

 

 

 

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