Our knees are a vital part of our anatomy. As the largest and most complicated of our joints, they carry the weight of our body, day in and day out. Strong, flexible knees enable us to be move fully and easily. If our knees become stiff or painful, our mobility and well-being is greatly impaired. As the years go by, the knees are often one of the first parts of the body to have problems. Degenerative arthritis is a common affliction. However, yoga poses that stretch the legs and target the tendons and muscles around the knees can provide relief in many cases. (Always first check with your medical adviser first...).
Just the other day while driving to a PTA meeting, my neighbor (and mother of one of my son's best friends) said that she had started having knee problems recently which her husband attributed to her passing the half-century mark. (Bah humbug, I say...!) However, on Sundays she hosts a yoga instructor at her home and started learning poses that helped the knees and in her words, it was a "miracle" what resulted from those yoga poses! Relief from her knee pain!
I have had a similar recent experience with my knees because (hold your breath - I am revealing a deep dark secret!..), at the moment I have some fairly advanced bunions (and ugly as all get-out, sheesh!) resulting from my flat feet pronating over the years. If I don't wear those annoying orthotics (which means I can wear very few cute shoes and definitely not heels!), the bunions throw my ankles and knees out of alignment causing discomfort. I too, have relied on yoga to give my knees and ankles relief! The hero pose (aka Japanese sitting position), the plough, and the backward bend on the knees have helped me enormously when I have neglected to wear those orthotics. (Tsk, tsk...) As Dr. Timothy McCall says in his wonderful book, Yoga as Medicine, "Yoga is well particularly well suited to help prevent or minimize the erosion of cartilage that causes the join pain of osteoarthritis, and to create greater ease of movement and decrease pain within joints that have already sustained such damage...Misalignment of bones, dysfunctional movement patterns, lack of body awareness, poor posture...all of them are problems that yoga can help correct." So do you have knee problems? Go roll out that yoga mat and get started with yoga right now!
Yours for strong, flexible knees with yoga,
Laura Venecia Rodriguez
This is really helpful helpful blog..Not nly u even we are disappointed about the Yoga and their benefits. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyr_KC2dbao I think even small kids have to follow yoga in their home due to unbalanced ingredients of Nutrition and make them fit...
Posted by: Health Fitness | April 12, 2011 at 08:37 AM
Thank you. And, why does this youtube video pop up after so many of these comments?
Posted by: Laura Rodriguez | April 12, 2011 at 06:54 PM