Yoga - although an unconventional method of treating scoliosis , but with the right approach, is very effective. Yoga can be practiced in scoliosis with scoliosis 1 and 2 degrees, combining exercises with exercise therapy. Obligatory requirement - the technique of performing exercises should show a physician rehabilitologist, who understands, at the same time, and in yoga, as a system, against scoliosis. Each case of scoliosis is individual, because everything depends on the degree of curvature and accompanying indications (for example, fused vertebrae).
The benefits of yoga in scoliosis
Treatment of scoliosis with yoga is effective at any age, but, of course, in the case of children, the spine will be much easier to fix. At the same time, yoga softens even the ossified adult vertebral column, allowing it to develop its curvature. With the help of yoga exercises, the spinal muscles are strengthened from scoliosis, a spasm is removed from them, which causes a feeling of pain with fatigue and stress. Of course, the progression of scoliosis is suspended, which is inevitable in the absence of treatment.
Exercises
The complex of yoga exercises for the treatment of scoliosis should be performed very carefully, fighting with mild pain, but stopping and relaxing in tadasana, when the pain becomes unbearable.
- Tadasana - we stretch the spine higher and higher, feeling that you are being dragged up the top of the head, and the hands and feet - like the roots of a tree - are dragged down.
- Veraphadrasana - legs are bred as widely as possible, hands are lifted up and connected. Back stretch upward, turn to the right and bend the right leg at a right angle. The knee does not protrude at the toe, the foot of the hindleg looks forward at an angle of 45⁰. In this pose, we try to stretch our forces upwards. The position is retained for 1 minute, so that the muscles of the back can "remember" this stretch.
- After that, we return to tadasana and stretch out the top of the head.
- Then we leave to the veraphadrasana to the left. If possible, try to bend back the back, keep the position for 1 minute.
- We approach the wall and plant wide legs. Hands raise up to the level of the shoulders, we touch the wall with the back, we turn our legs in the socks to the right, we bend our right hand down to the leg, the left one is pulled upward. The head turns around, the eyes are fixed in the palm of your hand. We leave in tadasana and stretch the spine, then we perform the pose on the other side.
- Turn around facing the wall. We raise the legs, turn the stops to the left, stretch our right hand to the left foot, raise our left arm back. Look at the left palm.
- Tadasana - stretch the posture (perform between each standing asana).
- Feet wider, parallel to each other. We bend back, then bend over with a bent back, knees straight. It is necessary to strive to put your head on the floor with your forehead.
- Lay down on the floor - locust pose. At the same time, we lift our arms and legs up and hold a minute.
- Badhakanasana - the position of a butterfly. As close as possible, we move our heels to ourselves, we pull our knees to the floor, our backs are bent. We try to lower the stomach as low as possible.