One of the not medicamentous ways of treating spine diseases is yoga. Osteochondrosis, like any other diseases of the motor apparatus, of course, requires complex treatment, but no doctor will argue with the fact that therapeutic gymnastics is the best tool for both treatment and prevention.
With osteochondrosis, yoga exercises perform several functions:
- Relaxation of the muscles - some back muscles (depending on the type of osteochondrosis) become clamped, immobile and painful. They are disturbed nutrition, blood supply, and jammed nerves, which leads to acute pain. Yoga exercises with osteochondrosis help to relax these muscles.
- Stretching of the spine - actually, this is the very treatment of osteochondrosis by yoga. With osteochondrosis, the distance between the intervertebral discs decreases, which results in a subsequent degradation of the structure of the discs (hernia). With the help of yoga, we increase the distance between the disks.
- Strengthening - yoga, as a kind of physical activity, trains our muscles. Exercises of yoga for osteochondrosis perform a preventive function, since a strengthened muscle corset will relieve the load from the spine and prevent relapses.
Exercises
We suggest you perform a complex of yoga against cervical osteochondrosis.
- All exercises of yoga for the treatment of osteochondrosis of the neck we will perform sitting on the floor on the heels. We turn the head to the shoulder, look with your eyes behind your back, fix your eyes, try to place your chin as far as possible over your shoulder, while the line of the spine and neck should be preserved (the neck does not move forward or to the left). Hands help - we rest on the floor with the tips of our fingers, we pull the spine behind the vertex. Keep the position in each side for 2 minutes. It is necessary to fix the sight - this, among other things, also improves the vision.
- Put your hands on your knees, turn your head to the center, lower your chin on your chest. We feel, how muscles of a neck are tightened, thus watch that the back was not rounded.
- We return the head to the center, put a hand on the head, and with the weight of the hand lying on the head, we lower the head on the shoulder with the ear. The second hand pulls us in the opposite direction. Thus, stretch the spine and the lateral surface of the neck.
- We return to the center, put the hand on the other side and repeat the stretching of the neck muscles on the other side.
- The chin is lowered to the chest, by locking with two hands, lowering the head under the weight of the hands down. We feel how the cervical vertebrae rounds and stretches the muscles of the neck. Perform the rounding of the entire back: first the cervical region, then the thoracic, and round the lower back. Elbows try to pull to the stomach, and the head is attracted to the pelvis. That is, we pull it not down, but round, dipping, inward, to the stomach. Having lowered on a maximum, we fix a position and deeply we breathe.
- Slowly rise, slightly tilting his head back. We try to let it relax, without tension of muscles. Hands on the floor. We stretch our head upward with the forehead and chin area. Lengthen this way the spine.