Tendonitis Help From Gentle Yoga: Stretch And Strengthen Your Tendons

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Tendonitis Help From Gentle Yoga: Stretch And Strengthen Your Tendons

Friday, May 4th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you’ve suffered from tendonitis in the past, it’s depressing when it occurs again. Tendonitis is the inflammation of a tendon, the material which connects a muscle to a bone, and it can occur in any part of the body. Tendonitis is common in your wrist, shoulder, legs and hips. Yoga may help to prevent recurrences of tendonitis.

Begin With Gentle, Slow Stretches

Tendonitis can limit the activities you’re able to do, and in the acute stages is very painful. However, gentle yoga is useful even in the acute phase of tendonitis because the yoga stretches help to move your lymph - the watery fluid which contains white blood cells. Yoga also improves blood circulation, and this enhances the healing ability of your body.

Yoga Stretches Help To Build Up The Muscles And Strengthen Them

After the acute phase of the tendonitis inflammation subsides, in a week, you can begin to do yoga stretches. Focus on your breath as you stretch, and be aware of the movement of your body. Don’t do any stretches which bring on pain. After another week, you can begin to do more repetitions of yoga exercises, in order to build up the muscles in the affected area. When you build up the strength of the muscles, they provide more support, and tendonitis is less likely to recur.

While yoga is useful as a complement to conventional medical advice and physical therapy, it’s not wise to begin yoga in the acute stage of tendonitis. Wait until the inflammation and pain of the acute phase have subsided, and then begin some yoga stretching, under the care of a qualified instructor. Remember to tell your instructor that you suffer from tendonitis, and ask for some stretches you can do at home, between classes.

If you persist with yoga, you may find that months and years pass between your bouts with painful tendonitis. Visit Easy Fab Yoga for more information on yoga.