How Yoga Helps To Relieve Knee Pain?
Knee bursitis, rupture ligament, torn cartilage, bone
degeneration, use of drugs like steroids, diuretics are few of the important
factors that lead to knee pain.
1. Research conducted by investigators of Duke
University Medical Center concluded that yoga poses are helpful in
managing bone and joint conditions caused by osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia and
other chronic inflammatory disorders.
2. Yoga (especially the standing poses) provides powerful
and effective means for strengthening and stabilizing your knees. This is
helpful to overcome structural imbalances that might otherwise lead to chronic
wear and tear in your knees.
3. Yoga also helps in stretching and strengthening the
surrounding knee muscles. The gentle stretches helps in promoting natural
healing process to alleviate medical, surgical and traumatic conditions of
lower limbs
4. Since, most of the inflammatory and infectious conditions
of the knee joint are caused by toxins and inflammatory mediators. Controlled
breathing during yoga helps in decreasing the production of toxins.
5. Relaxing and stretching the inflamed tissues gently that
helps in promoting circulation, thereby promoting knee pain relief.
Basic Yoga Postures For Joints
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| Veerbhadrasana (Warrior pose) |
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| Dhanurasana (Bow pose) |
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| Setu Bandhasana (Bridge pose) |
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| Trikonasana (Triangle pose) |
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| Ustrasana (Camel pose) |
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| Makara Adho Mukha Svanasana (Dolphin Plank pose) |
