Why can't you practice yoga?

In today's society, our bodies often experience unusual symptoms, mainly because environmental problems are becoming more and more serious. Our living conditions have improved, and we often don't pay too much attention to many details. Sometimes small problems in the body can lead to big diseases. Let’s take a brief look at the situations in which you should not practice yoga.

First, middle-aged and elderly people. After entering middle age, ligaments and joints degenerate, and muscles become stiffer. Without strong muscle protection and support, forcing oneself to practice difficult yoga moves is undoubtedly a huge "challenge" for the already fragile cervical vertebrae and spine, and can easily lead to muscle strain and vertebral dislocation. Unless you have been practicing yoga since childhood and have good body flexibility.

Second, patients who already have osteoporosis. Especially women with severe osteoporosis. Due to the decrease in bone hardness and increase in brittleness, if you are not careful when practicing yoga, you may suffer from compression fractures or vertebral ruptures.

Third, patients with cervical and lumbar spine diseases. If you practice certain yoga movements, such as the plow pose, it can easily cause a herniated disc or make the original condition worse.

Fourth, patients with cardiovascular disease or obesity. If the movements are strenuous, such as doing a handstand, it is likely to increase the burden on the heart and cause discomfort.

Yoga is a very good exercise to relax the body and mind. For the spine, moderate yoga practice can relax and stretch the muscles, enhance the toughness of muscle ligaments, and thus stabilize the spinal joints. In this sense, yoga has a certain spinal protective effect.

It is worth pointing out that there are a large number of yoga poses that bend the spine forward and backward. If these bends exceed a certain degree, the vertebrae will cause excessive compression of the intervertebral discs, damaging the intervertebral discs and causing them to degenerate faster or even protrude. Experts say that yoga is not suitable for everyone, especially for beginners who have never been exposed to yoga and some middle-aged and elderly people. When they first start practicing, if they are not careful, they may cause damage to the spine and aggravate cervical and lumbar spine diseases.

The above is a relatively simple answer to the question of why you should not practice yoga. Many times we need to maintain good living and eating habits in our daily lives, not smoke or drink, and to maintain a good body we also need to insist on moderate exercise. A proper diet is particularly important.