Yoga for Injury Rehabilitation
Yoga can be anything you want it to be. In our business we focus on yoga as an isolated sports stretching technique. The intricate stretches yoga offers provide us with tools to help you rehab more quickly and improve your mobility. Andrea is a great therapist to book with for yoga instruction incorporated into her sessions.
Yoga is often recommended for rehabilitating soft tissue injuries because it can help to improve flexibility, strength and range of motion. This is one of the few recovery practices that can do so from the comfort of your own home. Yoga has also been shown to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and lower blood pressure.
Yoga is a low impact activity that increases blood flow, strengthens our muscles, improves the quality of our tendons and aids in the performance of almost any other sport or activity. How could it not?
What are the different types of yoga?
- Power Yoga: Power yoga is athletic and vigorous. It emphasizes strength, flexibility and cardio endurance. It is often practiced in a heated rooms and involves a series of flowing sequences and challenging postures.
- Ashtanga Yoga: This too is a physically demanding practice. The difference is, Ashtanga follows a set sequence of poses performed in a flowing and dynamic manner. It emphasizes strength, flexibility and endurance. It is also often practiced in heated rooms.
- Bikram Yoga: This is the original hot yoga and involves a series of 26 postures and two breathing exercises. It is also designed to improve strength, flexibility and balance.
- Vinyasa Yoga: This is another practice that emphasizes strength, flexibility and endurance. Vinyasa can be more or less demanding dependent upon the instructor.
If you’re looking for a yoga practice that focuses more on the physical portions of yoga and less on the spirituality or mindfulness practices that some studios or instructors offer. Check into one of the four we mentioned above.
We hope this article helps you get in touch with a type of yoga that works for you. We have seen people get completely out of back pain, knee pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, wrist and elbow pain, ect. Just by incorporating 1-2 yoga sessions a week for 3-12 months.
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