What Should You Keep in Mind While Doing Yoga with Scoliosis?

Yes, but the kind of poses you can do depends on your age, the severity of your condition (degree of spinal curvature), how much pain you experience, and how long you have had scoliosis.

Therefore, it is good to discuss with a yoga practitioner to determine the best yoga poses for your scoliosis.

Scoliosis can impact the alignment of your shoulders, hips, and ribcage, depending on the location and extent of your spinal curvature.

However, practicing yoga can help enhance your spinal alignment and functionality, thus improving your posture.

Yoga is mostly recommended as a part of the treatment for scoliosis because of its remarkable benefits.

While helping to have a properly aligned spine, yoga can help manage the pain and other consequences resulting from scoliosis.

All you need to do is practice yoga and enjoy these benefits

• Minimize Stiffness and Pain
Yoga poses (long, isometric contractions) can activate spinal and abdominal muscles, reducing your back pain and stiffness.

• Strengthen Your Core and Spinal Muscles
Your muscles extend and contract when practicing yoga. Stretching the spinal and core muscles can help strengthen them, promoting healthy spine alignment that improves flexibility and mobility.

• Improve Breath Control
Scoliosis can cause breathing problems in some people. However, practicing breathing exercises provides oxygen to the muscles, thus reducing pain and stress while easing your breathing.

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• Participate in Private Sessions
It is good to participate in private yoga sessions under the guidance of a skilled yoga instructor before participating in public classes. They will consider your unique situation and teach you the appropriate therapeutic exercises accordingly.

• Practice Regularly
Regular yoga practice can help you improve your body’s symmetry, thus improving your confidence and self-esteem as well as your posture and overall wellness.

• Avoid Complicated Poses
Some yoga poses like inversion poses tend to cause pain and discomfort as they put pressure on the thoracic spine. Therefore, avoid such poses.

• Don’t Go Beyond Your Flexibility Level
Do not stress your body by practicing strenuous/intense yoga poses, especially if you are a beginner. Also, you must have realistic expectations concerning how a pose should look and feel. Though some poses may be difficult to achieve in the beginning, you can do them perfectly with time and practice.

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