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Pain issues and injuries in yoga

May 30, 2019

This page is all about trying to understand the things that can help prevent or reduce the risk of getting an injury or pain and what to do if you get one. It’s not just about being broken but also about good ways of practicing, engaging, aligning and balancing. Lots of these posts have been spread across the website so hopefully with everything in one place you can learn and research what will be useful for you. It’s fair to…

Strength & Stability for Yoga: Hamstrings and Glutes (Episode 4)

April 20, 2019

Tracey Mansell

We often talk in the yoga about the need to strengthen the hamstrings in order to guard against sit bone pain and hamstring injury. In this video Tracey demonstrates some simple strengthening exercises using a band.

Yoga Therapy for Hamstring Injuries

April 28, 2015

monica gauci

If you’ve ever had an injury at your hamstring injury, you will know about it! You’ll go from comfortable forward bending one day to dramatically restricted, often painful forward bends the next day. This injury occurs where the tendon of the hamstring muscle knits into the membranous lining of the bone, the periosteum. In this case it is where the periosteum covers the ischial tuberosity or sit-bone. Often this is not a tear of the tendon itself but an avulsion, where the periosteum has been pulled or torn away from the bone.

Sitbone Pain from Yoga Asana

March 28, 2014

Jenni Crowther

Unfortunately enough yoga practitioners suffer from sitbone pain that it has been nicknamed ‘yoga butt’. We may more correctly refer to this condition as ‘proximal hamstring tendon injury’.The length of time that it may take to heal and the way it will influence your physical practice make it a concern for both new and experienced practitioners.

Got Sit Bone Pain? – What to do with that hamstring

May 31, 2013

David Keil

I was in the DC area this month and saw a student that I knew from a previous workshop. At that time Patricia had recently “pulled a hamstring”. Her major symptom was pain at her sit bone (ischial tuberosity) when folding forward, secondary was that it would also hurt when sitting for long periods, especially in the car. I saw her just a couple of weeks ago and she still had the same pain.

Hip and Hamstring Flexibility

March 11, 2013

Niki Vetten

Hamstrings and hips get a lot of stretching in yoga, because everyone wants to do Hanumanasana, and also get their feet behind their heads, preferably both feet at the same time. For many, this will never happen, precisely because they try so hard and focus only on one set of muscles without understanding the interlinking between the muscles of the hips, legs and lower back. Please refer to Lower Back Pain: Some Yoga-Related Causes for an explanation of these relationships.…

‘Yoga Butt’ Injury

March 11, 2013

Niki Vetten

‘Yoga Butt’ is a term for a range of symptoms frequently experienced in Ashtanga and other forms of Vinyasa or Power yoga after a few months of regular practice. It often starts as Pain or discomfort at either of the Ischial Tuberosities (sit-bones) Discomfort in all forward bending and a feeling that the hamstring won’t stretch Inflexibility or pain in Kurmasana and Supta Konasana. Yogis with these symptoms might then tear a Hamstring, but even if they don’t force the…

Hamstring Injury, Sciatica and Sacroiliac Pain in Yoga

March 10, 2013

Niki Vetten

There are three muscles in the legs that are collectively referred to as the Hamstrings – the Biceps Femoris, Semitendinosus and Semimembranosus. All three Hamstrings attach to the Ischial Tuberosity of the pelvis – the sit-bone. At the knee, the Biceps Femoris attaches to the outside of the Femur and the knee and the Semitendinosus and Semimembranosus together are attached to the inside of the knee. The Hamstrings can be visualized as forming a tripod with the knee as the…

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Hamstring injury

Pain issues and injuries in yoga

Strength & Stability for Yoga: Hamstrings and Glutes (Episode 4)

Yoga Therapy for Hamstring Injuries

Sitbone Pain from Yoga Asana

Got Sit Bone Pain? – What to do with that hamstring

Hip and Hamstring Flexibility

‘Yoga Butt’ Injury

Hamstring Injury, Sciatica and Sacroiliac Pain in Yoga

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