| If you've suffered from tendonitis in the past, it's | | | | stretches. Focus on your breath as you stretch, and |
| depressing when it occurs again. Tendonitis is the | | | | be aware of the movement of your body. Don't do |
| inflammation of a tendon, the material which connects | | | | any stretches which bring on pain. After another week, |
| a muscle to a bone, and it can occur in any part of the | | | | you can begin to do more repetitions of yoga |
| body. Tendonitis is common in your wrist, shoulder, legs | | | | exercises, in order to build up the muscles in the |
| and hips. Yoga may help to prevent recurrences of | | | | affected area. When you build up the strength of the |
| tendonitis. | | | | muscles, they provide more support, and tendonitis is |
| Begin With Gentle, Slow Stretches | | | | less likely to recur. |
| Tendonitis can limit the activities you're able to do, and | | | | While yoga is useful as a complement to conventional |
| in the acute stages is very painful. However, gentle | | | | medical advice and physical therapy, it's not wise to |
| yoga is useful even in the acute phase of tendonitis | | | | begin yoga in the acute stage of tendonitis. Wait until |
| because the yoga stretches help to move your lymph | | | | the inflammation and pain of the acute phase have |
| - the watery fluid which contains white blood cells. | | | | subsided, and then begin some yoga stretching, under |
| Yoga also improves blood circulation, and this | | | | the care of a qualified instructor. Remember to tell |
| enhances the healing ability of your body. | | | | your instructor that you suffer from tendonitis, and ask |
| Yoga Stretches Help To Build Up The Muscles And | | | | for some stretches you can do at home, between |
| Strengthen Them | | | | classes. |
| After the acute phase of the tendonitis inflammation | | | | If you persist with yoga, you may find that months and |
| subsides, in a week, you can begin to do yoga | | | | years pass between your bouts with painful tendonitis. |