If youve been diagnosed withspinal arthritis, your healthcare provider or physical therapist may have given you anexercise program.
Generally, this involves doing range-of-motion and strengthening exercises several times per day to help you manage symptoms.
If thats you, you might consider trying yoga in addition to your basic routine.
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“You also want to be sure you are not working in pain,” she adds.
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to get to achieve this, Turczan advises the strategic use of pillows and bolsters.
Yoga Poses for Spinal Arthritis
A supported version ofchilds poseis the first exercise Turczan recommends.
Legs up the wall is another therapeutic pose that Turczan recommends.
Be sure to keep the bolster parallel with the wall, as well.
This pose may also help open yourfacet joints, Turczan adds.
Turczan says she recommends it because it takes your spine through flexion and extension movements without adding a twist.
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