Yoga Therapy for Arthritis – Aging and Stress

Is aging, arthritis and stress causing you problems? You need Yoga therapy. Arthritis is a natural aging process. Just as your skin gets wrinkled, your hair turns grey, your teeth get loose and start to fall off, or your arteries get hard. With today’s life style you see a lot of these aging processes accelerating. This leads to premature greying or baldness or premature atherosclerosis with coronary artery disease. This, in turn leads to heart attacks in young people, so on and so forth. Likewise even your joints could show signs of premature aging. A life that has been fraught with stress changes the inside environment for gene expression. Subsequently, the genetic program that decides the rate of aging gets upset. So, a fast aging process emanating from stress is the result of an altered rate of cell destruction and regeneration.

Yoga therapy for Arthritis mainly deals with the aging and stress related process. Here is a simple technique that will help you deal with arthritis, if done repeatedly and regularly.

PRACTICE

• Raise your right thigh and take your right knee up to a 90° angle.
• Support your thigh with your hands (fingers interlocked) and keep your right leg parallel to the ground.
• Next, turn your right lower leg around your knee joint 5 times. Do this both clockwise and anti-clockwise breathing normally.
• Lower your right leg back down on the floor and do the same exercise with your left leg.

Note

• As you rotate your leg, let the part below your knee to hang freely
• This exercise can even be done sitting in a chair or at the edge of a bed.
• By continuously and regularly practising Knee rotation, you suffer no risk of injuring your knee joint. Subsequently, Arthritis is taken care of.