Anyone fire their alternative care provider?

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DebinD
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March 7, 2011 at 10:04 pm

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#2072

Since yoga has been touted to have so very many benefits I was wondering if anyone had found that they needed less care from their chiropractor, acupuncturist, naturopath etc.

connie36
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March 8, 2011 at 1:27 am

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#8420

I haven’t been to my chiropractor since I started Bikram yoga. Not that I was there all the time, but it’s helped a lot.

I also had my orthopedic surgeon telling me I needed another knee surgery – basically let him know when the pain got to be too much and he’d clean it up yet again. And yoga has helped that a great deal too. My knees aren’t 100%, but I’m no longer thinking about surgery again.

DebinD
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March 8, 2011 at 1:31 am

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#8421

Wonderful for you! I love hearing stories like this. I was thinking I needed to see my chiro last week but a couple classes later it seems less urgent.

rebeccakyle
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March 11, 2011 at 12:44 am

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#8432

My Rolfer has been ooooing and ahhhing since I started Bikram yoga last December. I’m not ready to fire her, but we both agree that my Hot Yoga practice is taking my body awareness and conditioning in the right direction, faster.

wladmin99
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April 15, 2012 at 5:27 am

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#9574

I have history of back issues and some issues with neck mobility and range of motion.

I have been seeing a chiropractor for about 10 years pretty regularly…… More often when i needed it and less often when feeling good.

Since I started Hot Yoga about 4 months ago, both back and neck feel much better, and my Chiro mentioned once … “i don’t know what you are doing… But keep doing it!!!

One thing that definitely surprised me is the extreme back bends we do in Bikram style, i would have thought would have CAUSED problems, actually seem to make me feel BETTER – verycounter-intuitive.

I am almost 50, and my back feels better than it did 20 years ago.

Interestingly, some of the stretches and exercises my Athletic Therapist (my chiropractor’s daughter!!!) gave me seem to have origins in some Yoga poses i have come to experience – especially in the Moksha style i have been doing recently.

Peace……..

Andrea.*F.
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April 15, 2012 at 6:44 am

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#9576

Hello Everyone,

It’s wonderful reading your stories! So inspiring and heart-warming.

As we know yoga has many wonders and it does work like magic. It makes you feel great and rejuvenates you inside as well as outside. Makes you look, feel, think and function better. Physical exercise doesn’t get any better than that does it? 😉

At the same time I feel the need to point out something very important and that is: Yoga Does Not Fix Everything. In my case for example, many years of physical activity (including yoga) covered up everything that has been going on in my body – or skeleton to be more precise. Despite my great posture (oh well.. I thought it was great!) it turned out, that I had a mild scoliosis, a reversed neck curve and a bit of subluxation in my lower back. My shoulders and hips are unlevel and there is a slight internal rotation in my right hipbone too 🙂 I remember looking at my X rays thinking: This cannot be me! Good news is that apparently these things are easy to fix. All I have to do is: use a roll under my neck, get adjusted by a chiropractor every now and then and keep practising yoga. 🙂

Yoga can make you look better than ever, therefore you tend to forget about areas that aren’t visible to the naked eye.

A regular practice can and will make incredible improvements in one’s body. Perhaps you won’t need to visit your doctor as often as you did in the past but I wouldn’t recommend not being examined by one, every now and then.

Keep posting your lovely stories! We would love to hear more about your experience.

Namaste,

Andrea
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