Chronic lower back issue! Back 'goes out' sometimes when I put my head on knee

Hi Kari

That’s quite the recurring problem. Let’s see what we can come up with!

A few questions for you:

How many times have you been going per week (religiously!) for those 10 years?

Do you attend at a studio that recites the dialog?

Are you saying that it’s always just this particular pose(s)?

Are there any hints that something’s niggly in any other pose?

Where in your back does it ‘go out’?

Do you get any warning?  or intuition that it’s going to happen?

Is there a particular side that it occurs? First side or second side?

What are you doing exactly when it happens in Standing Head to Knee?

Is there anything that you do or feel that you can associate with this issue outside of the yoga room?

When you have this issue – like now – and you find it difficult to walk, can you please describe where the difficulties are in your body?

What other activities are not available to you when your back goes out?

And when you can’t walk, are you able to stand? Move? Walk at all? And where does your back hurt?

Please try to be as specific as you possibly can.

Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂