Threw my back out sneezing, as mentioned above, during a time in my life I was doing heated yoga 2-3 nights a week!
ya, yoga is dope and I credit 12 years of practice/study as well as 500+hrs of teacher training with helping restore my body to a healthy level of functioning but I can't get behind the general yoga cure all thing. All bodies are vastly different and require different supports and asana instruction for it to be truly beneficial. but I'm not gonna knock anyones experience, I just feel that while there is some sort of physical yoga that everyone can practice, it's not so cut and dry. I think a lot of us older skaters with janky bodies need to be working with restorative yoga in that sense that it's literally the practice of restoring bodily health, before messing around with all the standing asana practice. yoga is always going to be here, might as well work it slow and with intention. just my 2cents.
I was gonna comment on lower back issues and ask if any of y'all with low back, hip, thigh, knee issues, and unexplained limps are familiar with the psoas major muscles? They're these long, very deep (deepest core muscles) muscles that start around Thoracic 5 and connect down the lumbar spine, wrap over the hip/pelvis, joins the illiacus in your groin and connects at the femur. The psoas allow you to walk, lift your legs, bend at the waist, stabilize the core while sitting and standing.
Psoas conditions manifest in many different ways, it can appear that your legs are different lengths. A tight side pulls your pelvis forward, causing internal rotation of the knee which can only cause the foot to rotate externally to keep balance. How many of us have that big external ankle rotation on our pop/push foot? When the psoas is locked short/tight, the femur gets fixed in place inside the ball of the hip, subsequently making one leg seem shorter than the other, causing a slight limp, and freezes pelvic mobility. A tight psoas can coexist with but also mimic so many other issues, especially herniations, sciatica, and knee problems.
If you think this applies, an interesting way to take a gander is to stand naturally in front of a mirror, without a shirt on. Pay attention to your waist/hips and try to notice if one is further forward than the other. In my case, my right hip tends to pull forward, almost lifting the foot from the floor. I've spent a lot of time working on getting it back to an anatomical baseline and it's been a great success.
There are exercises for supposedly strengthening the psoas, but it's important to release the psoas first. I had told some pals I'd make a foot care yoga video and a back care one and they're one the way, but I can throw up a super quick video for psoas nerve glides that I've already made, tomorrow if anyone thinks it's relevant. True nerve glides are super easy and take less than 5 minutes per day.
but ya, the stupidest thing I've done to throw my back out was wearing bad shoes/boots.
Topic: Throwing your back out doing stupid stuff (Read 1910 times)