I don't know whether to call the article deliberately misleading or simply accuse the author of lack of thought, really. I actually read a much more balanced article drawing attention to this same issue three, maybe four years ago - it might have been in Maclean's? It was in some magazine my parents used to get, anyway.
Yes - yoga can definitely get you into positions (literally) that are more vulnerable to potential issues and injuries than ones from other body-training. Which is why when I do recommend it for friends it's with huge caveats of "go to good classes first, and here's how to tell if the class-leader is not a safe one." (They may be WONDERFUL PEOPLE, but not safe yoga teachers).
But I also come at yoga from a childhood and adolescence of competitive dance wherein I danced with girls so flexible that various important things in their hips would occasionally wind up in the wrong position around the bone. And people danced on broken feet and with broken ribs and with knee braces. So, you know. Only 46 ER visits out of tens of millions of people doing it? We had three ER visits in one year from a hundred and fifty people in a dance studio. :P Come back when your numbers are REALLY scary.
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Date: 2012-01-10 11:50 pm (UTC)Yes - yoga can definitely get you into positions (literally) that are more vulnerable to potential issues and injuries than ones from other body-training. Which is why when I do recommend it for friends it's with huge caveats of "go to good classes first, and here's how to tell if the class-leader is not a safe one." (They may be WONDERFUL PEOPLE, but not safe yoga teachers).
But I also come at yoga from a childhood and adolescence of competitive dance wherein I danced with girls so flexible that various important things in their hips would occasionally wind up in the wrong position around the bone. And people danced on broken feet and with broken ribs and with knee braces. So, you know. Only 46 ER visits out of tens of millions of people doing it? We had three ER visits in one year from a hundred and fifty people in a dance studio. :P Come back when your numbers are REALLY scary.