I went to a chiropractor today and it was very interesting. He made an x-ray of my back and we talked about training, yoga etc. My body have a sceletal construction wich is in a certain way and for example some of the discs in my back are not formed as they should be. The inbalance in my sceleton system makes my muscles work harder to correct for this.
my legs are equally long and the inbalance is in the spine itself. in the chest area the vertebraes are not shaped as they should and I have a tendancy to compress my chest area forward. The lower backs first vertebrae is tilted to the left and that makes my lower part of the spine go to the left.
it was a big relief to see the x-rays and see how my spine actually looks in a relaxed posture. I was expecting a lot of sounds from my body when he started the treatment but there was almost none.I was recommended to sit in a chair which have this special rest for the knees and is called a kneeling chair. I am a bit sceptical about the kneeling chair since wikipedia basically says it is a failure.
I recommend people who have problems with their back to get a total check done by a doctor or chiropractor. It is also important to understand the difference between relaxation in the muscles and how your skeleton looks. yoga will help your muscles to relax and that is much needed in between physical activity. The perfect examples you see in yoga magazines are people who also had the help from good genetics to start with. No matter how flexible you are the hard parts of the bone will not change.
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