Bursitis of shoulder

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#1

i have a new student who was told by a young pt that she has bursitis in her shoulder as she has pain upon raising her arm or moving it in certain ways. he told her that she needed to improve her posture and do yoga. she is now in my class and has alot of pain with moving her arms. even in corpse pose, her shoulder hurts unless she props a pillow under it.

do you have any suggestions for poses or modifications that would be helpful? how do you go about healing bursitis? any tips would be most appreciated.

thank you,
sue kelly

#2

See also knee and shoulder articles i wrote on my website bookstore www.yogatherapycenter.org in general when there is bursitis you get over it not my a yogic approach but more help is from an Ayurvedic approach. First yoga needs to be taking a vacation to alleviate the inflammation. One should just avoid all shoulder weight bearing poses until the inflammation passes as does not return even when doing 6 sun salutes. that is my test to see if a therapeutic yoga practice can be designed. If not then they need to stop yoga for longer. The only safe yoga practice to do with bursitis is my Joint Freeing Series and that needs to be modified too. No asanas. Period. Inflammation is not diminished by doing more exercises or smarter exercises. Once that is done then a personal assessment needs to be made by a trained Ytherapist to evaluate what is tight, what is weak to create a personalized program. General recommendations tend to aggravate this condition. Search for other discussions on shoulders here. namaste mukunda