Shoulder impingement...what to watch for?

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#41

I’m debating whether I should find a yoga therapist or an Anusara based yoga teacher.
I suppose the yoga therapist would be better for learning about asanas that could improve my osteoporotic condition, while some Anusara based lessons would help me discuss the particulars of alignment.

As always, the perfect path is the one that resonates with you. I’d like to re-state, to clarify, that many licensed Anusara? yoga instructors (both Certified and Inspired) are also skilled therapists. We discussed osteoporosis (among many other topics) at the Advanced Therapeutics training I just attended with John Friend in Santa Fe.

There was an instructor there from Toronto area named Annette who I connected with and quite liked: http://www.freespirit-yoga.ca/. She’s based in Mississauga, I’m not sure if this is closer or further from you, but I thought I’d just offer it up as I appreciated getting to know her.

All the best to you, whatever your choice. May you find the perfect approach to your practice and body. Blessings. :slight_smile:

#42

Excellent, Katrina! Thanks for the recommendation. Mississauga is close to where I am located. I will look her up.

#43

Does anybody have any good sources for videos, cartoons, schematics that really show how the shoulders move as:

-upper arms rotate outward
-shoulder blades firm against the back (flatten against the back)
-shoulders are pulled down toward tailbone

These are terms that come up frequently in some of the reading I’m doing but I haven’t come across and good videos that SHOW it happening.

I went to a workshop on inversions and the teacher tried to demonstrate this but she was wearing a black t-shirt and I couldn’t really see through to her anatomy. She also tried using a skeleton to show this but the joints on the model were secured and not hinged so that she could move them.

#44

I was also facing some problems with my shoulder but then I went to orthopedic surgeon and he suggested me some rehabilitation exercises. Now I?m absolutely fine. Shoulder rehabilitation exercises have magical results.