Child's Pose - What to do to avoid Hip or Shoulder Impingement

Описание: How do I make child’s pose comfortable for hip or shoulder pinching or impingement?

First, if you are a teacher or therapist and want to learn how to use child’s pose diagnostically (aka how to evaluate the pose and make it therapeutic), please read Chapter 9, pages 255-259 in my textbook, Medical Therapeutic Yoga. There are plenty of details to get you going. I also teach these details in training courses for healthcare providers.

Also, there are other variations we will be covering in the future, including two poses I call “Lateral Child’s Pose” and “Reach, Roll, Rise Pose.” These have amazing utility in tackling problems with the respiratory diaphragm, ribcage, ribs, intercostals (muscles in between), abdominals and any surgical scars around the trunk or pelvis, and shoulder/scapular strength and proprioception (knowledge of where you are in space).

The more energetic and psycho-emotional-social benefits of these poses are related to their ability to create “Safe Space,” and improve vagal tone

This pose is also part of a trifecta I call “Sensory Diet 2.” I will explain this fully in upcoming weeks, but you may want to read Sensory Diet 1 first to understand the neuroscience and therapeutic effects.

How do I make child’s pose comfortable for hip or shoulder pinching or impingement?

Do in Child’s Pose

✅Fish gill breathe

✅Use this pose and the breathe to facilitate myofascial release

✅Use a thinly rolled blanket to avoid foot drop

✅Go wider with the knees to avoid hip impingement and create more breathing space

✅Use the Yoga Couch to avoid hip impingement and knee joint compression

✅Do adapt the pose to fit your pelvic girdle needs

✅Do place the hands under the forehead or use a blanket under the edge of the forehead to prevent neck issues.

✅This pose can be combined with manual therapy techniques to increase its therapeutic effect. I teach PT’s and other providers to do these in my trainings (link in bio).

Do not in Child’s Pose

❎ Do not wrap your arms by your sides for this particular therapeutic approach

❎Do not straighten the arms out in front of you. Use a scaption angle.

❎Do not force your head to drop down to the floor. Use a rolled blanket under the forehead to prevent cervical shear.

❎Do not do this pose if you have osteoporosis. Please see your PT to adapt the pose to your needs FIRST.

❎Do not try to hold the abdominals in or use this pose as a strength builder.

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