![]() ![]() However, there is another side to yoga practice that is equally important but does not necessarily produce the astonishing photographs that bending backward like a jackknife and resting your head on your feet may: developing strength. ![]() Of course, while flexibility varies from person to person, and hypermobility is not limited to yogis, flexibility is one of the benefits popularly associated with yoga. Most pro athletes receive only three or four! I was still working on getting my leg behind my head after almost a decade! So I still had not accepted that I was flexible enough to be vulnerable to injury when the doctor woke me up after surgery to announce that my extreme mobility had necessitated seven anchors in my shoulder. I mean, I was not posting contortionist pictures of myself on Instagram. Of course, I’d known that flexibility makes you more prone to injury, but I never imagined that I fell into that camp. While it was a confluence of events, including a fall, that had culminated in my injuries, I learned that the biggest culprits were hypermobility in my joints and an RSI, or repetitive stress injury. “It makes sense with all those crazy things you yoga masters do every day.” “Wow! Are you loose!” he exclaimed, as he easily moved my arm in and out of the socket. If anyone would know shoulders it was someone who worked with pitchers. As someone whose body is their work, that was a heavy pill to swallow.Īfter getting a few other opinions, I made an appointment with the primary doctor for our city’s Major League Baseball team. That had led to a 180-degree tear in the labrum (the cartilage that cushions the socket), a torn bicep tendon, a torn rotator cuff tendon, and significant arthritis of the acromioclavicular joint (where the collarbone meets the shoulder blade). It turns out that I had been living with a partially dislocated shoulder, with my upper arm out of its shoulder socket. Something benign that would show I was exaggerating the pain I felt-at least, that’s what I hoped.Īs the doctor read the two pages of results, I stopped taking notes at a certain point and felt my stomach sink down to my feet, like an elevator without cables. I assumed it was going to be a simple diagnosis like tendinitis (inflammation of the muscle attachment). I had been unable to put on a jacket for months, let alone do a full yoga practice. The results of my shoulder MRI had come in. When the doctor asked me if I was sitting down I knew it was serious.
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