How to Ease Fibromyalgia Symptoms With Yoga

Fibromyalgia is a painful disorder and anyone who has it knows doing aerobic exercises can be quite painful. Here are six easy-to-do exercise techniques to help ease fibromyalgia symptoms with yoga. Best of all, these exercises are very low impact and should not cause additional pain.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

How to Ease Fibromyalgia Symptoms with Yoga

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   Warm up your muscles first, then stretch. Act as if you are pitching a baseball, serving a tennis ball or swinging a golf club.

2. Mountain Pose: Stand with heels and toes together, arms at sides and lift your chest, while dropping your shoulders. Return to this posture after each exercise.

3. Reach for the stars: Stand with heels together and and toes angled out in a v shape, with both arms to the side. Inhale and rise up on your toes and slowly bringing arms out to the sides and then up over your head. Breathe while holding this posture.

4. Forward Bend: Bend forward at the hips, while exhaling, keeping your back straight, but not locking your knees. If you have lower back problems, keep your knees bent.

5. Dancer's Pose: Shift your weight to one foot. Grab hold of the other foot behind you, while raising your opposite hand above your head and exhaling. Hold this position while breathing. Lower arm and leg slowly.

6. Arm Roll: Stand with feel slightly apart. Breathe normally for this yoga exercise. Move up onto your toes, then roll onto the outside of your feet. Continue rolling back onto your heels, turn inward to roll from heels to toes, on the inside of your feet. Finish back on your toes. Repeat in a continuous roll ten times.

7. Relaxation: Ends your yoga session. Stand with feet shoulder width apart-a three-second relaxation exercise you can do anytime, anywhere.

Tips & Warnings

• Do these exercises anytime a flare of fibromyalgia symptoms creep up.
• Do at least ten reps for each exercise.
• Do these yoga techniques after a warm bath or shower to loosen tight muscles.
• Doing yoga techiniques or exercises can decrease pain, increase muscle strength and improve sleep and concentration.
• Consult with your doctor before doing any of these exercises.
• If you are pregnant, check with your doctor.
• If you have any muscle injury, do not attempt, unless directed by your doctor.
• Listen to your body and go slowly.
• If you begin to hurt, stop.
• Stick to certain postures that won't cause more pain, such as Downward Dog and Tree while battling fibromyaliga.

Resources

• Fibromyalgia Hope
• Fibromyalgia Symptoms

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[SeventhSibling]

on 7/14/2008 I have fibromyalgia and you are right, doing some activities is very painful. I'm printing this out to give it try.