Acroyoga (Photo courtesy of Wikicommons Images, Earl McGehee, CC BY-SA 3.0)JK writes: “I recently heard about a woman who suffered a horrendous injury from a type of yoga called acroyoga. Is this real yoga or another one of those spin-offs we hear about.”
We received the following witness from a woman who was injured during the practice of yoga. As this blog details, physical injuries during yoga classes are surprisingly common. Consumers need to be made more aware of the very real possibility of these types of injuries!
The idea that "real yoga is as safe as mother's milk" has been seriously challenged in a book that details the shocking extent of yoga-related injuries among both yogis and the general population.
A risky yoga move known as the “back bridge” is being blamed for the paralysis of a four year-old girl in China.
In spite of all the hype about the health benefits of yoga, a new study has found that the injury rate of yoga is 10 times higher than previously reported.
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