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My boss is off indefinitely with a spiral fracture in his arm.  Our outside sources tell us that it happened during his judo lessons.  One of my co-workers commented on the situation.

"Ya, I knew he was into that yoga and stuff, so I'm not surprised."

... a spiral fracture from yoga?  Extreme yoga perhaps - or full-contact yoga.  I'm not saying that yoga isn't without its injuries, but I've never associated it with spiral fractures.

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Comments

[fuzzytoedcollie.livejournal.com]

*owch* My mom did a spiral leg fracture a long time ago. Took a lot of healing.

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[gedrean.livejournal.com]

If one achieves that kind of injury in Yoga, one isn't doing it right.

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

He must have been doing some of that weird Tai-Chi stuff.
Lucky he didn't accidentally get disemboweled. I saw it in a marital arts movie! O_o

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

I think I will let that spelling mistake stand.

If one achieves that kind of injury in a marriage, one isn't doing that right either. ;-)

[elfasi.livejournal.com]

I read a medical report about someone who managed to cause a spiral fracture in their arm simply by throwing a snowball really hard. All it came down to was the force exerted by the muscle exceeding the tensile strength of the bone in rotation. These kind of happenings are pretty damn rare though fortunately, the body is quite good at limiting movements that would do that.

[typographer.livejournal.com]

Several years ago an editor I had been working with on several projects (at work) broke her collar bone while rollerblading with her fiancee (also a co-worker).

About four-five weeks after the accident, she asked her doctor when she could start doing yoga again. He said she could probably start now.

Ten weeks later the shoulder was still not healed -- in fact, it was worse. The doctor was confused about this. She told him that there were several times in yoga class when the shoulder hurt "a lot." So then he asks her what kind of yoga moves. She started to show him and he said, "Oh, my god! That's not what I thought yoga was!"

She had to stop taking yoga for about six months. She had to wear electrostimulus device to force the bones to start knitting again. There was surgery involved.

Yoga involves lots of stretching and strength building. Muscles are capable of putting out enough force to break bones, it just depends on a number of factors.

Of course, I thought it was a little weird that she'd experience "really bad pain" three times a week for ten weeks and keep doing it, but that's just me. I mean, I know when I broke my shoulder, the doctor had be do lots of odd exercises and he warned me they would hurt. But he said, "Uncomfortable is fine. Actual pain means you've gone too far. Keep pushing into the uncomfortable."

[tzisorey.livejournal.com]

Someone once told me to take up tai chi instead of yoga, because yoga can be pretty intensive, despite not having as much movement..... I dunno how much truth was in that though.


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