Yin Yoga: Going Beyond Flexibility and Extending the Yielding Approach of Yin Yoga to Master Your Mind. Yin Yoga Poses with photos and description. (Spiritual Book 2) by Cacace Sasy

Author:Cacace, Sasy [Cacace, Sasy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

Contracture.

Even people without osteoarthritis experience damage and pain in their joints. One common example of this is when people experience contracture, which is when the joint loses mobility, it is a shrink wrapping of the joints. There are many potential causes of this condition, such as illness, cartilage or ligament damage, muscle atrophy, and nerve damage. One of the most common causes of contracture is a problem in the ligaments of your joints.

As we go about life we can develop tiny microscopic tears in your ligaments. These tears are so small that they aren’t even visible on the strongest of magnetic imaging scans. All the while, these microscopic tears still cause small wounds that must be healed by adding in new ligament tissue where it is missing, in much the same way that you might add in a missing piece on a puzzle.

It has long been known that your ligaments function by healing in this way. But, it for a long time it was a mystery why your ligaments don’t end up too long if they form tears, fill with more ligament tissue, and repeat. After all, if you stretched a piece of saltwater taffy and every time it tore added in more taffy you would have an ever-growing taffy piece. The taffy would simply get longer and longer as it would never stop stretching, tearing, and patching.

In search of an answer to this ever puzzling question, Professor Laurence Dahners of the University of North Carolina found the answer. What he found resulted in a groundbreaking discovery. In turns out that the body has a function which works as shrink-wrap, which coats your joints and works on removing any extra ligament material so that they don’t become too long. There is one part that maintains and creates the material for your ligaments and another part that actively removes excessive material. We see this pattern all over the body, there is a similar aspect that works in your bones in which osteoblasts work to create bone tissue while osteoclasts dissolve bone tissue. It is a give and take, once again Yin and Yang.

You can actively witness the examples of this shrink-wrapping ligaments in your own life. Think back on a time when you were injured, maybe you sprained your arm or broke your foot. You were likely put in either a cast or a sling for a number of weeks or months. When it comes to time to take the sling or cast off you find that your arm or leg don’t move as easily as it once did. Now, your joint is moving more slowly and it feels stiff; it might even “freeze” in place stuck for a moment. This is because as you were not stretching and using your ligaments the body naturally took away what it saw as excess material that you weren’t using. When it was time to once again resume normal use of your limb you felt the lacking ligament. Thankfully, this is never a problem.

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