How to work with knees in yoga
When a student comes to you complaining of knee pain, the first thing you need to do is assess tracking. Tracking is a relative position between the hip joints, knee joints, and ankles and is the result of both musculoskeletal conditions and movement patterns. Tracking is the most informative visual cue that we can use in working with knees, as knees usually end up on the receiving end of what’s going on above them (hips) and below them (ankles and feet).
Here are some general ideas on how we can work with knees in yoga:
In this yoga practice, we target the muscles all around the knee joint—front and back, inside and outside, above and below. The balanced, healthy relationship between all those areas keeps our knees happy and strong.
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