537: Yoga for Arthritis with Ann Swanson
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Arthritis in the knees, hips, or wrists is extremely common, particularly in the second half of life. If you’re feeling pain and inflammation in your joints, the natural impulse is to reduce your movement and limit your activities, but movement is medicine. The fluid between your joints wants and needs movement to nourish, heal, and lubricate your connective tissues. But how much movement is helpful? And how often? There are no easy answers to these questions, but yoga for arthritis teacher and best-selling author, Ann Swanson, joins us to share her personal and professional findings.
Listen to learn:
- The importance of strength as we age
- How to modify for your body and your pain
- How hyaline (articular) cartilage health is crucial and how degradation of this tissue can lead to pain and restricted movement
- How the synovial fluid around your joints responds to movement and compression
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Ann Swanson is a certified yoga therapist and author of the best-selling book, Science of Yoga. She specializes in helping people manage stress, pain and arthritis.
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| 0:00.0 | When you're living healthfully, all of us have the experience of when you get on a positive |
| 0:08.1 | role and you're going to the gym or doing your run or doing your yoga, doing your stretch, |
| 0:11.9 | eating well, and then we all also know the feeling of getting knocked off the tracks. |
| 0:17.6 | And when it comes to movement, injuries are one of the biggest ones. Your knees hurt, |
| 0:21.6 | your lower back hurts, your wrists are inflamed, can be really challenging to deal with, |
| 0:25.9 | and then we get into another category, things like arthritis. When you start to think |
| 0:30.2 | is this how my knee is going to feel for the rest of my life? Is this how my lower back is going |
| 0:34.0 | to feel for the rest of my life? And the negative loop that we can go into, we can spin off in our head, |
| 0:40.0 | can sometimes keep us inactive, that inactivity can make the injury worse, make the arthritis worse, |
| 0:45.2 | it's really challenging to get out of a rut. On this week's podcast, we'll be chatting about |
| 0:50.0 | arthritis, specifically why movement is medicine. If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show, |
| 0:54.8 | I'm a yoga teacher, I'm a teacher trainer, I'm a serial entrepreneur, father of three kids. |
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| 1:02.6 | researchers, medical doctors, physical therapists, and all of the above, and I bring their work here, |
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| 1:41.1 | Welcome everyone, it's Lucas here, today's show is called Yoga for Arthritis, |
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