Yoga is suitable for everyone, including middle-aged and elderly friends. Yoga plays a vital role in maintaining the health of middle-aged and elderly people. But middle-aged and elderly people should pay attention to practicing yoga to prevent injuries. So, what are the precautions for middle-aged and elderly people to practice yoga? Middle-aged and elderly people need to practice yoga seriously, and amateur athletes' sports injuries have increased significantly. Tao, deputy director of the Department of Orthopaedics, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, believes that there is no clear clinical diagnostic standard for bone age aging, and only X-rays show bone aging, which cannot explain the actual problems of bones.

However, he said that long-term traction of soft tissues such as ligaments around joints will lead to calcification and hyperplasia of attached bones to adapt to sports, so athletes and martial arts practitioners have a greater probability of calcification and hyperplasia of bones. Tao once consulted an intellectual woman who was nearly 40 years old. She practiced yoga for two or three years. Excessive bending, the patient sought medical treatment due to sudden back pain and other symptoms. Combined with magnetic resonance imaging, it was diagnosed as "lumbar disc herniation". Two other doctors in this hospital also accepted similar patients. Feng Xiaobo, the attending physician of the pain clinic, said that in recent years, more than 10 cases of yoga injuries were treated on average, mostly women aged 30-40, mostly due to tendon and ligament strains in the back, shoulders and buttocks.

Xin Wang, deputy chief physician, said that among the patients he treated in recent years, non-professional athletes like yoga practitioners suffered sports injuries, and people over the age of 35 used to avoid excessive neck and waist bending. "Tao Shengxiang said that any exercise should be carried out according to age characteristics, and attention should be paid to the extent and intensity of exercise." After people reach the age of 35, the intervertebral disc begins to weaken and the fibrous ring of the intervertebral disc becomes weak. Long-term excessive buckling, excessive stress concentration and frequent stimulation will lead to local rupture of intervertebral disc annulus and disc herniation.

Experts believe that breathing regulation and other relatively gentle exercises in yoga help to regulate mood and relax. However, some yoga moves are too big, and the flexibility of middle-aged and elderly people in practicing yoga will definitely be hurt, especially those who have not practiced when they were young, and it is more dangerous to become "half-way monks". He reminded people with waist problems not to bend back and forth sharply and not to have their necks. People with knee problems should not do squats and cross-legs. Adverse reactions in exercise must stop. If the pain is repeated, they should consult an expert.