Advantages and disadvantages of postpartum yoga Advantages and disadvantages of postpartum yoga: 1, restore body shape. Postpartum yoga can enhance the elasticity of perineal muscles of new mothers, promote uterine contraction, prevent the uterus and bladder from descending, and help the uterus return to its normal position. Moreover, postpartum yoga can improve blood circulation, reduce body fat accumulation, restore skin tension, and help new mothers recover their prenatal body shape. 2. The uterus is very soft and secret for women's bodies, and its influence on women's health cannot be ignored. According to relevant data, about 90% of married women have a series of symptoms such as dull complexion, irregular menstruation and endocrine disorders because they have not effectively protected their uterus. Then practicing yoga is absolutely beneficial to the maintenance of the uterus for women. 3. Yoga can keep the uterus alive. All kinds of yoga movements are carried out through abdominal breathing, which can just improve the flexibility of the uterus, help accelerate the blood circulation in the uterus, and then make the uterus more lasting. The main disadvantage of postpartum yoga is that it may cause hyperextension injury of spinal cord. In yoga, there is a camel posture, that is, leaning back and supporting the ground with both hands. If you practice this movement too much, it is easy to cause damage to the lamina and ligament behind the spinal canal, and even to the spinal cord in severe cases, which is called hyperextension injury in medicine. It is best to start practicing yoga after the full moon. Of course, if the body has not fully recovered, you must wait until the wound heals before you start practicing. When practicing for the first time, don't pursue the standardization of movements too much, and the time should not be too long. Just keep practicing step by step every day.
When will postpartum yoga be practiced? Generally speaking, if the mother recovers, she can practice it. If the parturient is delivered by caesarean section, it will take about 40 days to practice. But because everyone's physical recovery is different, postpartum yoga must wait until the body recovers before practicing. So how long it takes for postpartum yoga varies from person to person. Yoga moves pay more attention to softness and stretching. If you do postpartum yoga too early, it is easy to tear the wound and is not conducive to recovery. Especially for women who have caesarean section, the body will leave a knife edge, so we must wait for the knife edge to recover before exercising. In addition, premature postpartum yoga is easy to affect uterine rehabilitation, and may also cause massive bleeding. Long-term yoga exercise may also lead to surgical wounds, re-injury of vulvar incision and so on. However, Ma Bao can usually do the following two yoga moves: Postpartum Weight-loss Yoga 1, and latch-type: This yoga weight-loss action can strengthen the spine and internal organs, increase abdominal muscles, make the abdomen more compact, play a role in slimming the abdomen, and also have a good effect on eliminating the fat on the waistline. Postpartum yoga action 2, one-leg balanced stretching: One-leg balanced stretching yoga weight loss action can improve leg edema, eliminate waist fat, and play the role of slimming the lower body, which is mainly achieved by strengthening the lower plate strength exercise. Note: handstands must not be done: because during pregnancy, a woman's abdomen bulge has shrunk her chest, and handstands will press her chest more.