5-Minute Workout: Relief from Cramps
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- Ease Period Cramps
- 1. Forward Bend
- 2. Supported Half-Moon
- 3. Head-to-Knee Pose
- 4. Wide-Angle Forward Bend
- 5. Reclined Bound Angle Pose
Ease Period Cramps
While period cramps may send you cowering back under the covers, it's exercise, not bed rest, that will revive you the most. And yoga is particularly effective in easing your pain. "Yoga incorporates deep breathing, which helps relieve the effects of oxygen deprivation to the tissues, one of the main causes of cramps," says Suzanne Trupin, MD, a gynecologist at the Women's Health Practice in Champaign, Illinois. Here, how to find relief in just five minutes with these simple moves from Cyndi Lee, director of OM yoga in New York City.
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I can't see this working because when I'm cramping, I don't want to move at all.
8/9/2010 09:16:25 AM Report Abusei agree with elgin above about the inverted poses during menstruation...PLEASE, Fitness Mag, check on this
8/8/2010 12:56:43 PM Report Abuseoh ps, the larger the clots the stronger the pain. so if it is small clotts, not so bad. eat food that thins the blood. hint
8/8/2010 10:57:59 AM Report AbuseI also know that cramps are caused by blood clots. so even with the exercise with may help the pain, clotting is the cause
8/8/2010 10:55:59 AM Report AbuseI take issues with some of these poses for menstrual pain since inversion is contradicted with menstruation; you can get relief with other poses that do not use inversion.
7/9/2010 05:33:54 PM Report Abuse