Yoga For Drivers Back And Neck Pain 1
By practicing a 'Rolling Namaste' in gridlock and traffic jams, you'll leave road rage behind and benefit from a more healthy lifestyle free yourself of back pain.
Low back pain exercises can also relieve passengers with back problems during stressful driving times. Deepak Chopra has written that 'the body is like a river' and with Drivetime Yoga that river keeps flowing.
Drivetime Yoga books, audio and other media, feature simple series of yoga exercises and adjustments that can be done easily, practicing yoga in your car and everywhere.
Drivetime Yoga helps to tone, energize and relax drivers so that they become more centered and focused on driving safely.
Is your car right for you? The driver should place both hands together, pointing forwards. If the steering wheel is not offset then the driver is pointing straight at the centre of the wheel. The danger of having an offset wheel is that most drivers end to rotate the middle of the spine to compensate for its position, producing long term back strain and back pain.
Two major contributors of neck pain while driving are insufficient headroom and inadequate seat positioning. Compact vehicles are notorious for poorly accommodating tall individuals.
If the ceiling is too low for an erect seated position the driver is forced to crunch down in the seat with a forward head posture. This is sure to elicit neck and upper back pain. Short drivers must be able to slide the seat forward to the extent that they do not have to lean forward and place the head in a forward position.
It is common for drivers to lean forward in the seat in order to comfortably reach the controls while driving. The result is not only strain and fatigue to spinal muscles but this creates a significant gap between the head and headrest.
In the event of a rear-end collision the head and neck are vulnerable to whiplash injury because the gap allows the head to go backward into hyperextension. The research on whiplash indicates that the greater the gap between the head and the headrest the greater the injury.
There are add-on headrest supports that close the gap between the head and headrest. One study found that 97% of the existing car headrests provided inadequate neck support and only 3% were rated as good.
Glen Wood – The Yoga Teacher, dedicated to unlocking the Real Secrets of Back and Shoulder Pain.
