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Sunday, March 04, 2007

Yoga for mitigating migraine:
Symptoms and causes:
Migraine is caused by the dilation of blood vessels on one side of the brain. Migraine headaches are usually characterized by severe pain on one or both sides of the head. Other typical migraine symptoms include headaches, muscular tension in the head, neck and shoulder due to the congestion of blood vessels that supply blood to the brain and muscles. Several factors are known to trigger migraine.
1)Tyramine is a chemical known to trigger migraine. This can be found in certain food items like beer, wine, aged-cheese, yeast, coffee, banana, eggs, orange, spinach, and tomatoes. Also, aginomoto aka MSG may also trigger symptoms of migraine. (Read the labels of food you buy)
2)Fatigue, sleep deprivation, Bright light
4)Certain infections
5)Menstruation
6)Stress
7)Poor posture
8)Drug or other food allergies, low blood sugar
9)Eye strain
10)Head injury
Try to find out what causes or triggers your migraine and avoid that.

Suggested yoga exercises:
After a brief warm up the following exercises are recommended: For the details of the asanas, please refer to the notes sent by the instructor:

For warm up:
Kapalabati
Balasana (child pose) breathing
Single leg raise
Double leg raise
Perform 5-6 rounds of Surya-namaskar

Core yogasanas
Tree pose (Vrikshasana)
Triangle pose (Trikonasana)Cobra pose
Cobra pose (Bhujangasana)

Wind releasing pose(Pavana mukhtasana)
Inverted pose (Vipareeta karani)
Half-waist wheel pose (Artha- kati chakrasana )
Forward and backward bend
Yoga mudra (Padmasana fwd bend)


Relaxation:
DRT
Pranayama

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good for people to know.

4:18 PM

 

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