In my sports injury specialty, I often see patients who are injured by practicing yoga. When people engage in various sports in their spare time, sports injuries often occur, which are more or less related to yoga training. Do you know anything about yoga? Do you pay attention to the injuries that occur when you practice yoga? If you like to practice yoga, why don’t you discuss and understand the true meaning of yoga, and improve your understanding of this foreign “sport” to avoid unnecessary injuries caused by blind worship. I. What is yoga all about? In ancient India, there were many religious philosophies, and three of them were regarded as classics: one was the Yoga Sutra, the other was the Bhagavad Gita, and the third was the Upanishads. The ancient Hindu Brahmanism advocates the theory of the unity of Brahman and Self. These are the earliest origins of yoga: the goal is to practice mind and body in philosophical and religious rituals, to unite spirit with nature, and ultimately to realize all that is possible for man. The theoretical basis of yoga is the “chakras”, which according to Indian philosophy: the chakras (chakras) exist in the body and govern the functioning of the mind and body, and are related to the functions of the organs of the body; in the mental aspect, they influence the emotions and the spirit. Are there any misconceptions about yoga exercise? Anyone who practices yoga knows that yoga emphasizes its own conditioning. Yoga practice regulates breathing, regulates the mind, and clears distractions and fixations. Yoga can help stimulate glands, massage internal organs, relax nerves, stretch muscles, strengthen the body, calm the mind, and achieve the effect of clearing physical ailments. One can cite balancing the mind and body as one of the benefits of practicing yoga. But to think that yoga can lose weight or cure disease is a misconception that one has entered. Yoga promotes the effect of toning disease, not curing disease; it promotes the effect of promoting weight loss, not direct weight loss; because the commonality of these effects is difficult to quantify. Yoga’s conditioning of oneself is greatly influenced by the subjective will of the practitioner. Combined with the metaphysical concepts of cosmic nature and so on, practicing yoga can have “amazing effects” and give the impression of being a high-end yet fashionable way to get fit. People make it a therapeutic goal to practice yoga without the discomfort of a physical state; and to practice yoga without serious consequences, which is the primary reason for yoga’s success. Scientific studies have found that yoga is effective only in so-called “subhealth states,” which are terms of no definite origin, so the sociological significance of yoga is much greater than its medical and clinical significance. Yoga Journal is currently the world’s most authoritative journal on yoga training. Yoga Journal was founded in 1975 in the United States. Based in Los Angeles, it has grown into an international publication with different editions in nine countries, including France, Italy, Spain, and Russia. One million people in the United States read Yoga Journal magazine on a permanent basis. Yoga has taken the world by storm, with more than 100 million people practicing yoga worldwide, and the practice of yoga has become an international trend. The Light of Yoga is a monograph on yoga published by the Indian Iyengar in 1966. In 2004, Iyengar was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. With the amazing performances of Indian ascetic yoga monks and the popularity of fashion magazines and celebrities, yoga became a “world sport” and a “fashion” label. As a result, yoga eventually became an industrial myth. The World Yoga Association is headquartered in Kolkata, India, the birthplace of yoga, with over a million registered members and 300,000 instructors and coaches in India, all over the world. And according to its official data: as of 2010, there are 127 World Yoga Associations in various countries and regions around the world: Kolkata, India, Bangladesh, China, USA, Germany, Singapore and so on. Academically: There are yoga academies in various countries, which study yoga as a science. Training: There are yoga instructor training certification bodies, and yogi certification alone has brought in tens of millions of dollars in revenue for the association. Yoga classes are set up in 75% of gyms around the world, and over 80% of gyms in China have yoga programs. People spend$6 billion a year on yoga classes, yoga clothes, discs, and yoga vacations. In large and medium-sized Asian cities, yoga classes of all kinds stand on street corners and in neighborhoods. In European countries, millions of people are learning yoga. The total value of the global yoga industry exceeds$30 billion. According to reports, the number of people practicing yoga around the world is increasing at a rate of 50% per year, and there are about 700,000 new yoga practitioners in the United States every year. Yoga has become a huge fitness industry chain. Fourth, in addition to the misconceptions of practicing yoga, what else is ignored? 1, ignore the irrationality of yoga: chakras are the core of yoga, a religious philosophical system, not a fitness method. The chakras are the general term for the energy centers of the human body, responsible for the regulation of organs and the balance of the energy centers, ultimately achieving the purpose of regulating the balance of body and mind, healing diseases and strengthening the body. The doctrine of “chakras” and the concept of “qi” and “five elements” in Chinese medicine can be said to complement each other, but compared to the verbal criticism of Chinese medicine, people for yoga has selectively ignored its unreasonable. 2, ignore the multiplicity of yoga: modern yoga also selectively ignores the original multiplicity of yoga. modern yoga, created and promoted since 1966, is a sect based on extreme breathing and physical exercise, honing the body by maintaining extreme postures, with a view to transcending the limits of asana practice; it is a sect variation of Hatha yoga, a subsystem of yoga, which was born out of yoga. -It is a variation of Hatha Yoga. Many schools of yoga, such as the Yoga of Victory, the Yoga of Wisdom, the Yoga of the Ultimate Goodness, the Yoga of Action, and the Yoga of Sound, which emphasize the adjustment of mental states and states of mind, have been selectively ignored by modern yoga. Five, yoga on the body’s calorie consumption problem: the American Association for Sport and Exercise (ACE) once conducted a 8-week study, found that to participate in a 55-minute yoga practice, the average can only consume 144 kcal; exercise and calorie consumption is less than the consumption of the same time walking. For the same amount of time, a slow walk can burn 255 kcal; a brisk walk can burn 555 kcal; a jog can burn 655; and a brisk run can burn 700 kcal. So the calorie consumption of yoga on the body is low. Six, yoga on the body damage: must realize: nowadays in the world, yoga has formed a huge fitness industry, yoga originally religious and philosophical properties have long been abandoned. The risk of injury and the cultural implications of yoga have become unimportant compared to the economic benefits of yoga, which are worth over$30 billion. Time Magazine has reported that between 2007 and 2010, 13,000 Americans were sent to the emergency room or to the doctor for injuries sustained from yoga practice. Neurology, the British Medical Journal, and the Journal of the American Medical Association have all shown concern about sports injuries caused by yoga. A leading neurophysiologist at Oxford University, Rich Russell, has published an article stating that some yogis have been found to suffer from exercise injuries. Russell published an article stating that some yoga poses can lead to a risk of stroke in practitioners, even in young, healthy people. In addition, according to CDC sampling data, the number of emergency room visits for yoga injuries in the United States was 13 in 2000, increased to 20 in 2001, and more than doubled to 46 in 2002. This is not the total number of injuries. The survey showed that only a small number of practitioners went to the hospital for treatment of their injuries, and many of those with minor injuries often turned to physical therapists and chiropractors. The Times has reported that health experts have found that hot yoga increases the risk of excessive soft tissue stretching, muscle damage, soft tissue, and cartilage rupture. In 2009, a New York research group published the results of a global survey of yoga instructors, therapists and physicians that found that the areas with the highest number of injuries after practicing yoga were the lower back (231 cases), shoulders (21 9 cases), knees (174 cases), and neck (110 cases). There were four cases of some degree of brain injury due to large bending and twisting movements. These data are a reminder that it is important to practice yoga with a proper understanding and not blindly, otherwise injury can easily occur.