If you’re suffering from pelvic pain, lower back, or buttocks for more than 6 months, it could lead to serious long-term medical issues as well as higher chances of disability.
Most of the women suffering from such ailments experience sadness, depression, and anxiety.
The reason behind such chronic pain can be multifactorial and with a different set of reasons. Further, it may be linked to other medical conditions like musculoskeletal pain, irritable bowel syndrome, interstitial cystitis, or endometriosis.
Medical treatment, exercise, and lifestyle modification can help women suffering from such pain. Common medicines that are recommended are pain killers, antidepressants, progesterone-like medications, and anticonvulsant medications.
Most of the medications are focused on symptomatic care, rather than treatment. But each of these medications comes with its side effects and sometimes may not address the root cause of the pain.
Chronic pain can lead to an increase in sensitivity towards pain and decreases the precision function to detect tissue damage. Such damages to the nervous system can be irreversible.
Many women opt for alternative approaches like Yoga to manage pain.
Yoga promotes health through the common aim to unite the mind and body. Yoga gives the additional benefit of self-management for women. They can perform postures (asana) in their own home at their own time.
A recent study conducted by Dr.Russell and his team for Journal of Women’s Health Physical Therapy on the effects of Yoga on pain in women with chronic pelvic pain. The results suggested that Yoga decreases pain to a greater extent.
The 3 recommended asanas for chronic back pain are:
1.Viparita Karani (Legs up the wall)
2. Baddha Konasana (butterfly or bound angle), and
3. Shavasana (corpse pose)
These postures are meant for full-body relaxation. If the person suffering from chronic back pain experiences full-body relaxation, this would include pelvic and back muscles too. Yoga may provide psychological and emotional well-being with a decrease in pain.
