I'm starting DDP Yoga tomorrow, I don't care how gimmicky it is, I have personally seen it bring results to people with back injuries and at this point I will try anything. But any and all advice is much much appreciated, even the smallest stretches to alleviate pain, etc
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@Galanis, I hope that the yoga-stuff will help you, try it for sure!
If you are willing to give it a shot to recover your body, have you heard about the Wim Hof Method?
It is a combination of breathing, cold exercises and (here it goes) yoga practices to make your body work better in general, meaning making the control-unit in your brain and your body that executes connect better and influence your immune system and thus the body's recovery in many ways.
I came across it by chance in a UFC promo where Alistair Overeem trained with Wim (the guy), before the Arlovski-fight, and that stoked my interest. I think and later I saw a clip of him explaining some stuff to Joe Rogan. I will add this clip at the end as I think it is a great summary and has an amazing breathing exercise which I encourage everybody to try out. Takes less than 5 minutes.
I met a guy who was a professional soccer player in the Netherlands, got hurt with a herniated disc at 23, too; couldn't really move pain-free for months, followed the program and is pain free now. He's not doing intensive sports, though, but he stopped taking medicine and functions normally. So that was the first thing I thought about when I read your thread.
So I really feel weird making some strong claims on the internet ... and the stuff will probably not get some bone alignment back to normal ... but if you're willing to try it, please(!) give it a shot and share if it helps. If nothing, it will improve your (or as we're going in this direction - anybody who reads this and would try it regularly, there I said it) overall well-being, as you influence the nervous system (adrenaline, melatonine) and condition your body as brain & body align better. The breathing changes the chemistry in your body, releases endorphins and shuts down pain receptors to a degree. It's also being researched and documented by scientific studies from university.
For me, I have no injuries but the breathing helps for example against a raging hangover or feeling down (do 5 rounds of the exercise in the video and you fly). So if even only that helps, that can be something.
Here is the clip as a start. Research more on your own, that's always the best way.
final disclaimer: I really don't want to look like a guy that pops up out of nowhere and proclaims some stuff like a marketing ploy. I just saw so much positivite stuff here in this thread that I want to help as well and I'm 100% positive that it can make you feel and function better. I recommend it to all my friends, and now also to you guys