Remodeling Function of Yoga Exercise on Human Bones

Zeng Chunhui

Sports Department of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, 212013, China

Keywords: Yoga, Benefits, Bone Remodeling, Problems and Misunderstandings, Remedy.

Abstract: Yoga is very significant for people’s mental and physical health as well as the remodeling of bones. With a

statement of the general situation as well as the exercise forms, state and benefits of Yoga, this work put

forward the great significance of Yoga on the remodeling of human bones through a deep excavation and

analysis of Yoga’s benefits. Combined with Yoga exercise, this work expounded the problems which should

be paid attention to and the erroneous zones easily being entered. And it also analyzed the prevention and

treatment of possible muscle-bone injuries during the Yoga exercise. The purpose is to enable the masses to

have a better understanding of Yoga so that they could improve their own physical quality and health level

through effective and safe Yoga, thus improving the quality of life and ensure a healthy and happy life.

1 INTRODUCTION

Yoga is an old form of exercise, the wealth of fitness

accumulated by people during the long course of

development. Persistent and scientific Yoga exercise

plays a positive role in people’s mental and physical

health, which could promote the health of human

body and prevent some diseases. And it could help

people achieve a high degree of unity and

coordination in body, psychology, emotion and

though, promoting a harmonious development of

people’s organs, muscle-bones and emotion. All in

all, Yoga could not only enhance people's physique

and reduce the diseases, but also strengthen people’s

muscle-bones and prolong the lifespan. It is a kind

of positive exercise which could improve people’s

living environment and quality.

2 YOGA AND HUMAN HEALTH

2.1 Overview of Yoga

Originating from more than 5,000 years ago, Yoga is

an embodiment of ancient Indian theory that man is

an integral part of nature. The purpose of

strengthening the body and mind of human and

reducing the diseases to make people healthy and

long-lived could be achieved by the improvement in

human physiology, psychology, emotion and spirit.

Yoga emphasizes the unity of body, psychology and

spirit, which could be exercised by means of asana

practice, breathing and meditation. Asana practice

could impose an impact on people’s muscle and

bones, promoting their health. Meanwhile, it could

strengthen people’s nervous system and endocrine

system, making each part of the human body

harmonious and unified. And it could also increase

the strangeness and health of human body, helping

people being highly active. Breathing exercise,

through Yoga’s characteristic breathing mode, could

relieve the pressure and relax the body and mind to

make people healthy. In addition, Yoga’s breathing

mode could deepen into the bottom of the lungs,

enabling the residual gas there to get discharged. It

can also develop the areas which normal breathing

can reach, promoting the development of the

cardiopulmonary function and increase the health

level. Through the tie of breathing, people’s spiritual

state will be improved. Some negative and unhealthy

thought will be excluded, thus improving people’s

psychological health level. The method of

meditation is the highest state of Yoga. In this state,

people’s body and mind won’t be interfered so that

the connection and unity of the human will & body

and mind will be increased. The pressure inside the

human body will be released, thus people could get

relaxation. With the public paying more and more

attention to the spiritual life, Yoga has won support

among the people and swept the world, escorting the

physical and mental health of human beings.

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Remodeling Function of Yoga Exercise on Human Bones.

DOI: 10.5220/0006026203580361

In Proceedings of the Information Science and Management Engineering III (ISME 2015), pages 358-361

ISBN: 978-989-758-163-2

2.2 Benefits of Yoga on the Human

Body

Yoga has a lot of benefits, such as body-building,

fitness, heart-strengthening, mind- strengthening and

so forth. Firstly, Yoga could release the pressure for

body and mind, letting the body get the best

relaxation. It guarantees people’s physical and

mental health and produces more strength of human

activities, which improves the quality of people’s

life. Secondly, Yoga makes people’s body, heart and

ideology highly unified and harmoniously, which is

of great significance in improving people’s sleep and

enhancing the memory. Besides, it could help

control people’s desires well and get a physical and

mental stability, thereby raising self-cultivation.

Thirdly, Yoga can effectively improve the motility

of heart and lung, allowing each organ a better

performance. And it delays the failure of human

organs, which has a positive effect on promoting the

physical and mental health and prolonging the life.

Fourthly, Yoga is beneficial to the coordination of

human endocrine system. It enhances people’s

immunity and promotes the ability of human

activities, ensuring the safety and health in various

activities. Fifthly, Yoga could purify the blood

effectively, clearing the exhaust gas and impurities

in the blood circulation. It enhances the flexibility of

human blood and slows down the aging of blood

vessels, increasing the wellness of human body.

Sixthly, Yoga could improve the flexibility and the

balance of human body and avoid the physical and

psychological harm brought by puffiness and lack of

exercise. At the same time, it is beneficial to the

remodeling of bones and body beautification &

fitness. For example, bloated waist makes people

move slowly and ugly, which increases the difficulty

of waist movement simultaneously. And the waist

bone is also relatively weak. The muscle and bones

of the waist are easily injured when exercising.

Making use of some movements, such as inclined

bracket type and dolphin support, in the Yoga

exercise could remodel the lines and increase the

flexibility of the bones of the back and the waist

effectively, keeping the human body perfect line

beauty and health beauty.

3 YOGA

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S FUNCTION OF

REMODELING THE HUMAN

BONES & YOGA EXERCISE

3.1 Function of Yoga Exercise -

Remodeling the Human Bones

There are 206 pieces of bones in the human body.

The joint of skeleton and skeleton forms the bones.

The key of the joint is osteoarthrosis. Apart from the

skeleton and osteoarthrosis, the movement of bones

still has a close connection with the nervous system,

skeletal muscle and dragging skeleton. Therefore,

attention should be paid to the training and

promotion of skeleton, osteoarthrosis, nervous

system, skeletal muscle and dragging skeleton when

remodeling the human bones. The function of

remodeling bones is mainly manifested in the

following aspects: firstly, human bones are

connected by osteoarthrosis, which bears huge

abrasive resistance and pulling force as well as

human weight in daily activities. As time passes, the

flexibility of human osteoarthrosis will gradually

weaken, even disappear. However, Yoga can adjust

the activity of osteoarthrosis effectively, which

could help increase the flexibility of osteoarthrosis

as well as the stability and toughness of the joints

between the skeletons. Secondly, the friction

between skeletons is unavoidable and frequent in the

human activities. Yoga exercise could enhance the

performance of fitting between skeletons and

minimize the loss of friction, thus increasing the

healthiness of human bones and the flexibility of

skeletons as well as avoiding and slowing down the

degradation and stiffness of human bones. In

addition, it could also reduce the morbidity risk rate

of arthritis and rheumatism. Thirdly, unhealthy

posture, exercise deficiency, indigestion, and

overeating of meat are also bad for the arthrosis in

daily life. For, example, incorrect sitting posture of

teenagers would lead to stoop. These unhealthy bone

shapes could get rectified and recovered gradually

by Yoga exercise, so as to remodel the human bones.

Fourthly, Yoga exercise increases the acuity and

perceptibility of the nervous system, achieving a

unified and harmonious relationship of the nerves

and people’s body and mind. It can improve the

control and balance ability of human nerves on the

bones, promoting the remodeling of human bones.

Fifthly, Yoga exercise promotes the healthy growth

and maintain of human skeletal muscle and dragging

skeleton and improves the activity ability and

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toughness of human bones, which is beneficial to the

growth and remodeling of human bones.

3.2 Problems to Be Noticed during the

Yoga Exercise

Yoga is beneficial to the health of human body,

heart and mind (ideology), which improves people’s

living quality, reduces human diseases and prolongs

the life time. Therefore, it is a means of sports that is

worth popularizing. Yet, if you want to achieve a

better effect from Yoga exercise, a deep

consideration aimed at Yoga’s characteristics should

be taken. Some problems calls for attention to be

avoided to make sure that the positive significance

of Yoga could be fully displayed. Firstly, Yoga

exercise can’t exceed your own physical limit and

the difficulty of the movement should be proper. An

excessive pursuit of the difficulty and perfection of

the movement could easily cause the discomfort and

injury of body, such as the feeling of “aching,

swelling and numbing” of some organ, the sprain of

the waist and ankle and so on. Secondly, Yoga

exercise attaches importance to the exchange of the

environment inner and outer the body, emphasizing

the alternation of air “inside” and “outside” the

human body. Therefore, to achieve the desired

effect, the movement environment must be chosen

carefully. On the one hand, Yoga exercise should

not choose environmentally sensitive areas, which

could hardly ensure the benefit of the exchange of

human gas. On the other hand, the temperature and

humidity of the environment should be proper.

Overheating or super-cooling places should not be

chosen, which can cause a big difference of the inner

and outer temperature and environment. It may

cause the organs such as heart and lungs stimulated

excessively, which is harmful to people’s health.

Thirdly, the correctness of body position and posture

should be attached importance to. Only with a

scientific exercise method could it improve the

exercise effect and make Yoga exercise more

significant. First of all, Yoga lays emphasis on the

flexibility, balance and extension of the posture. An

incorrect action could not achieve a good effect,

which in turn, makes muscles and bones lack of

exercise as well as the blood circulation and

endocrine system of the human body not improving.

An excessive exercise which has exceeded the

practical condition would easily lead to sprain, thus

influencing the Yoga exercise and human health.

Therefore, before Yoga exercise, preparations

should be made carefully to ensure the development

of human body flexibility, activity ability and

balance ability. For example, the movement of

bending, lateral bending left and right, jump and

squat before the exercise could increase the standard

capacity of the exercisers effectively and prevent the

injury in the Yoga exercise. Secondly, keep a

protection consciousness of important places, such

as waist protection consciousness. In particular,

sporters who have such waist diseases as chronic

lumbar strain, hyperosteogeny of lumbar vertebrae

should value the protection of the waist, trying to

avoid the injury in the exercise. The health level of

waist muscle-bones could be increased by a step-by-

step approach, thereby improving the health

condition of self waist. Thirdly, Yoga exercise

should attach importance to the individuality and

arrange body position motions according to

individual conditions. On one hand, don’t follow

blindly. Taken personal feelings as a starting point

and gradually improve the movement. When feeling

uncomfortable, body postures should be adjusted so

as to avoid the injury because of hyper motility. On

the other hand, the arrangement and exercise times

of the movement should be attached importance to.

It should be from simple to difficult, from small to

big. Try to avoid physical exhaustion and prevent

the injury brought by improper exercise. Besides, the

strength of the force should added gradually, which

could prevent the sprain and strain caused by

excessive external force. Last but not the least, the

injury should be cured combined with the severity of

the injury. Don’t not care a nut and don’t be too

nervous. For example, general sprain with no severe

symptoms like being red and swollen or be in pain

could recover by means of cold compress and

resting quietly.

3.3 Misunderstandings of Yoga

Exercise

Yoga is very popular among the social masses, but

people’s understanding of Yoga is far from enough.

Many people only have a shallow recognition of

Yoga, which leads to many misunderstandings when

exercising. Firstly, Yoga is only suitable for people

with a fine drawn body. Yoga could improve the

flexibility of human body, making people’s muscle-

bones stronger and more flexible. The flexibility of

the body is the effect and purpose, but not the

prerequisite of Yoga exercise. People without a good

flexibility could improve the stiffness of their

muscle-bones gradually through scientific training,

making the body become soft and tough. Secondly,

Yoga is a kind of female sports, not suitable for

male. Health has no gender restrictions. Men have

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the same right to pursue physical and mental health

as well as long life like women. Yoga is also

beneficial to the unity and harmony of men’s body,

heart and mind, which is as effective in improving

their physical and mental health as well as their

nature and temperament. Thirdly, the purpose of

Yoga is to lose weight. There is no necessity for slim

people to do Yoga. In fact that was not the case. The

purpose of Yoga exercise is the harmony and unity

of body, heart and mind. Though it has a function in

shaping body and losing weight, it just makes the

muscle stronger and tougher, not just for the purpose

of losing weight. Fourthly, the more difficult the

action is, the more effective it will be and the better

it could beautify the curve of the muscle-bones. In

fact, extravagant demands on the difficulty and

perfection of the action during the Yoga exercise

would lead to physical injuries. And it will also be

difficult to guarantee the effect of Yoga exercise.

3.4 Remedy Skills for Skeletal Injuries

during the Yoga Exercise

When your bones get injured during the Yoga

exercise, first of all, don’t panic and don’t rush to

move your body adamantly. Make observation

combined with the pain of the injuries and then take

scientific remedies. Take an ankle injury as example.

The common cases are severe pain of lateral ankle,

limitation of activity, being unable to walk normally

and so on. When injured, the first step is to go to the

hospital to examine the injury in time, ensuring the

scientificity and professionalism of the examination

and treatment. After a period of time, if you still

can’t walk normally or subcutaneous bruises occurs

after twelve hours and the injury feels pain on

pressure, you have to go back to the hospital for a

further diagnosis and treatment. For example, if the

activity ability of ankle joints is poor and abnormal,

you are overbalanced and shaking and the pain

extends from the feet to legs, it might be a ligament

injury. The recovery and treatment of the ligament

should be strengthened. Next in importance, certain

experience in the prevention of skeletal sprain and

strain should be mastered. A general knowledge and

recognition of common skeletal sprain and strain and

a grasp of corresponding remedy knowledge could

ensure a timely treatment of the sprain and strain. In

a word, when doing Yoga exercise, motions and

exercise should be chosen properly combined with

self body conditions, trying to avoid the body

injuries as much as possible.

4 CONCLUSION

In sum, Yoga should be exercised scientifically and

properly with the combination of self-conditions.

And attention should be paid to the relationship

between sports and environment so that you could

gradually improve the skills and ability of practicing

Yoga gradually. In this way, it could bring into full

play the positive significance of Yoga, strengthening

people’s body and mind as well as unifying the

human body, heart and mind in a most natural way.

Meanwhile, hidden dangers should also be laid

emphasis to and the prevention of injury should be

done well, giving full play to the benefits of Yoga

exercise. Nowadays, the positive significance of

Yoga has been widely recognized while its function

in fitness, mind-strengthening and curing of diseases

has obtained continuous development. Under the

influence and support of modern science and

technology, the benefits of Yoga will be developed

more widely, making more significant contributions

to the human health and longevity.

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