A friend who has been listening to me ramble on for over a year now about how marvellous yoga is recently sent me a link to an article featured in Time magazine last year.
Titled ‘When Yoga Hurts’ the article ‘hightlights’ a rise in yoga-related injuries in America. So should I give it up? Is it damaging my health?
Apparently over three years 13,000 Americans were treated in an emergency room or a doctor’s office for yoga-related injuries. Now before I pack away my yoga mat, in context this means about 0.004 per cent of Americans had a yoga-related injury. Hmmm, not really very worrying?
The article goes on to say that people often injure themselves when they don’t know what they’re doing. Yes well, they would wouldn’t they? There’s no wisdom in spouting common sense. I find bad journalism very, very irritating.
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