Indian orthopaedic surgeon warns that yoga may result in knee joint damage.
Dr. Ashok Rajagopal, chair man of the Bone and Joint Institute in Medanta, The Medcity warned that practice of certain yoga like vajrasana may cause damage to knee joint and require total knee replacement.
He said that many yoga gurus have been performed with total replacement of knee for pain and inability for smooth movements.
His warnings challenge yoga which is now a multi-billion pound global industry.
However, teachers like Baba Ramdev of India who has built a worldwide empire through yoga. He believes that even HIV and cancer could be treated by breathing exercises.
U.S. is spending billions of money every year on yoga and it has 15 million people are regular practitioners.
In Rajagopal’s practice, he has seen many patients having the knee pain and ailments related with knee in the yoga followers.
He warned that yoga may hurt the joints of legs and may lead to arthritis.
Rajgopal said “Many yoga gurus have undergone knee replacement surgeries with us because of this excess wear and tear,”
He went on explaining that while doing yoga like vajrasana there is a need for frequent stretching and bending the knee which actually dislocates the knees.
“When deep bends are done, the pressure falls on the cartilage that leads to degeneration of the knee joints leading to incidence of knee arthritis,” he said.
THIS DR. SHOULD BE HANGED FOR TELLING THIS !!!
This is a kind of news the world selected communities were waiting for
as the controversy on Yoga practice deepen more. It is unfortunate on several grounds. Dr Rajgopal has expressed his personal opinion which is of no scietific value in the first place. What has prompted Rajgopal to come to air his views in the public media is highly unethical in the first place. This amounts to self propaganda to advertise himself publicly on baseless grounds of a ‘opinion’ that has no more value than a propaganda. He is playing himself a pawn for misleading the common man.
To put the point home, Vajrasan is a definite “Asana” practiced but it has its own role in a set situation with set rules. There are people practice these yoga exercises on half knowledge or after self styled yoga gurus who are themselves unaware and that result in the damage. Dr. Rajgopal should have recourced to a definite and comparative scientific study conducted under a well formed group of organisation before highlighting in the media and cause more damage to a well established entire system without he being himself aware of.
God bless
Dr. O. P. Sudrania
Dear respectfully Dr. Raj Gopal,
its surprising that you mentioned that one can patient of arthritis while practising yoga. Further you mentioned about a particular asana called “Vajrasana”. Which means a thunderbolt posture, for knee replacement among yoga gurus. Lets define “Vajrasana” for your knowledge. Which is
1. A meditation posture for a Muslim community, they pray in this posture for five times a day. Are they world wide (ALL OF THEM) are your knee replacement clients.
2. This is one of the popular posture for Japanese, as their, “Tea Ceremony” posture. Are they worldwide (ALL OF THEM) are your knee replacement clients.
3. The Jain sadhaka are also used to sit in this posture for a long time in hours, while they are in prayers, Are they world wide (ALL OF THEM) are your knee replacement clients.
a general benefit, while sitting in this posture is to straightens of the spine, good after, any meals for digestion, strengthening and toniifications of lower back with abdominal organs.
Please in future, before you comment any issue, do take care to put focus on global level, rather than speaking on your few personal cases . Please also do keep in mind that, any thing posted on Internet is Global, not on your personal desk. Do good amount of home work, before you post any global comments for any community.
Regards
Sanjeev Kumar
(Yoga Guru)
Chandigarh
India
Dear Rajagopal,
You are a Dr. Are any doctors are become a patient? YEs then why did you blaming on Yoga Guru?
You are selling the treatment and aiming the profit only but YOGA gurus are not.
You may tell the the ayurvedic medicine also harm full for human bodies?. Can you tell any of the English medicine which have no any side affect??
Is all the patient are treated by you are 100% recovered? NO! then what is the motivation to blaming yoga gurus?
You do not think all the people are not foolish ed by all the time.
Though, this view may be undoubted, but I think the point of yoga guru is to be stressed here. Yoga gurus tend to overdo it in some way as they tend to have several batches of students. So obviously that brings in a lot of wear and tear. This may not be applicable to general population, who have other things to do apart from yoga.
Getting into a fit of yoga and starting directly with difficult asanas like vajrasan can definitely cause tearing of ligaments.
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