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| Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
You can get audio or video tapes that give instruction to teach breathing and relaxation techniques at health food stores, bookshops and by mail. It is probably fine to learn breathing and relaxation from a tape or booklet, but do not try yoga exercises without qualified teachers. He or she can make corrections, caution you if necessary, and help you adapt poses, if you need it.
It will be useful for you to spend some time to find an instructor who is good for you. Your diabetes nurse educator or other health professional May be able to recommend a yoga instructor. Get references for a yoga instructor, as you would for any professional could you want.
Yoga instructors are not required to be certified, but many people through many different programs. Ask teachers if they are certified. A certified teacher is not necessarily better than someone who is not certified, but it's something to consider.
Yoga is fun, healthy, and appeasement. It is a wisdom handed down over thousands of years. There is little danger in yoga, and even a little progress brings with it freedom and peace of mind.
Although most people with diabetes can exercise safely, exercise involves certain risks. To change the benefit-risk for you to take these precautions:
Have a medical examination before beginning your exercise program, including an exercise test with an ECG monitoring, especially if you have cardiovascular disease, you are more than 35 years, you have high blood pressure or high cholesterol You smoke or if you have a family history of heart disease.
Talk to your doctor of any unusual symptoms that you experience during or after exercise, such as discomfort in the chest, neck, jaw or arms, nausea, dizziness, fainting or excessive shortness of breath, or short-term changes in vision.
If you have diabetes-related complications, check with your health care team about special precautions. Consider the performance of a medically supervised program, at least initially, if you have peripheral vascular disease, retinopathy, neuropathy autonomous or kidney problems.
Learn to prevent and treat low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). If you take oral agents or insulin, monitor your blood sugar before, during and after exercise.
If you have type I, and your blood sugar is above 250 milligrams per deciliter, check your urine for ketones. Do not exercise if ketones are present, because the exercise will increase your risk of ketoacidosis and coma.
Always warm up and cool.
Do not exercise outdoors when the weather is too hot and humid or too cold. |
posted by neptunus @ 4:16 AM
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