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"You must keep your body healthy, your temple pure--if you're sick or you die, how are you going to fulfill your destiny and experience the joy and well-being you deserve?  Your body knows how to heal itself, and when you practice your Bikram Yoga, you will experience optimum, radiant health for the first time."  
 
- Bikram Choudhury
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KNEE INJURY

 

 

 

Knee injury with lateral release and scoping surgery planned and subsequently canceled due to intensive 30-day Bikram practice.

 

I was on a wildfire assignment up in Washington's northern Cascades when I went down, and my right knee cap was later shown via MRI to be riding on the right side of the normal joint movement area presumably due to tight muscles and tendons, combined with some tweaking while walking on steeps slopes cross country. I was prescribed lateral release surgery on the right tendons connecting to "IT" band, and scoping beneath knee cap.

 

I started doing Bikram because I wanted to be in the best shape I could be in before going into surgery to facilitate a quicker recovery so I could return to fighting fire the following summer. I had been told my recovery would take at least 10 weeks. I had no idea that 4 weeks of Bikram would get me out of knee surgery. Read more... 

So many ways to say,
 "LOCK THE KNEE!" 

"Lock your knee" in different languages
 
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Austin has a great sense of community, and we are taking advantage of our love for
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Cheers to an awesome 2012!

 

Sincerely,
 

The Yoga Team
Pure Bikram Yoga