Yoga is particularly good at helping to reduce recurring injuries. Often when people get injured the area that is damaged remains susceptible to more injuries as the tissue and muscle has been weakened by the injury.

By doing yoga exercises that specifically target the area of the injury, that part of the body and all the supporting muscles can be strengthened to help reduce the chance of the injury occurring again.

Often there are also factors that contributed to the injury in the first place, where there was a weakness that would get injured easily.

This can be brought about by something as simple as a slight imbalance from one side of the body to the other where without noticing the person is constantly compensating for that imbalance. Rather than bring back the balance and thereby sort out this problem the compensation for the problem often reduces its resilience to injury further.

There is another problem that faces people who have had injuries and that is referred to as muscle memory. Muscle memory can cause the body to regularly fall to injury in the same area of the body and through the same actions that caused the injury in the first place. Yoga is a powerful way to break this muscle memory just as it does with the mind in breaking bad habits.

A good yoga instructor will also be able to see where there are areas of misalignment that could be the cause of many of the problems. If the spine and the rest of the body are in alignment then there is less likelihood of recurring injuries.

Similar to the teachings of people who use the Alexander Technique to bring about alignment in the body thereby reducing injuries, yoga does this by the poses and exercises that help to strengthen any weaknesses as they become apparent.