A student in my Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre classes has always found hip work somewhat challenging on one side. She has been coming to class for 50 weeks now, rarely missing a class.
She says that her hip has stopped hurting so she doesn't need to take painkillers any more and wonders if it could be the yoga.
I ask for a bit more detail. She says that she had been having hip pain and had done an online consultation with a doctor during lockdown who had prescribed painkillers and, from what she was saying, the doctor said that a hip replacement did sound a possibility going forwards.
I ask her if anything else has changed and she says no, but that she has always had a dog to walk.
I say that in that case it probably is down to the yoga and that the deeper movements of the hips and the corresponding stretching we make in class could well have made the more normal movements she makes in her day-to-day life pain-free.