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"Yoga is actually a great strategy for taking away cramps, because it works the pelvic floor muscles on both sides of the sacrum, the lower pelvic floor, and the rectus abdominis muscles that all surround the uterus," said Heather Bartos, MD, an ob-gyn and certified yoga instructor. Cramps occur because, she explained, pulling on those surrounding muscles to do so.
Yoga stretches out those stressed muscles, which helps them help your uterus do its job better and can end up"If we think about how period cramps are essentially 'labor' pains that are trying to rid your body of menstruation, then these yoga poses all make sense because they are working the back and pelvic muscles into different positions to prevent overcramping," Dr. Bartos told POPSUGAR."Kind of like how we stretch before we lift weights.
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