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Pain in back and rib cage after starting new yoga class?

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Dr. Mark Johnson answered

Specializes in Aesthetic Medicine

Muscle use & pain: Yoga strains your muscles as it conditions them and also requires increased flexibility. Most likely you have not used these particular muscles and they are healing normally from the new stresses you have placed on them, similar to lifting weights and having soreness.

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Answered 5/6/2019

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