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Could Yoga Be Practiced When Diagnosed With Tachyarrhythmia?

I have been a yoga practitioner for eleven years. In the last two years I developed tachyarrhythmias. I had a failed ablation last year due to the phrenic nerve being too close to the tachycardia. Do you think I should continue to practice yoga, or do you think that the labored breathing of yoga affects the phrenic nerve, which in turn causes the arrhythmias?
A reply is much appreciated.
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You absolutely should continue your practice of yoga. The breathing exercise does not endanger the phrenic nerve. The location is such that an ablation in very specific location of the left atrium can injure it. That was the concern. The nerve is similarly located in all of us and is not a source of the rhythm disturbance.
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Could Yoga Be Practiced When Diagnosed With Tachyarrhythmia?

You absolutely should continue your practice of yoga. The breathing exercise does not endanger the phrenic nerve. The location is such that an ablation in very specific location of the left atrium can injure it. That was the concern. The nerve is similarly located in all of us and is not a source of the rhythm disturbance.