The Most Effective Exercises for Degenerative Osteoarthritis

There is no absolute most effective exercise for degenerative arthritis, which is caused by overuse or weight-bearing of the joints, and exercise should be done in a way that avoids excessive weight-bearing of the joints. The exercise should avoid excessive weight-bearing exercise of the joints. It can be exercised by aerial bicycling, walking, swimming and other ways.
1. Air pedaling: patients lying down position, lift the legs upward to do air pedaling bicycle movement. Exercise for 10-20 minutes each time. It helps to strengthen the muscle strength of quadriceps, promote the absorption of joint fluid, maintain the stability of the knee joint and reduce the symptoms of joint inflammation.
2. Walking: you need to start with slow walking, that is, slow walking, not fast walking, the general speed control in 60 steps per minute, if walking too fast, it will make the joint bone surface impact, resulting in injury or aggravation of the condition. General daily exercise 0.5 hours can be.
3. Swimming: because the buoyancy of water can relieve the pressure of gravity on the joints of the body, so that the muscles can be relaxed, so the patient appropriate swimming exercise, the recovery of degenerative osteoarthritis has a certain role in promoting.
Patients need to exercise under the guidance of a doctor, so as not to exercise in an inappropriate way caused by the body damage.