Osteoarthritis is one of the most representative degenerative diseases of the middle-aged and elderly, characterized by progressive damage to joint cartilage (degeneration, destruction and osteophytes) and is a chronic degenerative joint disease. Joint pain is the main symptom.
Main joints affected: knee joint
Why do physical exercise
People cannot stand without bones and cannot live without joints. Joints play a role in the human body to govern physical activities. When suffering from osteoarthritis, life and exercise can be affected. Experts suggest that proper exercise should be done after suffering from osteoarthritis, which is beneficial in preventing and treating osteoarthritis.
The exercise principle of no or less weight should be achieved when exercising to enhance muscle strength and joint mobility to increase tolerance, reduce fatigue and enhance the overall ability to resist the disease. Thus, to prevent the progress of the disease.
The precautions in life exercise
1.Go up and down stairs slowly
In practice, some activities can not be avoided, such as going up and down the stairs and squatting. When going up and down the stairs, you can take the method of slow walking, one level up and down, while pulling the handrail.
2.Walking
You can also insist on walking for about half an hour every day on a flat road, but also walk while moving the elbows, wrists and hands of various small joints. This will help prevent stiffness and aging of joints and ligaments.
3, reduce squatting
Squatting should also support the object to lend strength, so as to reduce the knee joint and skeleton force, slow down the pain
symptoms.
4, do not squat horse stance when playing taijiquan
When playing taijiquan, people suffering from osteoarthritis of the knee should not squat horse stance.
5, bicycle walk
You can also take a bike ride, because most of the weight of the body is pressed into the cushion when riding a bike, the knee joint is relatively less force, while cycling can maintain the mobility of the joints, the strength of the muscles around the joints can be enhanced.
Exercises for people with osteoarthritis
The best exercise program for people with osteoarthritis is swimming. When swimming, the body floats in the water and the joints do not bear weight, so the load is minimal. Moreover, swimming can enhance the whole body muscle strength and multi-joint activities, so that the heart and lungs and other multi-organ functions are exercised, which can effectively enhance the ability to resist diseases.
As with swimming, you can actually do similar stretching exercises to swimming in bed every day, which can be done rhythmically every morning after waking up and at night before going to sleep. You can choose to move the upper limbs first, so that the shoulders, elbows, wrists, finger joints, internal rotation, external rotation, up and down, and then the same way to move the lower limbs, each time adhere to about half an hour, until the body slightly sweating to stop. If you persist for a long time, you can slow down the aging of joints and ligaments.