Arthritis patients always have a concern whether they can travel. Will traveling aggravate the disease? How can I prevent it? In fact, arthritis patients can travel and enjoy the beautiful scenery safely with proper preventive care measures. What are the triggers to avoid? First of all, patients with acute painful arthritis should not travel, and should only travel during the remission period. 1, walking too long: walking distance is too long, or if the activity is strenuous, resulting in excessive activity of the lower limbs, easily caused by fatigue. Especially mountain climbing activities or to walk a lot of steps, will make the joints under excessive load, inducing disease. 2, too much weight: carrying too heavy a bag during travel will increase the weight on the joints, which can easily lead to joint damage and induce will aggravate arthritis. 3, humid, low-temperature environment: around rivers, lakes and seas, the air is humid, which can easily induce arthritis; coupled with the large temperature difference in the fall, the morning and evening temperatures are low, the stimulation of low temperatures can also induce arthritis. Everyone has different sensitivities to environmental factors, so whether it’s humidity or low temperatures, patients with arthritis must take greater precautions. The onset of arthritis is usually a gradual onset under the influence of triggering factors, so paying attention to early signals and timely prevention can prevent further development of the disease. 1, muscle soreness: when muscle soreness occurs, it means that the exercise is too much, muscle fatigue has appeared, if not timely rest to relieve fatigue, may cause more serious consequences. 2, walking limp: this is the onset of knee and hip lesions signal, patients once the walking limp situation, rest in time, experienced people can use preventive medicine, if necessary, go to the hospital. 3, pain: pain, especially joint pain, is already a signal of an acute attack of arthritis, patients should immediately rest, external or internal medication, if necessary, consult a specialist. 4, self-protection measures during travel to do a good job of self-care, can avoid arthritis acute, the following are some effective protective measures: 1, brace a cane crutches are usually used by people with mobility problems to assist walking, but not lost for arthritis patients when traveling a good tool to reduce the weight of the joints. Therefore, it is recommended that arthritis patients, even if the walking convenience may also wish to crutches, do not be afraid to look unsightly, in fact, very good for preventive health care. Patients with knee lesions can also wear a knee brace, the knee joint to play a certain role in warmth and restraint, so as to achieve the purpose of protection. 2. Keep warm in the morning and evening In October, the weather turns cooler in the morning and evening, while the temperature at noon is still a bit hot, so you should not treat them equally, but pay attention to the change in temperature and strengthen the warmth in the morning and evening. 3, soak feet before bed Walking all day, and then good legs and feet will be tired, bubble feet with hot water at night, can promote blood circulation in the lower limbs, which is conducive to recovery from fatigue. 4, self-compression Even healthy people, walking more often than not, there is also a feeling of soreness and swelling of the calves, travel outside, may wish to use the midway rest time or night, self-rubbing knee muscles, from top to bottom, repeated dozens of times. You can also use the distal acupuncture point method in Chinese medicine to find a place near the elbow joint that is obviously sore and painful, and press it for a minute or two.