Climbing stairs appropriately does not cause much damage to the joints, while climbing stairs repeatedly over a long period of time causes more damage to the joints.
For the movement of climbing stairs, if it is occasionally appropriate to climb stairs, the damage to the joints is relatively small, and help to increase the flexibility of the bone and joints, to avoid the phenomenon of rigidity, and enhance the strength of muscles and ligaments.
If long-term repeated stair climbing, the damage to the joints is relatively large, especially for the knee joint, easy to cause the cartilage inside the joints for a long time friction, extrusion, causing cartilage degeneration, and even ligament laxity, rupture of the situation. Meniscus injury, osteoarthritis, osteophytes, etc. may also occur, with obvious swelling, deformity and activity limitation.
It is recommended that patients should pay attention to the appropriate activities of climbing stairs, if there is knee discomfort, but have to climb stairs can wear a knee brace to fix the knee joint to reduce the wear and tear of the cartilage in the joint. If the knee joint pain is obvious or there is knee popping, or the knee joint strangulation symptoms, it is recommended that the hospital consultation, under the guidance of the doctor treatment.