What is osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis, which means aging joints in middle-aged and elderly people, is a chronic degenerative joint disease characterized by progressive damage to joint cartilage. Joint pain is its main symptom.
The significance of physical exercise
Experts suggest that proper exercise should be done after suffering from osteoarthritis, which is beneficial in preventing and treating osteoarthritis.
Life is about exercise, and exercise specifically has many familiar benefits. When suffering from osteoarthritis, life and exercise can be affected.
The exercise principle of no or little weight should be achieved when exercising, with the goal of increasing muscle strength and joint mobility to increase tolerance, reduce fatigue, and enhance the overall ability to resist disease. Thus, to prevent the progression of lesions.
Precautions in exercise
1, stairs need to be slow, climbing needs to be reduced
In real life, some activities can not be avoided, such as going up and down 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. Climbing process for joint damage is more obvious, it is recommended not to take this type of exercise.
2, reduce squatting
Squatting should also support the object to lend strength, so as to reduce the knee joint and skeleton force, to slow down the pain symptoms.
3.Walking
You can also insist on walking for about half an hour every day on a flat road, but also while walking to move the elbow, wrist and all the small joints of the hand. This will help prevent stiffness of the joints and ligaments aging.
4, do not squat horse stance
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 pressed on the cushion when riding a bike, the knee joint is relatively less force, while cycling can maintain the mobility of the joint, the strength of the muscles around the joint can be enhanced.
The best exercise for people with osteoarthritis is swimming. When swimming, the body floats in the water and the joints do not bear the weight, so the load is minimal. The movements of swimming (such as breaststroke) also ensure joint mobility and build muscle strength. Moreover, swimming can enhance the whole body muscle strength and multi-joint activities, so that the heart and lungs and other multi-organ function to exercise, can effectively enhance the ability to resist disease.
6.Bed exercise
You can wake up every morning and before going to sleep at night rhythmically.
You can choose to move the upper limbs first, so that the shoulder, elbow, wrist, 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 before stopping.
If you persist for a long time, you can slow down the aging of joints and ligaments.