What is osteoarthritis? As the saying goes, “people get old before their legs get old”, osteoarthritis is one of the most representative degenerative diseases of the middle-aged and elderly, and is a chronic degenerative joint disease characterized by progressive damage (degeneration, destruction and osteophytes) to joint cartilage.
Joint pain is the main symptom. The joints play a role in the human body in governing physical activity. 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. Life exercise precautions 1, up and down the stairs need to be slow In practice, some activities can not be avoided, such as 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. Walking 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. 2, reduce squatting. Squatting should also support the object to lend strength, so as to reduce the knee and skeletal stress, to slow the pain symptoms. Do not squat when playing taijiquan when playing taijiquan, suffering from osteoarthritis of the knee should not squat horse stance. 3, bicycles can also take a bike ride, because most of the weight of the body pressed on the cushion, 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. 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.