I just want to know whether to wear autumn pants or not After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather is getting cooler. A loving mother would say, “It’s getting cold, remember to add clothes.” When mom says clothes, she means autumn pants, right? Mom’s reason must be “If you don’t wear them, you’ll get arthritis later.” Is that right? What is arthritis? Can cold and cold cause arthritis? In this issue, the Medray Joint Surgery Center shares some facts about the relationship between cold and arthritis.
What is arthritis?
Arthritis in medical terms includes a large category of joint diseases. Arthritis, as it is commonly referred to, is technically called osteoarthritis, also known as degenerative bone and joint disease, or wear-and-tear arthritis, or wear and tear arthritis, in English. The following content refers to this type of osteoarthritis.
Arthritis is very common and almost everyone has one or two people around them who have arthritis, especially grandmothers who suffer most from it.
Arthritis can occur in almost all joints, but it is common in the knee, hip, lumbar spine, neck, and finger joints, with the knee joint being the most common.
Is there a high incidence of arthritis in people living in colder areas?
Many people think that cold is the cause of arthritis. Many people also think that moving to a warmer place will cure arthritis because they are away from the cold climate. Is this really the case? Let the data speak for itself.
A 2009 CDC statistic shows that the incidence of joint disease is not related to climate.
The United States is at a similar latitude as our country, with different climates from north to south and east to west. You see, the incidence of arthritis is the same in warm California residents as it is in freezing Illinois. Hot Florida is the same as Alaska, where it’s cold all year. The incidence of arthritis in Maine, which is extremely cold, is the same as that in Alabama, which is hot.
Is arthritis because you don’t keep warm enough?
You might say it’s because the United States is a developed country and people in cold places do a better job of protecting their joints from the cold and do a better job of keeping their joints warmer than people in warmer places in the South.
Then let’s switch the perspective and go back to Asia.
We have seen a lot of images, the streets of Japan, the cold wind and snow in the bare legs wearing mini skirts of Japanese female high school students is impressive. Japanese children, from childhood, the school uniform is a short skirt. Little girls for the sake of beauty, winter also deliberately rolled up the skirt to reveal the bare knees and calves. We saw not only shiver for these children.
The conservative women of Wuchuan, an economically backward region of China, spend the winter wrapped in bulky old cotton pants at the same latitude as the developed and fashionable Tokyo.
Is the incidence of arthritis in adults higher for Tokyo women who are often exposed to the cold than for women in the Takigawa area?
In 2009, the University of Tokyo in Japan did a statistic: the prevalence of knee arthritis among women in the Tokyo area was 24.3% and 35.2% in the 50-59 age group and 60-69 age group, respectively.
During the same period, statistics from Renmin University of China showed that the incidence of knee osteoarthritis in women in the Wuchuan area was 13% in the 50-59 age group and 40% in the 60-69 age group.
As you can see, the incidence rate for women over 60 years old is higher for Takigawa women than for Tokyo women. Because the Japanese medical system is well established, the percentage of women who seek medical treatment should be much higher than in the Takigawa area. There should be many more women in the Takigawa area who do not go to the hospital and are not diagnosed and treated and do not enter the statistics.
Grandma said her old cold leg can predict the weather?
But in real life, almost everyone has one or two elders like that around them, and when it comes to climate change or even the eve of a rainstorm, he or she always predicts it in advance because “my knees tell me.” The English language even has this proverb “Aches and pains, coming rains (pains and pains, coming rains). Is this true?
Most scientific studies have come to the conclusion that there is no confirmation, so the word “possible” is used. Although many studies have confirmed the existence of this association, a 1985 double-blind trial concluded the opposite, showing that there was no connection between the perceived symptoms of arthritis and actual weather changes.
But it is true that many people have testified that cold or rain and snow can worsen arthritis symptoms. Why is this so?
One possible explanation is that the exacerbation may not be caused by the cold, but most likely by the change in atmospheric pressure that occurs before a rainstorm. Before a rainstorm, the air pressure drops, causing the tissue around the joint to expand and therefore irritate the knee joint.
Another possible explanation is that the muscles and blood vessels of the knee joint and the cartilage of the bones are of different densities and do not contract to the same degree as the cold, and the resulting slight strain can cause the pain to increase.
Listen to your mother and wear fall pants?
Cold does not cause arthritis, but keeping warm helps relieve the symptoms of arthritis. In fact, there’s nothing wrong with keeping warm in cold weather, no matter which way you look at it, not to mention that keeping warm helps relieve arthritis.
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