Exercise is widely used in the treatment of various chronic diseases to improve physical function and quality of life.
Patients with psoriasis can also engage in reasonable exercise, which can help enhance their metabolic ability, promote the improvement of symptoms and facilitate the recovery of the disease.
First, why is exercise beneficial to the condition of psoriasis patients?
First of all, we should know that the occurrence of psoriasis is related to factors such as infection, cold and emotional stimulation, while exercise can enhance physical fitness, improve the body’s resistance to various diseases and reduce the chance of cold and other upper respiratory tract infections.
Secondly, outdoor exercise exposes patients to more ultraviolet rays of sunlight, and in most cases, sun exposure is beneficial in reducing the disease.
In addition, exercise also helps patients broaden their horizons and regulate their mood, while accelerating the excretion of metabolites from the skin and improving microcirculation.
Therefore, for psoriasis patients, correct exercise is beneficial to the condition.
Second, how can psoriasis patients exercise correctly? There are instructions!
1, choose the right way of exercise: psoriasis patients exercise to low intensity, continuous, and slow, etc. The exercise can choose outdoor taijiquan, practice eight duanjin, jogging, walking and cycling.
In addition, cat bow waist stretching, single-leg standing, ladder stepping training, hamstring stretching, turning squatting, up-step kicking, etc. are all indoor low-intensity exercise methods, which can also be carried out during household chores and work breaks, and it is not recommended to play badminton, long-distance running, basketball, soccer and other strenuous sports.
2, maintain a reasonable intensity of exercise: low-intensity intermittent exercise has a good impact on health, and patients are instructed to control the intensity of exercise through heart rate and subjective exertion feeling during exercise.
Insist on exercising 60 minutes a day, at least 5 days a week, which can be done gradually according to their own situation. Exercise to control the whole body heat and sweating rhythm, a long time to keep the body fever sweat-free state.
3, choose the appropriate exercise environment: outdoor activities sunshine to be good, air quality is excellent or general when the exercise.
No conditions for outdoor sports, indoor sports need to pay attention to the environment is not cloudy, not damp, warm, ventilation. Do not immediately enter the cold environment after exercise, pay attention to keep warm and not subject to wind.
Third, what are the precautions for psoriasis patients when exercising?
1, pay attention to gradual progress, do not high-intensity, eager to achieve, so as not to sweat too much, stimulate the skin lesions, aggravate the disease.
2, after exercise can be moderately supplemented with light salt water, supplemented with a small amount, multiple times, slow drink as a principle, in order to avoid deficiency.
3, when exercising, pay attention to the outdoor temperature changes to increase or reduce clothing, exercise should not take off too much at once, should wait for the body to heat up, before taking off too much clothing; exercise should not wear sweaty clothes in the cold wind stay, to prevent the body from catching a cold, and then aggravate the disease.
4, psoriasis patients with reduced muscle extension, joint physiological mobility, so before each exercise should pay attention to do a good job of preparing stretching activities, so as not to cause muscle, tendon, ligament and joint sports injuries.
5.Patients who have already developed psoriatic arthritis symptoms should not exercise blindly, but should exercise under the guidance of a doctor and pay attention to joint protection when exercising to avoid trauma.
References
[1]Zhang F,Sun J,Zhang YD. Effect of microsweating low-intensity exercise intervention on body surface temperature and sweating in patients with psoriasis [J]. Nursing Research,2020,34(13):2415-2417.