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How to protect knee?

How to protect knee?

Knee joint disease is a disease that many elderly people often suffer. With living habits and other reasons, they are getting younger and younger. If they don’t get good care and treatment, they will seriously affect normal life and even lead to disability. Let me tell you about the daily precautions for knee joint disease.
Don’t walk for too long. When the knee joint feels uncomfortable, you should rest immediately. Don’t wear high heels when walking long distances. Wear thick-soled and elastic soft-soled shoes to reduce the impact on the knee joint and avoid the knee joint. Wear occurs.

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In daily life, try to avoid going up and down the stairs, hiking, climbing, standing for a long time, holding less children, and lifting less heavy objects, so as to avoid excessive load on the knee joint and aggravate the condition. Avoid standing up and sitting down suddenly. It is best to bend the knee joint a few times first, and then stand up or sit down to help protect the knee joint.
Before participating in outdoor sports, prepare for activities, gently stretch the knee joints, increase the flexibility and flexibility of the lower limbs, and allow the knee joints to be active before participating in sports. Excessive exercise will increase the stress on the joint surface and increase the wear and tear. Long-term vigorous exercise can also cause excessive stress and traction on the bones and surrounding soft tissues, causing local soft tissue damage and uneven stress on the bones. Therefore, long-term violent stress should be avoided. sports.
Swimming and walking are the best exercises, which neither increase the weight of the knee joint, but also exercise the muscles and ligaments around the knee joint. Secondly, lying on your back, raising your legs, and pedaling the bicycle empty are the best exercises for knee joint diseases.

 

 

 

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Pay attention to your body posture when walking, do not work with your waist twisted, walk with your legs on the side, and avoid prolonged squatting. Daily squatting movements (such as washing clothes, choosing vegetables, and wiping the floor) are best to sit on a small bench. Avoid maintaining a posture for a long time, pay attention to frequent posture changes, and develop a good habit of protecting joints in daily life.
When the temperature drops, the blood vessels of the knee joints contract when cold, and blood circulation becomes worse, which often makes the joints stiff and painful. Therefore, you should keep warm when the weather is cold. You can wear long trousers and knee pads to protect the knee joints. Wear knee pads when necessary. Prevent cold knee joints.
Excessive weight is one of the important reasons that induce degenerative diseases of the spine and joints. Excessive weight will accelerate the wear of articular cartilage and make the pressure on the articular cartilage surface uneven. Therefore, people who are overweight should actively lose weight, and pay attention to diet and weight control.
Once knee joint pain occurs, it should be treated actively, and simple therapies such as hot compress and physical therapy should be adopted. If conservative treatment is ineffective and affects walking and daily life, patients with severe osteoarthritis who have poor arthroscopic treatment can choose joint replacement to restore the joint Function and maintain a good quality of life.
Eat more foods containing protein, calcium, collagen, and isoflavones, such as milk and dairy products, beans and soy products, fish and shrimp, kelp, black fungus, chicken feet, trotters, legs of lamb, tendons, etc. It can replenish protein and calcium to prevent osteoporosis. It can also nourish cartilage and joint fluids. It can also replenish estrogen, so that bones and joints can better metabolize calcium and reduce the symptoms of arthritis.


Post time: Nov-20-2021