The arthritis patient needs light sports

The arthritis patient needs light sports
Q: My father is 78 years old this year, there is arthritis all the year round, conditions are sometimes good and sometimes bad. He go out seldom at ordinary times, I it thinks to be method like this, know, should let how about sport it will be he? Hereby ask.

Ms. Yu in Pudong New Area

A: Bone arthritis is irreversible one of a joint returned and changed, the most common one is arthritis of the knee joint. Its morbidity is in close relation with age, there is 5% morbidity in the crowd under the age of 35, but there is greater than 70% morbidity over 65.

Osteoarthrosis not only brings a great deal of inconvenience to the patient's daily life, the cost that but also treat and measures is relatively big. If delay treating, may cause the patient to be difficult to pain to bear, take action limited, oppression ulcer, fracture,etc..

Right amount of sports are to lighten the painful effective method of the joint. The gentle sports that the patient can choose activity to be little, such as taking a walk, where it is moves waist, hip or four limbs,etc., make the joint all over get the activity.

Recommend a simple and effective joint exercise method here:

1,It is flat for the patient to lie on the bed, two lower extremities are stretched, make the bending of two knee joints and stretch sports respectively, the similar kicking movements in bed, 30 to 50 times each time. Adapt to, raise the lower extremities separately, and then do the above-mentioned activity.

2,The patient support horizontal bar in hands, a kick is lifted, do the front and back kicking movements of the shank respectively, have strengthened the range, efforts, frequency of kicking gradually. This kind of exercising way efforts is moderate, have overcome the weight of limbs effectively, simple and convenient, can relieve limbs and retreat and turn into and the joint is stiff, strengthen the muscular strength of the big shank, improve the stability of the joint, reduce bone quantity to run off, prevent osteoporosis.

A lot of bone arthritis patients fear pain, is afraid sports aggravate the condition without daring to move about, this is apt to accelerate the condition to develop instead. Because lacking sports not only will aggravate the stiff sense of muscles and the joint, will accelerate the degradation of the joint, make the condition worsen. But excessive sports are not likewise scientific. We do not recommend the old man in order to temper the joint, go to climb, step on the floor sedulously, this will aggravate the retreating and changing of the joint. The meaning of cherishing joint is to use it rationally.

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The arthritis patient needs light sports