< span>When your knee hurts or has unexplained pain, sometimes your doctor will advise you not to do too much activity at first to avoid aggravating your symptoms, and sometimes your doctor will encourage you to move properly without worrying too much. This “double standard” exists in many medical decisions. As a doctor, the pursuit is to maximize the overall effect. For most patients, the pursuit of minimizing immediate pain is more of a priority. For knee joint discomfort, whether to exercise or rest, it is not your own feelings that have the final say, but to listen to the professional guidance of doctors.
When should I exercise?
The running water is not rotten, and the hinge of the house is not beetle. The knee joint is like a cog in that it gradually degenerates with prolonged inactivity. General physicians encourage patients to maintain moderate activity as long as the activity does not make knee pain worse.
Exercise has many benefits for the knee joint. Through the rotation of the joint, the local swelling and inflammation can be removed more quickly Lose weight, strengthen the ligaments and muscle groups around the joint, reduce the weight to a certain extent, thereby reducing the load on the knee joint, and so on.
Generally speaking, patients with knee osteoarthritis can do about 30 minutes of low-intensity aerobic exercise a day, and exercise muscles twice a week. Strength training and balance exercises three times a week. In this way, the function of the knee joint will be continuously improved, and the temporary pain will be relieved as soon as possible due to exercise.
When should I rest?
Although exercise plays a very important role in the recovery of knee joint function, if you feel pain in the knee joint during exercise, it is recommended that you stop. Exercise to give your joints enough time to rest and recover.
Exercise is generally not recommended for a few days after the injury and when the joints are red, swollen and painful in the acute stage of arthritis
span>, the main task at this time is to relieve pain and eliminate local inflammation, and exercise will not help improve symptoms, but also aggravate local inflammation.
In the transition period from resting to resuming exercise, you can go to the swimming pool to start recovery training. Whether swimming or walking in the pool, buoyancy will reduce the burden on the knee joint during exercise, the resistance of the water flow can help strengthen the muscles, and pool training can allow the joints to return to movement as soon as possible while being protected.
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