Five Suggestions to prevent knee osteoarthritis

ChengTing China's traditional Chinese medicine academy of sciences Beijing hospital

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Knee osteoarthritis in old people especially women in the high rate, according to the survey the disease patients toll accounts for the total population of about 3%, second only to become cardiovascular disease cause work ability reduce loss of life or the second big disease.

        Arthritis, popular said joints is a bone spur steadily. The reason was that the normal wear and tear of articular cartilage degeneration. Articular cartilage no vessels and nerves and lymphatic distribution, not easy to repair after injury, its composition is cartilage cells and collagen fiber, protein polysaccharides and filling water, because move, weight and age of reason cartilage damage, the impact of the joint normal sliding and stable, cause arthritis happen. Like no LiBangQi era of the brush is on the wall, time grew, it is easy pieces fall off, it is the white cartilage, fall off as cartilage damage, and patches of metope is arthritis.

        The cartilage degeneration may be more than 20 years since began, in persons over the age of 50, mostly in X-ray showed lesions on performance, so, deal with osteoarthritis key, is how to prevent lesions influences on the development of life. Although it is not completely prevent osteoarthritis occurs, but by some measures can also reduce or postpone it.

        Reduce weight

        Because of the weight of the knee osteoarthritis patients in recent years, in the patient group of occupied large proportion, remove the genetic and drug factors, the most important inducement which is now the city people's eating habits, overeating eats too good, the taste is partial massiness, total food intake without control and optional, plus little movement, cause the joint stress burden overweight and sick. Like sports in running jump, the power of the knee joint instantaneous bear to human body weight 5 ~ 6 times, if too much weight is joint holding capacity will also N times increase. If the motion after knee pain, the rest after four weeks still don't ease, should consider to joint damage such as cartilage in injury, ligament damage, meniscal injury, and should not continue to think is outside the joint muscle soft tissue injury.

        Try not to wear high heels

        Women love is the stilettos, in order to put them on more graceful posture, designed to bore thin with high, high heel let toes metatarsal stress increase and suffered from extrusion, while creating ankle knee stress increased. Women walking to highlight line, waist and abdomen must keep a balance before, time can cause knee ligament relaxation and cartilage wear. Suggest women wear short love daily or loaded with wide shoes advisable, except in special requirements wear high-heeled shoes, leather shoes outside, life should wear soft bottom shoes to absorb shock and balance the load.

        Avoid cold and humidity big found in the environment

        Meet the cold weather haze, reduce the temperature and humidity of the air increases, can make the knee discomfort and feeling ache and unable to play leg soft, these are the characteristics of knee arthritis. So, conform with the seasonal change clothes, and was added, reduce outdoor activity, avoid the straight blow air conditioning, temperature also shoulds not be too low, to prevent knee arthritis is very helpful. Climate anomalies and living life season poor environment, is causing knee osteoarthritis of external cause. Especially the summer, maintenance of residential office temperature and humidity is particularly important, because of long time air conditioning temperature too low is the main pathogenic external cause.

        Reduce the frequent and long time to go faster

        Many people like to choose mountaineering, climb stairs, walking briskly fitness, but if excessive, also can bring negative effect, the acceleration of the knee joint cartilage wear, cause arthritis happens early. Mountain climbing, such as the movement way and not everyone is appropriate, many patients are doing after climbing osteoarthritis of the surgery. Also there are often the elderly, people lose weight because trot, send a knee pain and cannot bend, accelerate the articular cartilage wear, induced osteoarthritis. Older women female hormone decline due to the body, vulnerable to osteoporosis and thinning of articular cartilage, and become the CuiHe aging, it is not suggested to choose this kind of sport habitual fitness, lest cause and accelerate the articular cartilage wear, induce arthritis. Choose habitual way before exercise, best first to the professional hospital for a bone movement system evaluation, in order to avoid sports injury. Walk exercise is simple and effective, suggested that no more than 100 steps per minute and exercise time does not exceed 1 hour, protect the joints.

        Taking vitamins A, C, E and up the D

        The ratio of women had knee arthritis than in men, especially after menopause due to the body of female hormone decline, cartilage thin brittle don't wear resistance, and at the time of calcium and started to protect the knee is "late".

        So for women, health maintenance in exist, 40 years ago should start aftercare: in addition to control weight, don't greed is cool, reduce climbing, choose the suitable for sports, sunshine, drink more milk, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and complement of vitamin D osteoarthritis have good prevention effect. Especially in the sun, can get vitamin D, this also is the human body the main way to get vitamin D, vitamin D can help human body absorb and absorption of calcium, phosphorus, prevent osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

        Knee osteoarthritis belongs to the category of orthopaedic chronic diseases, the causes from individuals mostly lifestyle. So, appropriate change your lifestyle, can gain health, it is also a pleasant things?