"Old product" : warm rest exercise square

WangLiMing The first hospital of nanjing orthopaedic chief physician

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Rustling autumn wind, "old product" more to look out for. "Old product" is knee joint osteoarthritis commonly known as, for the performance of the lower limbs and joints hair is cool, acid bilges numbness, pain and action inconvenience, often in qiu dong is cold and recurrence or aggravating, and years of treatment is invalid. Knee osteoarthritis occurs, and closely related to climate change. So the old man to fall should be especially careful.

        Old product to keep warm, wear thick some clothes and socks. Multi-purpose hot bubble foot, often hot compress knee. Had better not use knee to knee warm, because the knee cap flexibility is very big, used in knee around influence blood circulation, make the knee activities more difficult.

        Must pay attention to the knee joint health care, make reasonable physical exercise, such as tai chi, jogging, and doing all sorts of gymnastics, etc. The elderly to sunshine, pay attention to warm wet, warm, make the knee to rest. Pain relief, the daily the ground a one or two times, each time 20 ~ 30 minutes. Try to reduce the fluctuation of the steps, running and so on to cause the movement of knee joint load, avoid and reduce the wear and tear of articular cartilage, up and down the steps to help the best stairs or stick.

        Like sports old people don't long time in a pose, more do not blind to the knee flexion, rubbing repeatedly patella, shake sway knee movement. Suitable for the elderly specific exercise method is: seat or supine position, will knee unbend, take up a thigh muscle, sufficient to head dorsiflexion, and at the same time, tighten crus muscle, every time adhere to three or four seconds, every minute to be done 10 times, continuous do three or four minutes. Three or four times can do every day. (ZhangChen ChengShouQin finishing)