Autumn hold old product

The first hospital of nanjing orthopaedic chief physician WangLiMing

Sources: health

        In autumn, the weather turn cold gradually, at this time, there is old with product should be very careful. Knee osteoarthritis commonly known as old product, for the performance of the lower limbs and joints hair is cool, acid bilges numbness, pain and action inconvenience, often because of qiu dong is cold and recurrence or aggravating, and years of treatment is invalid.

        The knee is the range of activity great weight joints, almost under the weight of the whole body. People to old age later, knee joint due to years of wear, the most easy ageing, aging of knee joint osteoarthritis occurred after the probability is opposite bigger, so the elderly fall should pay special attention to the protection of the knee joint.

        Old people fall to keep warm, bathing in the hot water scrubbing, multi-purpose hot bubble foot, often hot compress knee. Use less as far as possible knee, because the knee cap flexibility is very big, used in knee easily affected by nearby blood circulation, make the knee activities more difficult. Reasonable physical exercise, such as tai chi, jogging, gymnastics, etc. No knee pain or pain relief, suggest the elderly daily the ground a 1 ~ 2 times, each time 20 ~ 30 minutes. Try to reduce the fluctuation of the steps, such as the movement of knee joint load running, in order to avoid or reduce the wear and tear of articular cartilage, necessary steps up and down stairs or use best walking stick. Like sports old people don't long time in a pose, more do not blindly doing repeatedly knee flexion, rubbing patella, shake sway knee movement.

        Suitable for the elderly 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 the 3 ~ 4 seconds, every minute to be done 10 times, continuous do 3 ~ 4 minutes, every day can repeat 3 ~ 4 times. (ZhangChen ChengShouQin finishing)