How to slow knee degeneration

Rednet (2018-10-29

Red net senior citizen channel October 29 (correspondent Yang liuqing) with the growth of age, many senior citizens suffer from knee pain, which severely affects their daily life and can lead to paralysis. As a result of motion inappropriateness or other external cause effect, a lot of middle age people also have the problem of knee joint ache now, so how should medium old people protect knee joint? On October 27, gong zhixian, professor and deputy chief physician of orthopedics in the first affiliated hospital of hunan university of traditional Chinese medicine, presented a lecture on traditional Chinese medicine knowledge on joint pain -- prevention and treatment of arthritis to the students of huaxia road campus of happy old people university.

Eat calcium piece much exercise can treat knee joint ache

Knee joint is an important part of controlling physical action. Many people believe that knee joint pain is related to age and is a normal manifestation of aging. In fact, most of the pain is caused by osteoarthritis of the knee.

Eat calcium piece much exercise can treat knee joint ache? Huang told everybody, normal of the surface of the knee joint is about 3 ~ 5 mm thick white transparent cartilage, it is elastic, although with the growth of the age of cartilage will gradually wear thin, but if inappropriate or excessive activity, will accelerate cartilage damage, so simple to eat calcium tablet and can't repair cartilage damage, and can make the cartilage regeneration found drugs, drug just alleviate symptoms, slow degeneration of one of the way. Sport is a good medicine, science is the most effective strategy to reduce chronic noncommunicable diseases, but for people with knee osteoarthritis, during exercise should pay attention to protect the articular cartilage, avoid doing squats load-bearing, act quickly up and down the stairs, high strength against movement, rock climbing, weightlifting, sprint, such as the strength and wear sports, daily life, should be less strenuous exercise, such as stairs, climbing, at the same time pay attention to the squatting pan toilet, cold wind.

The best doctor is himself

How to slow the degeneration of the knee joint? Gong zhixian gives advice to everyone, 1. Under the guidance of the doctor, you can take some ammonia sugar or chondroitin, which is conducive to the protection and repair of cartilage; 2. 2. Control weight and reduce joint load; 3. Moderate muscle strength training, back against wall squats, such as long contraction muscle strength training of rectus femoris, and evidence-based medical evidence showed that leg muscle strength increased by 15% and knee joint pain relieved by 50%; Scientific sports such as swimming, running, tai chi, and cycling, but be careful, do not walk more than 10,000 steps a single time, and walk in moderation; 5. Use auxiliary tools such as walking stick and walker to reduce the pressure of affected joints and increase stability; Medicinal food and tonic, often drink yam spareribs soup.

Gong zhixian pointed out that the best doctors are themselves, their own health, the best medicine is time, not impatient and patient, the best health care is a smile, a peaceful mind and a kind heart, the best exercise is walking, scientific exercise to raise knees. After class, gong also gave students a free clinic on the spot and gave treatment Suggestions for individual cases.