Arthritis prevention brochure

[Core tip] More than 90% of arthritis-related injuries and acute attacks can be avoided in advance through daily behavioral adjustments. There is no need to wait for joint deformation and unbearable pain to start intervention.

Aunt Zhang from the community downstairs was dancing in the square last week. She squatted down to pick up the fan that fell on the ground. She couldn't stand up for a long time. She was sent to the orthopedics department for an acute attack of knee arthritis. The doctor said that she usually climbs the fifth floor to buy groceries every day. She also always wears 3cm small leather shoes when doing dance exercises. The hidden danger of joint wear has been buried for a long time. This time it just happened to trigger the pain switch. Don’t think that arthritis is only for the elderly. I have been in outpatient clinics for almost 10 years, and the youngest patient I have ever seen was only 22 years old. He was a fitness enthusiast. In order to practice his legs, he blindly squatted with heavy weights. His movements were not done correctly. His patella softened and hurt so much that he had to hold on to the wall when going up and down stairs.

The cartilage in the joints is actually like the rubber gasket in the faucet. It is used to buffer the pressure when walking, running and jumping. When it is worn thin, it will cause "leakage" pain, and if it is worn away, it will never grow back. In severe cases, artificial joints will have to be replaced. Speaking of which, we have to mention the most commonly asked question about knee pads. Doctors from different departments do have different recommendations: Most Western orthopedics departments recommend wearing knee pads only during the acute injury period, or when doing heavy weight-bearing exercises such as squats and mountain climbing. If you wear them all the time for daily walking, it will make the muscles around the knee joint become "lazy", and the support will be reduced in the long run, which will make you more susceptible to injury. ； However, many doctors in the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Traditional Chinese Medicine will suggest that people who have occasional knee soreness or always feel cold knees in autumn and winter can wear thin warm kneepads, either to bear weight or to block the wind to prevent local blood circulation from being too poor and causing pain. Both opinions are actually correct, but they are suitable for different groups of people.

There is another topic that everyone has been arguing about for a long time: is arthritis caused by freezing? In fact, the cold itself will not directly cause you to get arthritis, but if you already have cartilage wear and tear, or you have been injured in the joints before, the local blood vessels will shrink when you are cold, and metabolic waste cannot be discharged, and the pain will be amplified. Girls who wear exposed ankles and knees in winter may not necessarily get arthritis, but if your joints feel sore and stiff every time you freeze, then don't bear it hard. Wearing knee pads will not affect your appearance.

As for the question that many people ask about whether to supplement ammonia sugar, don’t blindly follow the trend and buy imported ones. If you are over 35 years old, often climb stairs, or have exercise habits, and your physical examination has reported joint degeneration, then following the doctor's advice can indeed help lubricate the joints. ； But if you are only in your twenties and don’t do much exercise except walking a few steps to and from get off work, eating will be of no use and may actually increase the burden on your gastrointestinal tract. Last time a young man came for a review and said that he heard an anchor say that ammonia sugar can "repair joints" and he took it every day. As a result, his arthritis was not cured and he developed a gastric ulcer first, which he really couldn't do.

Let me tell you a few little details that no one has specifically told you: When riding a shared bicycle, don’t adjust the seat too low. It’s best if your legs are almost straight when you pedal to the lowest point. Otherwise, your knees will bend at a sharp angle every time you pedal, which will cause them to be worn very hard.； Don't cross your legs when you sit for a long time. Wait for 10 minutes and feel the outside of your knees. Are they tight? Over time, the patella joint becomes distorted due to stress, and pain will occur sooner or later. ； For every 1 kilo more weight, your knees have to carry an additional 3 kilos of weight when walking, and even 6 more kilos when running and jumping. Don’t think that being fat just doesn’t look good. Your knees really can’t bear it first.

Don’t listen to people who say “if it’s not good for your knees, just don’t move at all.” The weaker the muscles, the more unstable the joints will be. Walking slowly, swimming, and squatting against the wall are all good exercises, as long as you don’t force yourself to exercise through pain. If you have been feeling pain in your knees when you squat down in the past two months, or your joints are so stiff in the morning that you have to rub them for three to five minutes before you can move, don’t put on a plaster and just carry it. Go to an orthopedic department and take a plain X-ray to see if you apply some medicine and do some rehabilitation early on. If you delay it to the point of having surgery, you will suffer a lot.