[How to protect knees for middle-aged and elderly people]How to protect knees for middle-aged and elderly people? Both strenuous exercise and lack of exercise can easily cause knee injuries. Experts point out that people of different ages have different knee braces, and improper use will damage the knee joint.
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Middle-aged and elderly people How to protect the knees
1. Middle-aged people need to avoid high-intensity exercise
Middle-aged people are usually busy with work, stressful, and prone to sub-health conditions, so they take time out It is especially important to do physical exercise to maintain good health. For most middle-aged people who travel by car, sedentary and less active, exercise should be done gradually, and try to avoid suddenly entering high-intensity exercise from a state of inactivity for many years. Therefore, in order to protect the knee joint, middle-aged people should pay attention to starting from low-load exercise without sweating or slightly sweating, and gradually increase the amount of exercise to achieve the effect of strengthening the body. Wearing knee pads during exercise can effectively avoid knee injuries.
2. Elderly people should not climb mountains and stairs.
Many elderly people think that climbing stairs and mountains is a way to keep fit and save money, but they do not know that this method is not conducive to protection knee joint. When going up the stairs, the weight of the knee joint is basically your own body weight. When going down the stairs, in addition to your own body weight, the knee joint also has to bear the force of the downward thrust, which will increase the damage to the knee joint. Therefore, it is best for the elderly to perform sports that do not damage the knee joint, such as swimming, cycling, and walking. When exercising, it can be equipped with appropriate knee pads, on the one hand, it can prevent the knee from being damaged due to improper force, and on the other hand, it can also play a role in keeping warm.
3. Those with knee injuries should not do rotating knee exercises.
During warm-up activities, put your hands on your knees and turn left and right a few times, which is a common warm-up. one of the ways. For people with no knee damage, doing this exercise is no problem. However, for patients with knee joint injury, especially meniscus injury and osteoarthritis, such an action may further damage the knee joint, and in severe cases, it may cause tearing and compression of the meniscus, requiring surgical treatment.
For patients with knee injuries, the ideal way to warm up is to place the knee in a non-weight-bearing position, such as sitting upright, with the knee flexed and not weight-bearing. At this time, rotate and move the knee joint left and right, the joint pressure is reduced, and the friction between the joint surfaces is also greatly reduced, which is beneficial to protect the injured articular cartilage and meniscus.
Why should middle-aged and elderly people wear knee pads
1. Insulation, the muscles and blood vessels of the knee are relatively small, and it is not easy to generate heat, so middle-aged and elderly people wear knee pads It can have the effect of keeping warm and prevent cold and moisture from attacking the joints and causing diseases such as arthritis.
2. To avoid injury, the knee is an important joint in human movement, especially in the process of exercise, it is particularly prone to collision and abrasion, and the knee pad can play a buffering role, reduce the collision strength of the knee and prevent Skin abrasions.
3. Comfortable. The knees of middle-aged and elderly people degenerate, and the pressure they bear is several times their own body weight. Wearing knee pads can reduce the pressure on the knees.
4. Health care, middle-aged and elderly people wearing knee pads have obvious curative effects on knee rheumatism, arthritis, joint inflexibility, sprain and contusion and other joint diseases, and can play an auxiliary role.
5. Braking, the bones of middle-aged and elderly people are relatively loose and fragile. A little bit of movement or a bit of vigorous exercise may make the original position slip off. Knee pads can keep the thigh and calf in the same position as much as possible. In a straight line, protect the joints, and when the knee is affected, it will not aggravate the disease.
I believe that everyone already knows the role and benefits of wearing knee pads for middle-aged and elderly people. There are many benefits of wearing knee pads for middle-aged and elderly people. Don’t look at the trouble and don’t bring it. You can replace the warm or breathable knee pads according to the weather changes, so that the knees have an extra layer of protection, life is more guaranteed, and life is more comfortable, why not do it?