The reason why the meniscus is so valuable is that it is difficult to heal after it is damaged, and many patients are faced with surgical treatments, but whether it is a total meniscectomy or a partial resection of the meniscus, the degeneration of the knee cartilage will cause joint inflammation, which will have an impact on the patient's life. Therefore, it is important to prevent meniscus injuries. These may damage the meniscus of the movement or behavior to pay attention to:
1
Square dance
Many middle-aged and elderly people love square dance, but pay attention to the dancing process of joint bending to the meniscus to bring the risk of injury. Dancing time should not be too long, time control in less than 1 hour, to avoid too intense action, if the venue is a hard ground such as cement, more to wear shoes with thicker soles, flexible shoes.
2
Shuttlecock
Shuttlecock is a leg on the ground, the other leg keeps moving, the body drives the knee joint to rotate, it is easy to damage. If you are old and have joint problems, you should be more careful and try to play less. Kick the shuttlecock should be appropriate, do your best, if you can kick both legs in turn, avoid overuse of one side of the knee.
3
Lifting heavy objects
Holding a 1-pound hand, the meniscus has to bear the weight of 7 pounds. Especially the elderly, when you go to the market to buy food, shopping malls, try not to buy too much at a time, if there is a cart or pulling the car is better.
4
Up and down the stairs, climbing mountains
Knee joints as long as they can withstand 0.5-1 times the force of the body weight, you can complete our normal walking and standing, squatting. In mountain climbing, walking stairs and other actions that require the body to rise or fall, the joint cartilage to withstand the force may reach 3-5 times the body weight. Such a strong pressure load is likely to cause damage to the joint cartilage.
5
Crossing the legs
Crossing the legs on the meniscus of the abrasive force, extrusion pressure, many times more than the natural sagging, but also affect the blood supply, accelerate the degeneration of tissue. If you really like to stilt legs, also pay attention to change the action, in time to the knee joint back to blood.
In addition to exercise or movement, bacteria, fungi or viruses can cause inflammation when they invade the body, degrading the joint fluid and damaging the cartilage. Bacterial inflammation, such as that caused by Staphylococcus aureus, is not only destructive, but also resistant, and can cause a lot of damage to cartilage in a matter of weeks.