Elderly knee meniscus injury, these kinds of sports should try to avoid

In order to maintain good health, many older people are obsessed with physical exercise, unaware that as age increases, the body's bone loss, itself is prone to all kinds of joint problems, and if then improper movement, it will cause joint damage, accelerate joint degeneration, so that people are prone to osteoarthritis or lead to osteoarthritis aggravation.

So, these sports traps, must pay attention to avoid:

1, climbing mountains, climbing stairs:

This is the most common way of exercise for the elderly, they believe that climbing mountains not only exercise, but also feel the scenery of nature, so that people are happy.

Unbeknownst to them, the knee joints are relatively heavy in the process of climbing mountains or stairs, especially in the process of descending mountains, not only to bear the weight of the body, but also to bear the gravity of the downward stroke.

And, throughout the course of the campaign, the knee joints have shown a certain degree of bending, which directly leads to a sudden increase in the pressure on the femur and patella, easily triggered by knee pain, arthritis, and if there is a knee joint lesion, the two campaigns are undoubtedly the "snow".

2, square dance:

Dancing in order to look good, the joints will bend, easy to cause meniscus damage. So pay attention to dance time is not too long, not more than 1 hour each time, 1 week 1 ~ 2 times on the good, do not jump too intense, rhythm beat too strong dance, wear to dance shoes shoes to thicker, flexible.

3, playing basketball:

There are many male friends of the elderly "do not admit defeat", that he and the young people can fight, and their own special favorite basketball, so every day will be used to play basketball to prove themselves.

However, in terms of the physical condition of the elderly friends, playing basketball will cause serious damage to the knee, because this stage of their own balance and muscle tolerance has decreased, if then these jumping, shooting, running action, a little carelessness may lead to joint damage, or even meniscus injury.

4, lifting heavy objects

Go to the market to buy food, shopping, lifting ten pounds of heavy knee joints have to bear nearly seventy pounds of weight. It is recommended that we use more carts oh.

5, deep squatting exercise

In our deep squatting exercise, the knee joint is bent to a certain degree, long-term repeated so easy to lead to joint cartilage wear and tear, the degree of wear and tear far more than walking.

At the same time, the deep squatting action will make the back side of the knee joint pressure suddenly increased, this situation is easy to hurt the medial meniscus, leading to meniscus damage, tear, the quality of life in the future to have a direct impact.

Last but not least,

For the elderly friends, soothing aerobic exercise should be the first choice, such as walking, swimming, tai chi and so on. But it should also be based on their own physical strength and physical quality to choose, grasp a reasonable exercise time, so as to play a role in protecting the knee joints.