Joint Health
Joints pain any one? Consider these strategies to encourage joint health.
- Strength training. Weight-bearing exercise builds strong bone density and protects joints by strengthening the muscles that stabilize them. Combine strength training and low-impact activities such as swimming or water aerobics.
- Stretch. Regular stretching keeps joints, muscles and ligaments limber and strong, while reducing injury risk, lowering stress and encouraging weight loss.
- Slim down. Every pound of your body weight places four pounds of pressure per step on the knees. Losing 10 pounds translates to 48,000 fewer pounds of pressure per mile walked.
- Glucosamine and chondroitin. Though study results are mixed. Some find glucosamine or glocosamine plus chondroitin helpful and they appear to do no harm. To determine if these supplements are helpful for you, try 1,500 miligrams of glucosamine and 100 miligrams chondroitin, twice a day, then evaluate your pain level after 7 days.
September 27 2008 01:01 am | Health