Combat Osteoarthritis With Light Exercise

Light exercise like walking can protect you against osteoarthritis of the knee. Researchers have advised people to avoid harmful knee-bending activities like climbing and squatting.

High impact sports like running can aggravate damage to the knee cartilage, especially in overweight people and people with a family history of Osteoarthritis. The study was presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative problem which usually affects joints like the knee. This disease affects about 27 million people around the world above the age of 25.

The researcher identified three levels of activity:

• Sedentary: reading, watching the TV for more than 2 hours at a stretch
• Light exercise: walking, playing darts, playing with the Frisbee for more than 2 hours
• Heavy exercise: running, cycling and exercising at the gym for more than 1 hour

People facing the risk of Osteoarthritis were significantly benefitted by doing light exercise regularly. According to the researchers, light exercise is protective against osteoarthritis. They came to the conclusion after studying the MRI scans of 99 women and 66 men between the age of 45 and 55. Their study found out that women with the risk of osteoarthritis who undertook heavy exercise regularly had significantly more collagen damage than those who undertook only light exercise.

Among people who were not at risk of osteoarthritis showed no significant difference in cartilage degeneration.

Frequent bending of the knee (like climbing more than 10 flights of stairs or kneeling for more than 30 minutes) was associated with more damaged cartilage.

According to the researchers, the easiest way to protect your bones from osteoarthritis is to lose excess weight gradually. Try to avoid exercising aggressively. If by chance you injure any joint, you might be increasing the risk of osteoarthritis. You should also avoid risky moves like knee bending and squatting.

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