Arthritis Exercise
Arthritis Exercises
Arthritis exercises are important because they help reduce joint pains and stiffness. They also make you feel better, fit and healthier. For you to protect your joints, the muscles surrounding them must be strengthened and the best way to go about this is by exercising. Even just simple motions can help strengthen the joints. You can see a physical therapist who can help come up with an exercise program. The program will involve low impact and flexibility exercises that will help reduce joint pains as well as stiffness.
There are two basic types of exercises. Stretching exercises normally help you to stay flexible. They also prevent stiffness as well as deformities. Strengthening exercises on the other hand usually help to make the muscles, tendons and the ligaments that support the joints stronger. This normally helps to make movements less painful.
If you are a beginner, you should go about these exercises slowly. You should not push yourself too hard because you can aggravate the pain and even lose motivation to go on. When you begin, you should not do more than 5 repetitions for each set of exercise. You should take at least 2 weeks before you increase the repetitions to 10.
You should go about these exercises in an order that minimizes the number of times you have to get up and down. You should also remember to do the same number of exercises for both sides. Before you begin arthritis exercises, it is important that you first talk to your doctor.
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