
Dealing With Knee Pain? These Simple Moves Can Help!
|Why Deal With Knee Pain When You Can Do These
Nobody likes achy joints, especially when they are in the knees.
But the sad reality is the most of us deal with knee pain. This can occur for many reasons including inactivity, carrying too much weight, poor posture, and poor nutrition can all lead to joint pain. Once you have the pain, it can be terribly hard to get around. If left untreated, painful knees can turn into arthritis or lead to knee replacements. So what can one do to heal achy joints and keep our knees healthy? In addition to changing your diet, there are some fairly simple things you can do starting today to reduce knee and joint pain.
The following article describes 3 stretches that can help alleviate achy joints.
See the article below and be sure to pass this along to any of your friends that could use some relief from knee and joint pain.
By ERIN KELLY
One of the best things you can do for knee health is simply maintaining an active lifestyle. “Your joints thrive on movement,” Rippe says. “Always try to remember that some activity is better than no activity.” Rippe recommends low-impact activities, like swimming, brisk walking, or cycling, and considering taking health supplements that provide glucosamine and chondroitin to strengthen and lubricate knees.
Since multiple muscles overlap the knee joint—including your calf, thigh, hamstrings, quadriceps, gastrocnemius, and soleus—and work together to flex, extend, and stabilize the knee, the exact source of pain isn’t always obvious. “This means you want to think about stretching all the tissues around the knees,” says Lauren Williams, a certified personal trainer and head coach at New York City’s athletic-based training studio Tone House.
Here, Williams shares three of the best (and simplest) moves that target all those muscle groups. Try to do these stretches after every workout to keep your knees healthy now and in the future.
See the original article from Greatist here.
Looking for even more exercises to relieve knee and joint pain? Check out this article from PositiveHealthWellness.com