Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. In this article, I'll teach you how to ruin your knees.
Osteoarthritis is a popular joint disorder and the main cause of leg problems.
If you want to get osteoarthritis, then you have to fulfill some conditions.
Age
Live to be 50 and your risk of osteoarthritis increases dramatically. If you don't want to wait long, then there is a chance that by the age of 25 you have a 14% chance of having at least one joint pain. After 65 years, every third person can boast of osteoarthritis.
It's actually not entirely clear exactly how age is related to joints. It is suspected that the matter may be in the loss of muscle mass, impaired proprioception (this is a sense of the position of the body in space). Joints may become looser. That is why they do not work properly and break. In older people, bones are usually fragile, and ligaments and tendons lose elasticity.
Floor
It's easier for women. Osteoarthritis is more common and more severe. And here, too, it is not always easy to explain.
Genetics
Approximately 30% of the risk of developing osteoarthritis is associated with heredity. The hip joints and hands are more dependent on genes.
It's not just one gene that is to blame. Genes involved in vitamin D and collagen development and similar things are involved.
Trauma
This is the most interesting thing. If you want to get osteoarthritis of the knee joint, then tear the ligament or meniscus in it. This is almost always a verdict on the joint. It won't start right away. After 10 - 15 years, the knee will hurt, and then he is already tryndets.
Crooked bones
None of us are perfect. We are not made by stamping. Bones grow, bend, swell, deform, suddenly stop growing, or grow spines. All these inconsistencies in the joints lead to their destruction.
Here, personally, my shoulder crunches. I didn't have an injury there, it's just that the process of the scapula does not fit well with the humerus. This feature helps me to destroy the joint.
Yesterday we just discussed crooked legs and how it destroys bones. You can read the link below.
Lifestyle
If your joints don't start to hurt, then you can eat off your belly. Then the process will go faster. The knees are especially affected by the belly. About a quarter of all cases of osteoarthritis of the knee joints could be prevented simply by abstaining from binge eating.
Many people say the opposite is true. That their knees ached first, so they stopped running and only then got fat. This case was even specially checked. They just did an MRI of the joints for people with belly sizes of different sizes. It turned out that no - first, people eat off their belly, and only then the joints begin to collapse. There are no excuses.
Although, of course, obesity is difficult there. Excess weight turns the joints, but they are also destroyed by various inflammatory substances that the adipose tissue secretes. These wonderful biologically active substances literally eat away at bones, cartilage and joint shells. So much for your belly.
Belly and knees
If the body mass index is more than 30, then osteoarthritis in the knee joints is about 7 times more common. Moreover, weight loss in such people reduces joint pain better than pills.
Belly and hip joints
Everything is more complicated here. An explicit connection was not found. The risk is higher, but it's not as easy as with the knees.
Puziko and fingers on hands
It's weird, isn't it? What's the connection? People rarely lean their weight on their fingers. Here again, hormones intervene, provoking inflammation. They even eat away at the joints we don't walk on. Small and tender joints in the hands also suffer from this.
Work
Horses die from work. If you want to get knee problems, pick something off the floor every day at work, crawl on all fours on the sidewalk tiles, shake the whole body at once with jackhammers and tractors, or simply do the same repetitive motion over and over for 8 hours contract. Even I managed to injure my knee at work by constantly rearranging the water bottles.
If nothing works
If you have tried to kill your knees all your life, but nothing worked, then you still have a chance to go limp. You don't need to do anything for this. Literally. Don't do anything with your muscles. Find a job where you have to sit all day and don't go to the gym. Don't dig in the garden or walk your dogs.
Scientists say that it is difficult and very difficult to prove, but someone managed to make so-so osteoarthritis of the knee joints. That is, a certain number of people hardly strain their thigh muscles and therefore their knees gradually begin to crumble.
Smoking
This also does not help everyone. Many people say it's nonsense, but you can try. If you have smoked, then quit. This slightly increases the risk of developing osteoarthritis.
Football
If nothing works out at all, then try playing football regularly. Even long-distance running doesn't destroy knees the way football does. True, it can take years. So start early.
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How to protect your leg joints
Tricks for leg joints
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