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knee pains are not related to the knee itself
Pain in the knee joints is called arthritis of the knee joints, arthrosis of the knee joints, gonarthrosis. These diseases often haunt older people.
Medical practice shows that when complaining of knee pain, it is necessary to make a differential diagnosis: are the knees really sore or is it an echo of pain from other parts of the body? And, as a rule, unfortunately, this is confirmed. That is, people often treat their knees for years, make all kinds of lotions, poultices, they pull the inflammatory fluid from the joint bag with syringes, and it forms again. These procedures are actually very detrimental, because they help the joint dry out, the ligaments in the joints become stiff and easily injured by normal movements.
As a rule, directly with a sore knee, a problem only happens in cases where a direct injury has occurred. For example, damage to the meniscus often leads to the development of arthrosis. People begin to spare the leg, the knees stop bending normally, the thigh muscles atrophy, and thereby the joint's nutrition is disrupted.
First, arthritis develops, that is, inflammation of the soft tissues of the joint occurs - these are the ligaments and muscles responsible for the joint. As a result, the next step is arthrosis, in which the articular surface is deformed. Plus knee contractures leading to shortened legs.
Why is this happening - shortening a leg? Yes, because muscles and ligaments due to contracture are no longer able to bend and unbend the knee. People hardly walk, limp, experience a lot of other unpleasant sensations.
A knee can hurt only after a direct injury, for example, there was a break in the ligaments of the athletes, meniscus injury, after improper rehabilitation. If a person is offered the right set of rehabilitation exercises, namely physical exercises that treat any joint, then you can cope with pain in the knee joints. It must be remembered that the joint directly depends on the muscles and ligaments of this joint. When they are turned off from work, they close their leg with a splint, naturally, over time, hypotrophy, muscle contraction occurs. And this, in turn, leads to persistent flexion contracture, which is almost impossible to cure.
Practice shows that 90% of pain in the knees is not associated with the knee itself, but either with the hip joint, the defeat of which causes pain in the back, groin and knee, or with osteochondrosis of the lumbar spine.
It is very important to differentiate lower back pain from hip pain and knee pain. Otherwise, a shift in emphasis may occur: the doctor will treat what the patient complains about. But if the effect is treated, and not the cause, then the disease will never be defeated.
Knee joint exercises
Kneeling (on all fours). Start with 10-30 seconds, gradually increasing the duration of the exercise. Accompany each movement with the sound "HA", exhaling into a sore joint. I always say: "the disease must be exhaled!" About any breaths, breath holding is out of the question. Focus only on exhaling into the painful area. By the way, a person, if he is also hypertonic, when he exhales, his blood pressure decreases. You should feel the heat of exhalation in the joint, the pain "flows".
I understand that immediately, sitting on your knees, you will not be able to fall on your heels. Even at 10-15 degrees, this exercise will be impossible. Place a roller under your knees, sit on it. Have you timed? 5-10 seconds elapsed? Very well! So tomorrow you will submit to 20-30 seconds. So gradually bring this exercise to 3-5 minutes.
Every day after walking on your knees and lowering the pelvis on your heels, make the roller lower and lower. For this purpose, you can fold in half a hard, then a soft pillow. And after 3-4 months there comes a blessed day when you can fall on your heels without acute pain.
What happened? And here is what. You removed the functional contracture of the quadriceps muscle of the anterior thigh, that is, you were able to stretch the muscles to normal. As we have already found out, usually a diseased knee joint is accompanied by shortening, contracture of this muscle. Sinking down on the heels, we just stretch the muscles, and the pain is not the problem of the knee itself. Bones do not hurt, they do not have pain receptors. Therefore, it is not necessary to treat the knee. It is necessary to treat the muscles above and below the knee.
The third stretching exercise is performed while sitting. You can get rid of knee pain by stretching the muscles of the back surface of the leg. Through pain in the gastrocnemius muscle and under the knee, we pull the thumb of the foot towards ourselves with our fingers. It involves the muscles and ligaments under the knee.
So, in the first two exercises we stretch the muscles above the knee, in the third - under the knee. Thus, as it were, we remove compression, squeezing the articular surfaces of the knee and restore its nutrition and movement.
If you have mastered these three exercises, proceed to ground gymnastics. This time it is squats: legs are widely spaced, hands are holding on to a motionless support, let's say for a door handle or a stick. Squat with a straight back, bending your knees by more than 90. Bring these squats to 100 per day. But less than 20 at a time does not make sense. In the future, perform this exercise up to 100 per day. But less than 20 times in one approach, I repeat, it makes no sense. In the future, this exercise will succeed without support.
After doing the squats, you must stretch the front of the thigh. This exercise is performed lying on your stomach, bending your knees, try to touch the heels of your buttocks.
Then, from a sitting position on your knees, try to sit your hands in front of you (lower your pelvis) between your heels as you exhale.
Complete the procedure with a contrast shower. Never warm the joint, do not succumb to the entreaties of doctors and do not pump fluid out of the joint.
Take care of the knee joints like the apple of an eye, for it is a supercomputer of the leg. He can restore himself. Surprisingly, it is a fact: 95% of knee pain can be treated without any medication, without any surgery.
The main thing is patience and regular exercise. An operation on the knee joint with arthritis will never restore his health, but will lead to an endoprosthesis, and even with the availability of material means, “pleasure” is expensive.
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