3 Easy Exercises To Do At Home For Knee Arthritis

It is true that exercise and arthritis can’t go hand-in-hand because recommending rigorous workout sessions to someone who has stiff and aching joints seem to be a piece of unjustified advice. But very few know that there are quite a lot of extremely easy and gentle exercises which can actually lessen joint pain. Let us find out such 3 low-impact knee workouts that will certainly minimize the joint stress.

#1 Leg Raise – This is as simple as just lying on the floor on your back. Yes, you read it right! Simply lie flat with your arms resting on your both sides on the floor and with your toes pointing up. Take a deep breath and then raise one of your legs at a height of six or seven inches. Hold it there for 5 seconds, count from 1 to 5 and then lower your leg to the resting position leisurely. Do the same thing with the other leg. Repeat this whole process four times and help your quadriceps to strengthen.

#2 Hamstring Stretch - Simply lie down either on the floor or on the bed on your back and keep your both the legs bent with knees facing upward. Lift one of our legs slowly by keeping the knee still bent and try bringing it back close to the chest. Help yourself by supporting your thighs by holding it with your hands. After you had set yourself firm in that position, it’s time to stretch your straight leg upwards till you feel that stretch properly.  After holding in there for at least 30 seconds come back to the resting position by bending your knees slowly. This exercise is said to be good for the hamstring muscles that connect the thighs to the knees.

#3 Half- Squat- This one is good for muscle intensification and the technique to do this is also very simple and not tiresome. Just stand with your feet quite spaced out from each other and keep your arms straight at the front. Keeping yourself affixed in that position try bending your knees with your chest lifted and back straight. This half-sitting position is a very easy-to-do exercise and without leaning forward you need to hold onto that position for minimum 5 seconds. If you do not feel any kind of pain while doing it then it’s a good sign and you can perform this practice with 10 repetitions without any worry.

So, these 3 exercises are undoubtedly good for the improvement of joint health of arthritis patients but there are many for whom slightly bending the knees seem to be an impossible action. The intensity of pain, stiffness, and sufferance are much more in their cases. So, the best advice for them is to try out some low-impact exercises like jogging with a slower pace by wearing sturdy shoes or walking in a water pool in its shallow end. As per health experts, this kind of exercises is good for enhancing the flexibility of the knees and strength of the muscles. So, the best tip here, in the end, would be keep exercising regularly to soothe or pacify your joint ache.

Neal David is a health expert at Healthy Joints System who takes a keen interest in the bone and joint health. He also suggests the Arthritis patients to try the all-new triple formula Glucosamine Chondroitin MSM supplement, that has all the nutrients of all the three essential vitamins Glucosamine, Chondroitin and Methylsulfonylmethane. 

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