Experts advise: suitable for mountaineering four patients with chronic diseases

Posted by Jp Wang
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Oct 10, 2011
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A man climbing out of town, is very beneficial to physical and mental thing. But it needs to be reminded that mountaineering is good, not suitable for everyone, especially for those suffering from some chronic diseases, it is not appropriate.
Hypertensive patients, especially elderly hypertension. Large fluctuations in blood pressure, especially systolic blood pressure changes affect the vulnerable position, the incidence of orthostatic hypotension is higher, heart, brain, kidney and other organs, there are different degrees of aging and hardening of the arteries, or combined with other chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, gout, prone to cerebral hemorrhage, heart failure, myocardial infarction complications. Some patients on weekdays often dizziness, vertigo, lightheadedness, walking hair floating, even not suitable for climbing the
Diabetic patients, especially patients with the disease have been enough. Peripheral vascular disease in diabetic patients mainly in lower extremity vascular disease, vessel wall plaque, the blood vessels narrow, blocked. History in patients over 10 years will have this change. Obvious symptoms may start, but gradually lower limb skin will feel itchy, cold extremities, skin color darker, pigmented spots appeared, under the extremities tingling or burning, numbness, sensation, progressive muscle atrophy, and finally toe gangrene, necrosis. Climbing increased lower limb blood circulation disorders, there will be intermittent claudication, or even pathological fracture.

  Gout patients, especially patients with gouty arthritis. Gout is due to purine metabolism, uric acid formation in the body increase, reducing the formation of a high renal excretion of uric acid, urate crystal deposition in joints, tendons and kidneys, causing tissue damage. Climbing may induce the onset of acute arthritis.

  Patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, especially knee joint disease or those who have bone spurs. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory, systemic autoimmune disease, prominent lesions in the joints, there are persistent and progressive synovitis, severe cartilage destruction and bone erosion, joint deformity. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease of articular cartilage and bone proliferation, manifested as chronic joint pain, stiffness deformity and dysfunction. 90% of women over the age of 65 and 80% of men suffering from the disease. In the mountains process, due to constant friction joints, will aggravate the pain; down the mountain, about three times the weight of the pressure of pressure in the lower extremities, joint disease can not bear.
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