Knee pain? Just walk it off.
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Walking is OK but you're still putting weight on the joint. Ellipticals and bikes are better, plus resistance training to strengthen the supporting muscles, tendons and ligaments. My left has been bone on bone for years now with no pain. Best not to put your body weight on the joint.
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@mik I want a fresh water swimming pool.
Swim, no pressure on joints, don't take a chlorine bath.
Well, that's one of my materialistic fantasies.
As to gym-- not going to one unless someone were to physically drag me to one and even then I'd escape and make a run for it (no pun intended).
As to exercise machines-- I like this idea. I want to do it. Now however my living room is filled with indoor furniture, patio furniture, 3 coffee tables I need to get rid of, and one bedroom door. I actually slammed it permanently open and unable to open more as well as close. In short, I bent the hinges.
I had to free it and store it in the living room. It's big (tall) and solid (not technically solid wood but made with thick and heavy wood panels).
I don't remember why I lost my temper.
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You might have a salt water pool where you are. They have a lot less chemicals.
Maybe. It wouldn't be a municipal facility but you could be right. I'll check.
I meant to say something about our beaches.
Note: If a Florida vacation is somerhing you want to take or more likely take your family on then listen carefully.
The beaches here had more industrial pollution (development run off, agricultural run off, same as HI) than people wanted to think about way back when, let alone now.
There is red tide occasionally, although nothing like that one year when it made the beaches look like a hellscape.
People should also know the flesh eating bacteria found in ocean water that people might/ should associate with the Tropics is rampant up and down the west coast of Florida.
I don't know when it got this way, but the problem is pretty severe.
Yeah, and sharks.
I don't go to the beach.
Of course I did way back when, but never again.
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I do full squats. The squats relieve the pain in the knee that has had meniscus surgery.
One reason I have a dog is dogs require walking. I also do stretches for that knee. Have a recumbent trike I have not been riding much since starting prednisolone following eye surgery. -
Walking may help - but ONLY if one has the right shoes. One can really cripple one's self in the wrong shoes, especially if putting some distance on the shoes. And not all of us have the same geometry, especially for women.
in the wrong shoes
Trying to find women's shoes that work for me is one of the most frustrating things....
I need a wide toes box, most shoes taper too much.
I need either a good heel rise (but not heels! something like 15mm drop), or else a deep heel cup to accommodate a lift. Most shoes, like walking shoes, running shoes or other exercise shoes, don't have enough heel drop and the heel cup is too narrow. And stack height. I don't need extra cushion underfoot, I don't need a high stack height.
I also need a reasonably stiff sole, not one where you can easily bend the shoe in half.
These shoes do not exist.
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Back to @axtremus 's OP... I have osteoarthritis in both knees. I do (shallow) squats, a whole set of legs exercises lying down, ride the exercise bike almost every day. Take the stairs up every chance I get.
I have the ongoing problem with my foot/heel/achilles, so I can't walk long distances, I can't run or jump. And, like the findings about knee surgery, I suspect that the surgery that's being recommended for me is something to avoid at all costs. (that's a topic for another post)
But all the things I'm doing for my knees really help.
Not moving is the kiss of death.
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My best friend in college said something on this general topic that has stayed with me.
He said-
"Life was not meant for stasis".
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