1. You aren’t moving enough. One of the biggest mistakes we see patients with knee pain make is to begin using their knees less.
Making unhealthy lifestyle choices Smoking, for instance, dehydrates the muscles, cartilage, and other soft-tissues in your knee. Being overweight puts extra stress on your knee, increasing your risk for injury. Not getting enough quality sleep also deprives your knee of the rest it needs to regenerate cells.
Long-term knee pain is often due to arthritis. Arthritis can happen due to age, past trauma or heavy use. Also, it can happen when the knee joint is unstable or carries too much weight. Low-impact exercise and weight loss may help treat painful arthritis of the knee.
The outcome can be discomfort, pain, and a higher propensity for knee injury. In this article, Dr. Marc Jacobchick helps to unpack the #1 mistake that makes bad knees worse – a lack of exercise.
Exercises that you should not do if you have bad knees include leg extensions, squats, lunges, and possibly running.
Urgent care clinics treat medical conditions that would normally be treated by a primary care physician. If you have a minor illness or injury and can’t see a regular doctor, you can seek treatment at urgent care.
Physician-based urgent care centers are owned and operated by a physician or group of physicians and offer ambulatory medical treatment for non-life-threatening conditions on a walk-in basis.
If you're suffering from arthritis or a minor knee injury, you should take care to…
Physician-based urgent care centers are owned and operated by a physician or group of physicians…
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