reporter Hu Lin
the old man jump square dance is to be able to stop . Information picture 68 year old mother over dancing injured
Durbin, a doctor in Department of orthopedics, Jiangsu Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, said that one of his outpatients should look at about 40 patients. The age is basically over 60 years old. Among them, more than half of the patients with knee and bone joints are treated, and 20% of the patients even need to be treated by surgery. Treatment. One of the patients, Aunt Wang, was due to jumping the square dance, resulting in injury to the knee joint.
Wang's home in the big factory, 68 years old this year, usually love jumping square dance, every night to eat dinner on time to dance, has been persisted for six or seven years, one jump is more than one hour. In the previous period, she felt the pain and swelling of the leg, especially when she climbed the stairs, which was diagnosed as osteoarthritis, and the most direct cause was a daily high square dance. "Some square dance squatting movements will be more, for the elderly, it is very harmful to the knee. Excessive jumping square dance mainly causes osteoarthritis and synovitis of the knee. The symptoms are pain and swelling in the joints, especially when you move and climb stairs.
hitting Taijiquan can also hurt the knee joint
Durbin said, in addition to the square dance, there are also some usual old people's favorite sports way of attention, such as playing Taijiquan, the cloud in Taijiquan can also hurt the knee joint; for the heavier old people, climbing stairs or climbing mountains, The damage of the knee joint is 4-6 times more than that of normal walking, and the damage to the knee joint is greater than that of the knee when climbing the mountain. Therefore, to reduce this kind of movement, it is best to wear the kneecap during the exercise, and some old people like to wipe the ground on their knees in the home cleaning, the weight of the body is all on the knees, and the knees will damage the knees. .
"according to our incomplete statistics, 50% of the people over 50 years of age are suffering from osteoarthritis, 60% over 60 years of age, and 75% over 70 years of age. Osteoarthritis is the most common type of Department of orthopedics disease in the elderly population. Therefore, it is recommended that care should be taken after 40 years of age. " Durbin said that if the elderly need to exercise, they should choose to swim, take a walk or ride a bike. If you take a long walk, you have to wear the knee and you should be able to straighten the legs.
Durbin also warned that early detection of pain in the knee joint can change the way of exercise, or do physical therapy; it is more serious to have surgical treatment. "For example, some people walk in the eight words, easy to make more pressure accumulate in the outside of the foot, increase the pressure of the joint, a long time will form the O - shaped leg, but the outside eight words walk, long and long knees will move, the legs form X - shaped legs, these people should be corrected when young."