Knee protection, have you finished it?

The most important thing to protect your knees is “prevention”.
The problem that knee injuries caused by damage of cartilage, meniscus and others are more serious since these tissues are not easy to regenerate and grow fast like the muscles. Eating a lot of Glucosamine (salt, not calcium) can be beneficial to grow cartilage, but at a very limited effect. These tissues can be considered to be non-renewable in a few years or even longer. Some targeted muscle training is indeed helpful, but the effect is only “help”, even trained correctly the results are far from to “prevent.” In fact, people who like to have a big backpack for self-torturing can easily break their well-maintained capacity of the knee in a few days and have knee problems in following years.
The proper tips for wearing sports knee braces
In order to protect the knees from harm, a variety of knee braces are on the market with the most two types commonly seen: ordinary type in straight barrel shape and professional type with strengthened protective strips on both sides. General movement does not require knee braces. Wearing ordinary knee braces can help to keep warm, while pose oppression to patella at the same time, and reduce the exercise effect. If climbing, you need intermittent use, do not apply it the whole time. Put on the brace in case of knee discomfort and take it off while in good condition, otherwise it will affect the normal muscle training. It is not advisable to choose the strengthened type due to its double edges, the more protective and supportive it is, the bigger effect it will be on the exercise. It will slow down the muscle training effect in a long wearing. Professional knee brace is generally used by people who have been injured. Due to the weakness of knee parts, they need strengthened strips to support.
Teenagers do warm up exercise before the campaign
One of the important reasons for adolescent knee injuries occurred in the movement is to ignore the warm-up before exercise. Experts pointed out that knee joints need protection from both muscles and ligaments while in movement. If the warm-up is not enough or full, the muscle protection response will delay and easily lead to joint ligaments, meniscus and cartilage damage. Another common reason is that overloaded knee parts take strenuous exercise thus resulting in knee injury. Therefore, young people should do sports based on their ability without ignoring protecting the knee joints at the same time.
Middle-aged avoid high-intensity exercise
The middle-aged generally are busy and stressful in daily life, easily in sub-health state. It is particularly important to take the time to carry out physical exercise to maintain good health. Experts suggest that for the majority of car travel, sedentary and less moving middle-aged, doing sports should be gradual, try to avoid the state from the sedentary suddenly into the high-intensity exercise. Therefore, in order to protect the knee, the excercise should begin with never sweat or micro-sweating small-load movement, and gradually increase the amount to achieve the effect of physical fitness.
Elderly climb less
Many elderly people think that climbing stairs or mountains is a healthy and economical exercise, but this approach is not conducive to the protection of the knee.
Experts point out that the knee load is basically weight-bearing in going up the mountain, while down force adds to the knee part in going downhill in addition to their own weight, which may increase the risk of knee injury. Therefore, the elderly are suggested to take non-knee-damage exercise, such as swimming, cycling, walking and so on. In exercise, the knee brace can be equipped for preventing knee injury for one hand due to improper force, and keep warm on the other hand.
Do not do rotary knee movement
Experts advise one commonly applied warm-up exercise is to turn left and right in circles with hands on laps. There is no problem for people who do not have a knee injury. However, such action may further damage the knee part, more severely will bring meniscus tear and compression for knee injury, especially meniscus injury and osteoarthritis patients. It needs surgical treatment.
For patients with knee injury, the ideal warm-up activities are as follows: keep the position, such as sitting up, with the knee flexion, no weight-bearing. And then rotate the knees left and right, largely reducting the knee pressure and surface friction between two joints, thus conducive to protecting the injured articular cartilage and meniscus.
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