If you want to feel less discomfort, take less medications, improve your flexibility, get stronger, and avoid joint replacement
surgery in the future, then you’re going to have to get moving, says Justus J. Fiechtner, MD, MPH, head of rheumatology at Michigan State University.

An excellent method to begin moving is stretching, which is not something only professional athletes need to do prior to a competition. Fact is that carrying out simple stretches two or three times a week can considerably help anyone boost flexibility, improve balance, and ease the pain brought on by arthritis.

” Many individuals feel that arthritis discomfort is something they have to tolerate. This is not real,” specifies Jeff Cleveland, president of Clear Choice Health Care in Melbourne FL.

Currently, there are over 70 million individuals who struggle with some type of arthritis according to Erin Rohan O’Driscoll, Registered Nurse, MA, the author of Exercises for Arthritis. She reports that the warning signs of arthritis are steady or intermittent joint discomfort, tightness in a joint after rising or after extended sitting, swelling or tenderness in one or more joints, and a crunching feeling or the sound of bone rubbing on bone.

Rohan O’Driscoll asserts that the right kinds of workout can lower the debilitating impacts of arthritis.

Some studies show that workout can minimize arthritis discomfort. Tufts University completed a strength-training program with moderate to serious knee osteoarthritis. This sixteen- week program showed that strength training decreased pain by a whopping 43% and similar impacts of this training have been seen in clients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Jeff Cleveland believes in the Tufts University program and additional states that, “If you experience arthritis, you might wish to try stretching, strength training, and aerobic conditioning,” he states.

Extending works to fight the stiffness and loss of movement in the joint. “People with hurting joints will stagnate those locations. If you do not move it, you’ll lose motion and this will make any form of workout unbearable,” states Cleveland.

Before a person with arthritis can easily do some form of aerobic exercise, they should get their muscles strong and develop the variety of movement in their joints according to Dr. William J. Arnold, rheumatologist and director of the Complementary Medicine Program at the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute in Des Plaines.

Dr. Arnold further asserts that individuals with arthritis don’t exercise to get in shape; they get in shape to workout. Dr. Arnold believes in strengthening the muscles around the joint to ultimately reduce the pain.

Cleveland alerts, “You don’t want to feel discomfort with any workout due to the fact that there’s no gain with discomfort.”

Experts state to begin gradually and gently and recommend patients with thought arthritis talk with a doctor about starting a program with a physical therapist.

Cleveland states a doctor can provide diagnosis, discomfort medications and details about keeping arthritis from worsening. Physical therapy is also a great concept.

Many doctors also include a recommendation to a physical therapist for arthritis assistance. Cleveland states, “We wish to keep individuals with arthritis moving in the right direction.”

Jeff Cleveland is President of Clear Choice Health Care in Melbourne FL.