In recent years, reigns a cult of fitness: exercise engaged in everything from small to large. Fitness heals, strengthens muscles, improves body shape and mood, but at the same time during the exercise you can learn about your body a lot. For example, if squat knees crunch - it is a sign that you need to give serious attention to their health.

From health to disease

Stifle human "work" every day, and almost constantly. Walking and any change in the position of the body require that the involvement of these joints. What to say about sports exercises in which the load increases significantly.

While the knees are healthy, no motion is straightforward. However, with age the knee joint may vary. The reasons are many. These include, for example, obesity: every extra kilogram increases the load on the joints. Very often suffer knees from injury, not only sports, but also the household: a bad fall can result in a sprain or tear of the meniscus. Infectious diseases and endocrine also play a role. Impact and bad habits Bad habits - second nature? . Finally, with the age of almost all disturbed nutrition of cartilage tissue, which also have a negative impact on the joints. However, the diagnosis of "osteoarthritis" can be delivered and young.

Symptoms

Knee problems start slowly and gradually. First, there is a crunch in joints when walking or exertion. Then there is stiff knee after sleep Dreams: how to understand our dreams   or prolonged immobility. Knees like refusing to function, and it takes a while to keep your feet again became free to flex.

Pathological changes are progressing in the knee joints. Over time, the knee joints begin to react to changes in the weather. Knees "whine" to the cold or rain, but dry and hot weather do not bother. There may be pain at night. The skin in the kneecaps sometimes reddens and swells, becomes painful.

As the changes in the joints defeat the disease becomes more difficult. The fourth degree of pathological changes characterized by deformation of the joint: start treatment in this situation, it is too late. Therefore, doctors strongly recommend to pay attention to the very first symptoms of changes in the joints, which is a crunch in her lap under load. Perhaps, in addition to the advice of the doctor and will need some tests.

Cracking in the knees: what to do?

It is important to consider that no tablets and ointments can improve food joints. Doctors prescribe necessarily comprehensive treatment, which may include taking certain medications, hondoprotektorov, moderate exercise and physical therapy. In some cases, the absence of contraindications can be recommended course of electrophoresis. In advanced cases, prescribe anti-inflammatory and pain medications.

Self-treatment is not recommended if you consult a doctor immediately is not possible, it is necessary to protect the joints. This does not mean that we should spend days lying motionless, cradling joints crunched - fixed only exacerbate the problem. On the other hand, it shows the exercises, but the exercise must be gentle, such as "scissors" or "bicycle".

Desirable quiet walk in comfortable shoes. But from the power load on the knees should be abandoned. If you crunch your knees, running, jumping, volleyball or basketball are shown only after consulting your doctor. The same can be said about exercises for weight loss: before going to the fitness club should consult a doctor.

From extra kilos will have to get rid of, to reduce the load on the joints. And increase the load in the gym for this can not be, should start with diet. Meals should be healthy and nutritious but calorie diet reduced by limiting animal fats and simple carbohydrates. It is also advisable to eat less salt. But vitamin-mineral complexes will only benefit. It is necessary to clean drinking water - at least two liters per day.

Should choose comfortable shoes. From high heels must be abandoned, at least temporarily. In addition, we should not lift weights in order to avoid injuries of cartilage.

Do not panic

If you crunch your knees when squatting - is a signal that you need to take care of your health. But this is not the verdict: often you can deal with the problem, only slightly changing lifestyle

• It is necessary to move more, preferring exercises that do not injure the knee joint;
• Sometimes the cause of the crunch can be trivial vitamin deficiencies. Balanced diet and multivitamin to help cope with the problem;
• It should drink more water and refuse from excessive salt intake. This will help get rid of the swelling and reduce the stress on the joints;
• To improve the blood circulation in the area of ​​the knee should avoid tight clothing and uncomfortable shoes;
• Enough effective ointments and compresses based on snake or bee venom. Traditional medicine also recommends that treatment with leeches;
• From home remedies good for the knees dairy applications from wheat bran with warm milk. The mixture is applied to the knees and covered film. Half an hour later washed off with warm water compress, knees lubricated cream.

Prevention

Knees can crunch not only because of the sedentary lifestyle, but, on the contrary, because of the injuries sustained as a result of exercise. In most cases, these injuries occur in those who are doing the exercises properly, or has not sufficiently trained muscles.

The desire to lose weight quickly in the fitness room and to get strong muscles is natural, but the burden should be increased gradually. In addition, it is important to do the exercises in accordance with the recommendations of the coach.

Maria Bykov

Don - a drug for the treatment of joints. It restores the cartilage of the joints, a normal amount of synovial fluid, relieves pain in joints Joint pain - how to understand what is going on? . It is used mainly in degenerative disorders of the joints, such as osteoarthritis.

What kind of preparation do and how it works

Dona active substance is glucosamine, which is normally a part of the articular cartilage. It glucosamine enable all the required properties of the cartilage, since cartilage cells (chondrocytes), use it as a starting material for the preparation of other biologically active substances, whose presence depends on the firmness and strength of the cartilage. Glucosamine also promotes an increase in synovial fluid, suspend the development of degenerative processes in the joints, restores their function, relieves pain.

Don produced the Italian pharmaceutical company Rottafarm powders for oral administration in vials with a solution for intramuscular injection. Other pharmaceutical companies drugs with the main active ingredient glucosamine sold under the name: D-Glucosamine, aminoartrin, glucosamine, stopartroz, farmaskin THC elbona, yunium and others.

Which treats diseases of the joints do

Degenerative-dystrophic diseases of the joints are the result of metabolic disorders in the tissues of the joints. Develop these diseases tend to be people after forty years due to a mismatch between the physical stress on the joints and their ability to resist these stresses. Gradually cells in joint cartilage, which acts as a shock absorber begins metabolic disorders that lead to necrosis of these cells and the destruction of cartilage. After the destruction of the cartilage begins to break down bone tissue that responds to exercise sprawl. It reduces the amount of synovial fluid, which was lubricated joints, connective tissue grows. This condition is called primary osteoarthritis and cause pain, dysfunction of joints and reduced quality of life.

Any and secondary osteoarthritis, which develops at a young age and after injury, inflammation in the joint, and so forth. Osteoarthritis is very slow and never leads to serious malfunctions of the joints (except for osteoarthritis of the hip joint, due to the peculiarities of the structure of this joint osteoarthritis quickly leads to a significant disruption of its function).

For the treatment of osteoarthritis appoint agents, improves blood circulation, pain medications, physical therapy procedures.

Used Don as osteochondrosis (similar changes in the spine), chondromalacia patella Chondromalacia patella - pay attention to the pain   (softening of the patella cartilage, etc. developing permanent injuries in this area), after injuries and operations on the joints, as well as a part of complex treatment of patients with inflammatory and autoimmune (allergic to its own tissue) diseases of the joints.

To prevent the development of degenerative processes don prescribed at high physical activity (such as athletes), people after forty years.

Side effects and contraindications

Don is generally well tolerated, but possible side effects: mild gastrointestinal disturbances in the form of discomfort and pain in the upper abdomen, nausea, bloating, constipation or diarrhea. Sometimes they develop an allergic reaction, usually not heavy.

In intramuscular contained in a solution of lidocaine Dona sometimes cause headaches, dizziness, visual disturbances, fatigue, cardiac abnormalities.

Admission dons inside is contraindicated in phenylketonuria (severe hereditary metabolic disorders, as Dona powder as an auxiliary substance contains aspartame - a substance that is contraindicated with phenylketonuria).

The solution for intramuscular injection, which includes lidocaine should not be administered to children under twelve years of age, patients with severe heart block, congestive heart failure, as well as if in the past the patient had seizures.

Don - a medication that helps in many diseases of the joints and spine.

Galina Romanenko