If you are a patient of arthritis then
you should be knowing about what fitness and exercise regime you should observe
and how. Arthritis is a condition where only exercise would give you relief.
Exercise is something gives you a great sleep pattern increases your energy
levels and maintains a healthy heart. It also increases your strength of bones
and muscles and decreases your depressed state of mind. Exercise also is the
best way you could regain your self-confidence.
Healthy
joints need a lot of healthy exercise. Moving the joints everyday helps them to
be fully active. It is important that the muscles that surround the joints give
you good support and that the movement of the joints helps to transport the
waste products and the nutrients to the cartilage and from it. The material
that cushions the bones and protects them is the cartilage and it is important
that you maintain it well.
Arthritis has to be taken care of with the help of
strengthening exercises and this helps to increase the strength of the muscles.
The strong muscles ensure that you can support the joints and would give you
more stable joints. You can move very easily and with little pain. There are
two types of strengthening exercise that you can do – isotonic and isometric.
While isotonic helps to improve the muscle strength, Isometric exercises help
to tighten the muscles. One doesn't have to move the joints for this. These exercises
are very useful when the joint is impaired.
Then
you have endurance exercises which are the basic physical activities that tend
to increase your heart rate. Your heart rate can be computed on the basis of
your physical condition. By raising it the endurance exercises only improve
your fitness. Endurance exercises are normally done three times a week sot that
one can build on the effectiveness. Sometimes patients with arthritis have said
that with the help of endurance exercises they are able to increase the
physical strength, improve the symptoms of arthritis and are able to develop a
better kind of mental attitude.
It is a good idea to discuss the exercise and come to a
conclusion. There are exercises which are out of limits as they cause a lot of
damage and there are exercises which result in totally helping the patient to
recover well. One should know how exactly to deal with the condition.
Arthritis is a condition where fitness and exercise are of prime
concern and it is important to know how to deal with it