Arthrosis - Complex Of Physiotherapy Exercises And Gymnastics For Arthrosis. Shiatsu Method

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The complex of physiotherapy exercises and gymnastics for arthrosis

The complex of physiotherapy exercises for arthrosis is the so-called Shiatsu method. This method will renew your tissues and consolidate success, it will eliminate autoinjury. Let's see what causes arthrosis. First of all, the organism itself is to blame for this. The tissues of the body sooner or later wear out by themselves and lose their elasticity, very little time passes - and your joints are injured by themselves. And now you are steadily getting worse.

It is believed that arthrosis is not treated - at least by conservative methods, that is, without surgical intervention. But this is not so: for the treatment of arthrosis, it is necessary to engage in recreational physical education. It all depends on what type of exercise a person chooses, and what sensations he experiences after the exercises done. If from exercise the pain in the joints increases, swellings appear, then such exercises cannot be done, since such physical education can harm even more!

Why Shiatsu and physical education can help with arthrosis?

You probably know such a theory (unfortunately, I do not remember who put forward it). It consists in the fact that the body sooner or later adapts to everything, whether it be weather conditions or diseases. We can observe this adaptation in a fast form on physical exertion: today you lift 5 kilograms, and in a month - already all 15. The essence of arthrosis lies in the fact that your sick body adapts to itself. That is, you simply begin to hurt even more. But if you start in some way to engage, giving stress to the joints, then in theory it will be possible to make sure that the process of tissue wear or their adaptability to themselves goes back. This is done with the help of certain physical activities.

A lot of people said: if you do physical exercises correctly, slowly, working out each one, then very little time will pass - and you will feel that it becomes easier for you. Exercise itself is a powerful weapon, and if done incorrectly, it can be harmful to you. So: if you are practicing and, on the contrary, you feel pain and it only gets worse, it means that you either picked up the exercises wrong, or just hurry up, doing them, in general, you are doing something wrong.

There are several principles that you should be guided by when choosing a treatment with the Shiatsu method, and indeed all physical activity:

1. general physiological stress on the joints;
2. joint movement without certain stresses;
3. joint course with tension;
4. the total stroke of the joint you want to restore;
5. your inner state.

All exercises should be done with the calculation of the load on the joints, you should not lose sight of the loads that your joint will have to do throughout the day. Exercise can be done with or without stress, some people think that exercising without stress is a waste of time, and that if you now properly load the joint, it will be easier later. This is fundamentally the wrong line of thought! Exercise without load has a very good effect on the joints even with attacks of severe pain, if you do exercise without load for a long time, the pain subsides (although not everyone has enough patience, since sometimes you need to do exercises for more than an hour in a row without increasing the pace).

Physical activity should be controlled in a certain way. So, if you feel better, then you should gradually increase the load, and if, on the contrary, you feel worse and the pain suddenly began, then you should reduce the load until it stops hurting.

How joints should move. In total, there can be two types of joint movement, we talked about them above.

1. movement of the unloaded joint. For example, you are sitting on a chair or hanging on a horizontal bar and, without touching the ground or the floor, you begin to make movements, unbending and bending your leg;
2. movement of the loaded joint. Everything is much simpler here: it happens at the moment when you are just going somewhere. Your legs can support the weight of your own body.

You might think that moving the joint without stress can do nothing good at all. But you are very much mistaken. With severe exacerbations of arthrosis, when you can no longer walk properly, there can be no talk of any stress on the joint. Small movements without stress can help you a lot, even relieve some joint pain. The only problem is that these small movements need to be done for a very, very long time and slowly, without sudden jerks. This may simply not be enough patience. And those people who make these movements abruptly and quickly are mistaken, as a rule, this method of treatment does not lead to anything.

By swinging your leg, you help to improve the mobility of the joint, while the load does not come to the joint, swinging the limbs reduces pain in the joint. Joint-loading exercises are more suitable for the final stage of treatment when joint pain is mild. This is a kind of addition to the swings: squatting on one leg, taking the other leg to the side or, if more convenient, back. An exercise with the same effect is, lying on your side, on the floor, lifting your leg up and to the side. These exercises must be done with extreme caution, as they can lead to complications.

The emotional state of a person with arthrosis also plays an important role, since very often joint pain intensifies after the person is nervous. Here is a small list of exercises for people with arthrosis of the hip joint:

1. Sitting on a chair - the feet are on the floor - you need to slowly make small fluctuations with your hips from side to side, the amplitude of the movements performed should not exceed 1 cm.
2. Lying on the floor, on your stomach, make small movements with your pelvis from side to side.
3. Swings with a straight leg forward and backward, performed in a standing position.
4. Without bending the supporting leg at the knee, lunges with the other leg forward.

The following list is for people with arthrosis of the knee joint:

1. Sitting on a high chair or table so that the legs hang, perform light swinging of the leg.
2. With a sore knee, we try to get on the floor, at first we do it half-heartedly, that is, not with our entire body weight, and then it will be possible to kneel down completely.
3. Crawl on all fours on the carpet. You can proceed to such an exercise only after you have fully mastered exercise number 2.
4. Without reaching pain, perform a half-squat.

Author of the article: Kaplan Alexander Sergeevich | Orthopedist

Education: diploma in the specialty "General Medicine" received in 2009 at the Medical Academy. I. M. Sechenov. In 2012 completed postgraduate studies in Traumatology and Orthopedics at the City Clinical Hospital named after Botkin at the Department of Traumatology, Orthopedics and Disaster Surgery.