Whether you’re forced into taking over the counter, or prescription pain killers on a daily basis, or worse, you’re faced with the possibility of surgery or a major medical procedure in the foreseeable future, there are many simple things you can do to help ease your chronic joint pain.
The swelling, stiffness and fatigue that comes with joint pain can prevent you from living your best life. Many who suffer from pain feel that their life is simply easier if they just stay on the couch. The less movement you do, the less likely it is for you to experience pain, right?
This is absolutely wrong, in fact you can help ease your experience with joint pain and arthritis symptoms with simple exercises you can do at home.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that “regular physical activity can help relieve adult arthritis pain as effectively as over the counter medications”.
Yoga is great for reducing tension on the various joints in your body. Yoga and pilates exercises can help you maintain balance, coordination and flexibility.
This will help reduce the risk of falling which can obviously hurt your joints even more. Stretching will also give you the benefits of flexibility, range-of-motion and position awareness. This all will aid in joint flexibility and joint function, according to the CDC.
