Smart Weight Loss January 2018

YOGA
by
Marianne Williams
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Yoga is great for stretching the muscles and ligaments that support your knees.
This article lists tdown 15 yoga poses that can help you ease knee pain.
Knees are possibly the most important
joints for mobility.
They’re also the most prone to
atrophy and injury, especially
if you live a sedentary lifestyle.
In the hope of finding relief, most American
reach for painkillers to help them go about
their daily life, but knee pain treatment comes
in simpler and much safer, forms. Yoga, for
example, is great for stimulating and stretching
the muscles and ligaments that support
your knees.
When knee pain is caused by underuse,
inflammation or arthritis, exercise is an effective
knee pain treatment. According to an
Arthritis Foundation write-up, exercise is one
of the best things you can do to help your
knees by helping maintain range of motion
and strengthening the muscles that support
them. Research shows that even relatively
minor increases in the strength of the quadriceps
– the muscles that run along the front
of the thigh – can help reduce the risk of
knee osteoarthritis and its progression, and
reduce pain. Before calling your physiotherapist,
there are many yoga poses you can do
at home every day to ease those knees!
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