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If you have pain caused by arthritis,
bursitis, sports injury or other source, exercising
might seem out of the question. After all, your
inflexible and uncomfortable joints already pain
when you get out of bed, walk down stairs. Why
would you want them to experience the stress of
exercise?
The exercising would increase joint problems.
But it is found from years of research that the
less you move your joints, the weaker and more
painful they become. You then use them less, eventually
causing a decline in their ability to function.
One recent study of people with arthritis found
that women experience this decline most frequently.
Being physically inactive not only can worsen
your joint problems, it also increases your risk
for developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease
and osteoporosis.
Physical activity lessens chronic joint symptoms
and improves overall quality-of-life. It provides
those benefits without increasing healthy adults'
risk of developing osteoarthritis in the hips
or knees or musculoskeletal pain.
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