Posted on 08/17/2016 8:09:36 AM PDT by rktman
One of the things to remember is that one CANNOT strength joints as they have no muscle in them, only tendons and ligaments, which cannot be strengthened.
One strengthens the muscles around them to make the joint MORE STABLE.
In all the joints of the body there are some 15-18 injuries that can occur, from the neck to the toes.
However, the KNEE can get some FIFTY, 50, different injuries. It is that "fragile," or injury prone.
The knee should never hurt in one's life (unless there are congenital knee problems) and when one starts having problems with them, say at 40, one OFTEN had forgotten the violent injuries sustained when in one's teens. That injury might have been from sports or a car accident.
One should never have knee problems ascending or descending stairs of any length. One can lose STRENGTH in the muscles around the knees, the thighs and calves, but that is NOT a knee problem. It's a sloth problem.
The standard tennis players who ALWAYS played on grass or clay almost never have knee problems but those who ALWAYS played on "hard courts" (Read that as concrete.) WILL probably have knee troubles . The collision of knee-foot on concrete is terrible for the knees.
The old maxim "the legs are the first to go" usually revolves around knee problems. I have played HARD for all my life and have never had knee problems BECAUSE I know how to take my knees and entire body. I didn't play tennis because of the concrete courts. Any running I did I did on sand, grass or dirt (college track).
I STILL play hard but NOW I need two days to recuperate. My old muscles can't rebound the way they used to.
One of the maxims in Weight Watchers is that obesity is VERY hard on the knees. To make the knees not hurt so much, weight must be lost.
I spent most of my teaching career teaching adults, both young (18) and old (70) and young people OFTEN ignore the signs of injury and soreness and will push right through them and continue to exercise. Continuing on already achy or overused joints is stupid beyond reason, but young people often aren't as smart as they could be.
The sport that incurs almost no injury is swimming. I always used to tell that to people who wanted to lose weight. If they were obese, then the water was even better as they would incur NO knee stress.
Golf is always a wonderful sport as it involves so much walking. Unfortunately golf is usually too slow for young folks. Too bad as it's one game that one can play forEVER.
Yes, I need barely literate steroid freaks who father many children by many different “baby-mamas” to tell me how to live....
I am ready to see the Entertainment world STARVED and brought to its collective knees.
A lot of “nevers” in that post. And frankly they’re all BS. Knees are just a bad design. They get hurt ALL THE TIME. All you’ve got to do is twist wrong ONCE and your knee is jacked for life. My bad knee started sitting wrong in a car on a cross country trip. It’s never been clean sense, exercise can make it so it doesn’t hurt a lot, but there’s always the threat. And back when I did a lot of walking I learned knee problems are contagious, you walk funny with a bad knee, and that bad walking puts added stress on the other knee and in relatively short order you have two bad knees. And bad hips, how you walk on bad knees jacks up your hips too.
Swimming still causes problems. Ear infections (which aren’t actually infections). If you do a lot of under water swimming it can play hell on your inner ear. And if you kick off from the walls a lot it can mess up your knees, so the no knee strain idea is bogus, it’s at best avoidable knee strain. And of course you’ve got all that time in the sun.
Tell Tiger’s back surgeon about how wonderful golf is. Heck tell any of the guys on the senior tour with those elongated putters. Golf is hell on the back.
The fact is pushing the body ALWAYS incurs wear and tear and that ALWAYS leads to problems. If you’re going to perform at maximum effort at anything it’s when not if you get hurt.
Well, I have a master's degree in this field and taught for 27 years at a college and saw ALL kinds of problems with athletes and ordinary folks from 18-70 years of age.
But, truly, it sounds to me like your problems might have reached above the neck. Your reasoning is as clear as gnat droppings in pepper.
Why would I want to hear a low IQ brain injured NFL player say anything?
ESPN must be destroyed
And now you resort to insults, thus proving you know you lack facts. So we both know you’re wrong, you just can’t admit it.
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