Regular exercise if carried out sensibly can have a positive effect on the joints as it can help to strengthen them. It is important to warm up and cool down before exercising to prevent injury.
Excessive loosness of the joints
Flexibility training allows for easier and deeper movements while building strength and stability. Stretching your muscles and joints also leads to greater range of motion, improved balance, and increased flexibility.
Depends who you ask, I smoke 10 joints a day, so compared to me, not excessive at all, lol!
Exercise can often put stress on the bones, weakening them and leading to easier fractures. However, exercising keeps the bone joints healthy by promoting the production of synovial fluid, which lubricates the cartilage within the joints.
While some of these activity's can lead to situations where damage can be done to joints as a result of excessive strain. the use of muscles and their exercise as well as the joints is good for them. However if a sportsperson is unfortunate enough to have a genetic or other weakness leaning towards arthritis OA or RA then she or he will be forced to make life style adjustments to accommodate for it.
Running is an awesome workout for your heart. Make sure you run on the grass and not concrete so your joints don't take a beating, even the tracks made for running are not good on your joints.
All exercise is good for achy joints, provided its regimented and not too intense. Isometric exercise is particularly good if one is wanting to employ a strength exercise.
There are perhaps hundreds of diseases that attack joints. The effect on the joints is called Arthritis.
Joints require exercise to stay healthy, if you don't attempt any exercise, during a long period of time, this may cause the arthritic joint to stiffen, and the adjoining tissue to atrophy... hope this helped. katie g from worcs
Stiffness and pain in joints in joints and increased difficulty in getting the exercise required in a healthy life style add to this the side effect of the drugs required to keep the disease under control and it will have an effect of lowering the quality of life as well a shortening it to some extent.
An elliptical machine is basically a cross between a treadmill and an exercise bike. The motion of the legs on this stationary machine simulate walking or running and provide an excellent cardio workout without causing excess pressure to your joints.