Exercise In The Water

If you're worried that exercising will be too hard on your knees, try exercising in the water first. The buoyancy will take the load off your knees, allowing you to exercise with less pain and stress on your joints.

Don't Participate In High Impact Activities

Basketball, tennis, racquetball, squash, soccer, and football are hard on the knees because they involve sudden starts, stops, and turns as well as jumping and landing. Avoid any type of exercise that involves jumping if you have knee pain.

Walk

Moderate walking is recommended for people with knee pain because it's a low-impact activity. If your joints are painful and stiff, start slowly and work up to 20 minutes of walking per day. Plus, daily walking will help with weight loss, which is a bonus because carrying extra weight puts stress on the knees.

Don't Exercise On Hard Surfaces

Walking or running on concrete or asphalt is a bad idea when suffering from knee pain because these surfaces have no shock absorption. Dirt paths and grass is another good option because it absorbs shock, but it tends to be bumpy and uneven. If grass and dirt don't sound appealing, take your walk indoors. Treadmills have the most consistent surfaces and pretty good shock absorption.

Use Knee Friendly Exercise Equipment

Stationary bikes and elliptical machines allow you to get a good aerobic workout without stressing your knee joints. Recumbent stationary bikes are even better because you're not sitting upright while exercising, which takes more weight off the knee joints.

Don't Bend The Knees Excessively

Avoiding doing full squats and leg presses. These strength-training routines often requires bending the knees beyond 90 degrees, which puts excessive pressure and strain on your knees.

Strengthen Your Muscles

Like a natural knee brace, stronger muscles will help compensate for weak or injured tendons, ligaments and joints. The quadriceps and hamstrings are the two main muscle groups that support the knee. Do straight leg raises to strengthen the quadriceps and walk backward to help strengthen the hamstrings.

Don't Over-Do It

When muscles are fatigued, they can't absorb as much shock, which places extra stress on your knees. Start your exercise program slowly and make sure to switch up your exercises every day to help avoid overuse injuries like tendonitis. Consider alternating walking and swimming.

Warm Up And Stretch

Warm, flexible muscles aren't injured as easily. Take a few minutes to stretch the quadriceps and hamstrings before your workout. Then start with five minutes of slow walking before getting into the pool or pedaling on the stationary bike. This will also get your heart rate and breathing revved up slowly, which is beneficial for overall fitness.

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The term BFST stands for Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy and it was created by King Brand Health Care. Blood flow is very important to help heal injuries, and after years of research and development they have come up with a product that does just what it says. No other company can match what King Brand does. They are the only company on the market that can directly target injuries at a cellular level with no surgery or doctors visits needed. Of course it’s important to visit the doctor when you've injured yourself, but their treatment modalities can be done in the comfort of your own home.

The King Brand forum is a great place to research specific ailments and to figure out whether or not the BFST and ColdCure products can help. Their treatment advisors are constantly posting on forums to help educate people on how to heal their injuries. If you can't find the answer you're looking for, then feel free to take part in their forum by registering.

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To treat a Baker's Cyst, should I get the Knee ColdCure or the Leg ColdCure?

A customer asked, "To treat a Baker's Cyst, should I get the Knee ColdCure or the Leg ColdCure?"

Re: To treat a Baker's Cyst, should I get the Knee ColdCure or the Leg ColdCure?

To treat a Baker's Cyst, we recommend the Leg ColdCure wrap. The reason is because the Leg ColdCure wrap has an effective treatment area of 10" x 7", which is capable of wrapping around the back of the knee, and applying cold compression to the back of the knee, which is typically where a Baker's cyst is found.

The Knee ColdCure wrap can still be used to treat a Baker's cyst, it would just need to be rotated around so that the cold therapy applies to the back of the knee - the fit will not be ideal on the back of the knee, as the Knee ColdCure is designed specifically to treat the front of the knee.

The Leg ColdCure is most ideal for a Baker's cyst because it provides a better fit. The Leg ColdCure is a more versatile wrap and can be used to treat any area of the leg or hip.

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