Knee pain? Maybe badly walk … that’s how you should do

We are sure of Knowing how to walk in the right way? Learning to take one step after another in the most correct way for your body posture, it can be the ideal solution to get around annoying knee pains that mainly affect the population over 40. According to a recent study of theUTAH Universitypublished on Lancet rheumatologychanging the way of walking can alleviate pain by avoiding having to take drugs.

In fact so far when a Knee pain linked to arthrosis or a cartilage degenerationthere seems to be no way to bring the problem back and at the same time only drugs help to relieve pain. To date, almost one person out of four over 40 suffers from knee disorders mostly linked to forms of arthrosis, which in some limited cases can be resolved with a surgical operation. The goal of the study was to find a partial solution to the problem without external interventions but getting used to the body in a different way of walking. Change the corner of the foot It allows you to reduce the load of the weight on the painful knee allowing to reduce the progression of osteoarthritis, in those patients where the problem occurs.

THE UTAH researchers They tested their hypothesis on a group of 68 patients with knee pain and arthrosis problems. Participants underwent exams to study the way they walked, also finding alternative solutions. Specifically, it was seen that they were all united by a similar defect and that they tried to resolve by adjusting the corner with which they tended to support the foot. Patients were invited to train this way of walking for 6 weekspracticing the pace for at least 20 minutes a day until it reaches the point of which it turned into their normal pace. A year after the experiment, patients who had corrected the way of walking communicated that they perceive the pain less. The doctors, through the use of a magnetic resonance imaging, also discovered a slower degradation of a cartilage health marker.