Don't Be Weak in the Knees

Hisham Alshehri

By Martina Navratilova, AARP

    Sometimes we feel pain in our knees even the youth people feel that, but what is the reasons of that? Well, if you feel that then here are some reasons for that and how to make you knees stronger. Martina says our body take the decisions that we don’t want sometimes. Older people want to walk longer, but the knees pain were not want.  Martina was participating in Slims Championship, and she is attempting to win for the fifth time, but unfortunately her knees pains and she had to take an arthroscopic surgery. Statistics says that one of four sport injuries involves the knee. Not only athletic people who afflicted of knees problem, but also you if you ride a bike, dance, or climb stairs you can get a knees problems.  Knees are vulnerable to injury, although it work hard and without we can’t do any kind of sports. It let us to run, walk, lift, and kick. So, you should respect the knees that help you to go everywhere. When you get older, is the cartilage of the knees or meniscus, can tear. This tears sometime have to be removed by surgery. As researchers found that many people over 50 years old get tears in their knees.  Here is some suggestion to keep yourself away from knees problem without surgery. First of all, do some strengthening exercise at least once a week. Do some exercises for your body especially for the muscles surround your knees such as leg exercise. Second thing, listen to your body. People who do exercise or athletic people don’t overdo training or working, and that will probably causes an injury in the meniscus. Third advice here, try to do some quad stretches. After working out, do some quad stretches such as standing straight and holding the wall and try to balance yourself. Then bend the right knee behind you and hold it by your right hand, and stretch the thigh muscles for 10 seconds. Try this exercise again with the other knee. Fourth, try to do some normal activates or sports such as swimming or cycling. Even if you have trouble in your knees you can do that sport which can help your knees to be better.  Note if you cycling try to adjust the seat to proper your height so that won’t hurt your knees. Last advice, the main effect to the knees problems is the overweight. An overweight body put a burden on the knees which can causes a pain in the knees in most of the time. The best solution to that is to lose weight.

   This Suggestions from Martina were helpful for me because I have knees pain also and I’m doing cycling most of the time. I think these advices will help me to protect my knees from any burden that can happened to the knees. In this article I learned for the first time how our knees are weak and that we should treat our knees with respect to help me to do sport actives without feel pain.