Self-treatment for rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is actually not uncommon in our daily lives. Women are especially more vulnerable to these diseases. Generally, it will seriously affect our body coordination ability, especially joint pain will bring great obstacles to life. Therefore, we must attach importance to treatment and health care. So, in addition to medication, how can you treat rheumatoid arthritis yourself in your daily life?

In addition to receiving drug treatment or some more formal surgeries for many diseases, care and health care in daily life is also very important, especially for joint diseases. If you can do some health exercises appropriately, it can have a good alleviating effect.

Operation method: "Joint gymnastics" designed for arthritis is a commonly used exercise therapy. The specific operation is as follows:

① Knuckle exercises: alternate between clenching your fists and stretching your fingers. When making a fist, you can hold a pencil or a thicker stick tightly; when stretching your hand out, you can place your palm and fingers flat on the table, or put your hands together tightly.

② Wrist joint exercises: Put your hands together, and flex and extend them to one side repeatedly and alternately. You can also hold the dumbbells tightly and do finger flexion and extension exercises.

③Elbow joint exercises: With your palms facing up, raise your arms forward, quickly clench your fists and bend your elbows, trying to get your fists to your shoulders, then quickly extend your palms and elbows, repeat several times, then raise your arms to the sides, clench your fists and bend your elbows as before.

④ Shoulder joint exercises: Stretch one arm from the front beside the neck to the back, with the palm touching the back. At the same time, stretch the other arm from the side (underarm) to the back, with the fingers touching the back. Try to bring the fingers of both hands close together on the back. Repeat several times a day.

⑤ Ankle joint exercises: Sit down and perform flexion and extension as well as bilateral rotation exercises on the ankle joint.

⑥ Knee and hip joint exercises: alternate between squatting and forward leg lifting exercises.

The above is the self-treatment method for rheumatoid arthritis. After understanding it, we found that this is actually a form of health exercise. By properly moving our joints, we can prevent rheumatoid arthritis. Therefore, you might as well try these methods in your life.