how can i strengthen my knees?plz tell me foods or medicines that make knees stable?
361128
First off I would say weight control is first and foremost, next I would think that calcium plus vit d would help over long period of time. Knee exercises strengthen ligaments and muscles around the joint to keep it in place better and keep it stronger. and of course drink lots of water, take vitamins.....exercise regularly.
1090529
If you have knee problems, then jogging (especially if you're carrying a lot of weight) is only going to make them worse.\n\nFirst of all, get a proper diagnosis on what the knee problem is and what you can do to solve it.\n\nNext, do some other form of cardiovascular exercise which has less impact on your joints; cycling, walkin, swimming etc.  Swimming will also help your breathing if you're asthmatic.\n\nNext incorporate some core strength and some balance work into your exercise regime - join a gym and/or get a good personal trainer to help you here.  If you're still not sure, see a physiotherapist.\n\nIncrease the ammount of walking you do, with your own limits to build strength and stability back into your joints, increase your cardiovascular fitness, increase the strength and endurance of your leg muscles and prepare yourself for running.  Running is just an exhaggerated form of walking - but one that places 10 times the ammount of pressure through your spine and joints as walking does!\n\nAssuming everything has gone well to this point, start doing some fartlek (interval) training sessions.  This means walking a bit, running a bit.  You can make it very technical with the timings, but that's all you really need to know.  Run as much as you can, walk when you need the rest.\n\nStretch!!!  Streching muscles is the most forgotten part of any exercise regime, but muscles that are continually worked start to shorten.  This puts extra pressure on joints and your posture.  It's a viscious cycle - poor joint strength, flexibility and posture leads to incorrect movement, leads to poor joint strength, posture and flexibility.  Eventually you get injured.\n\nIt sounds like a long haul - and depending on the severity of your various conditions - it might be.  But there is no quick fix, and a long fix is better than a long term problem.\n\nGood luck!
365050
herb? not that im aware of. if its muscle stiffness, im sorry, if its joint stiffness you may be fine. try a magnesiun/calcium supplament, and E might help too. ive got major cartilage damage in both my knees so i know how u fel waking up stiff. also if you can get some slow release ibuprofin, that will keep any swellin own that may cause stiffness(that goes for muscle too)
1014952
I play basketball all the time, too, so I suffer from knee problems. I have a weak left knee because of it. I suggest wearing a knee brace when you play the actual game. Keep taking Advil. Use that Icy Cold stuff that Shaq and Mia Ham advertise on TV. That really works. Take a bath and soak your knees. And stretch well before the game. Hope you play well tonight! :)
465914
mine too! from sports. nothing you can do, you can get knee surgery though.
343182
I was diagnosed when I was about 13, and was told to do special excercises to strengthen the tissues around the knee.  I did them a little bit, but I mostly just quit jogging and doing heavy excercising.  I am now 27 and I don't have any problems with it, but I am not very active either.  I also used to wear "CHO-PAT'S" when I would have to run or excercise, they seemed to help reduce the friction.  I started riding the bike a lot more, but I found that even that seemed to aggravate it, swimming was good, but I had to be careful not to kick to hard or my knees would get stiff and achy afterward.  \nMy older brother also had this, and he had to have surgery a couple of times because he didn't slow down in his activies.\nIn short-to answer your question- you should take it easy.  You can still be active, but be careful, and choose your activities wisely, or you may end up having to have surgery.\n(Hope this helped, and good luck!  Don't worry, there are worse problems you could have with your health!  You still have a lot of activity to look forward to.)
195665
well first off stop doing things to make it hurt, then u can always get a knee brace and take some pain pills  or just think of something or someone else to keep ur mind off of the pain
577676
be careful and take care of your knees.  also make sure your muscles in the thigh are equally developed, i didn't do this and now the knee cap moves up and out over the end of the femoral head rather than in that groove where it's supposed to be causing bone degeneration and a lot of pain.  see your doctor and find out how to take care of yourself.  if you let knee problems continue you will be limited later in life with the activities that you can do.
716755
Make sure you don't extend your knees past your toes when exercises (squats, plyometrics, etc.)  Also make sure you are incorporating stabilization exercises in your work out. Try squats on balance discs.  This will help employ and strengthen the muscles around your knees and make them stronger.
270058
sounds like arthritis . . .I have it myself in most of my joints.  Advil, regular walking, a knee brace and will power.  That's all you can do really.
821439
keep ur knees in hot water for a few minutes.\nIt will give a lot of relief
956795
Good old fashion squats. The key is to push up with your heels after you squatted. It works the butt and the back of your thighs. Or you can climb up and down the stairs 5 times. Both are free :)
1036038
put more rotation in your hips and more "push off" from back leg.  If you can rotate hips and push off at same time you wont drop knee.
501884
Try this one it works.  Lay on or back arms out to side and knees drawn up. Put your feet together and make big figure eights in the air  with them. I know this sounds silly but it tightens those muscles. i mean swing your feet to the side down and then around and up and over to the other side. A big loop on each side.  do it every day as many as you can.
818854
Probably the exercise bike as it doesn't put a lot of stress on the knee (as long as you don't put to much resistance on the flywheel/tensioner,also make sure your seat is the correct height you want to have a slight bend in your knee at full stretch.
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Pilates is pretty good to tone muscle and trim a waistline, it mostly uses lifting weights with arms, stretching, lifting your legs up and down, and other exercises using your own body weight, like situps, crunches, etc. A lot of it is done sitting in a chair or lying on an exercise mat. If it doesn't hurt to bend your knee, I'd reccommend Pilates.\n\nAnother good low impact exercise is swimming. It might hurt to flail your knee around and bend it a lot, so just keep using steady up and down motions with your feet and see if you could practice swimming on your back - it gives you the buoyancy of floating and so your feet can relax and you can just move your arms around. \n\nYet another suggestion I have is an exercise ball - if you have fat in your stomach, then as long as you have the strength to stand up for a while, you can lean with your back on a large ball and do crunches on it. The exercise ball will keep you balanced but it gives you enough rolling around and slipperiness to where you really have to use your abs to keep yourself on it.\n\nA final suggestion I have is a better diet. I had a friend who suffered a bad ankle injury and her ankle was twisted sideways and she now walks very peculiarly and cannot run or do any exercises with her feet as well. She gained close to 50 pounds after about two years because she did not adjust her diet despite how sedentary and inactive her life became. I'd cut down on sweets and sodas and try to eat mostly lean meats like chicken breast (grilled, with the fat trimmed off) and some lean fish, grilled or baked, maybe 90%fat free ground beef, the expensive kind, use that in a hearty vegetable-laden chili. Eat more fiber to keep your digestive system running like clockwork - I know that Jewel Osco sells these high fiber tortillas, they're great with some salsa and lettuce and browned lean ground beef, kind of a healthier burrito. Avoid simple sugars, white airfluffed American  type breads, etc
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After working unloading trucks for 6 months, my knees hurt so much I couldn't climb the 1 flight of steps to my apartment. My cousin, who works in a nursery and spends all day kneeling and lifting trees and plants, turned me on to glucosamine sulfate.\n\nBuy them at ay drug store. Glucosamine Sulfate. Not the fancier stuff with extra stuff in it. \nTake 2 at night for a week.\nThen take 1 a day for at least a month. \nYou'll feel like a new person.\n\nWhenever you have flare-ups in the future, take 1 a day until the pain stops - usually in a week.\n\nIt helps to rebuild the cartalige in your knees, and your bones are pressing on their natural cushion again, unstead of a flattened, compressed sponge, which creates friction on your bones.