How does rheumatoid arthritis exercise? How about a hot bath in the morning?

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As an autoimmune disease, rheumatoid arthritis often occurs in human hand, wrist, foot and other small joints, once the force is not appropriate, it will be severe pain, even deformity. How to protect the joints in life?

How does rheumatoid arthritis exercise? How about a hot bath in the morning?

First: often do joint stretching exercise. Studies have found that if patients with rheumatoid arthritis can do some stretching exercise every day, it can significantly reduce the number of joint pain. When doing joint stretching exercise, all joints of the whole body should be gradually stretched from top to bottom, and the strength of stretching should not cause pain. In the morning, you can take a hot bath (to relieve joint stiffness), and then do stretching exercises, such as kneading, splitting and fingers.

Second: to protect the joint, pay attention to the small things: to avoid the stress on the finger joint, the key is in some small things, for example, try not to use the handle of the water cup, should use the palms of both hands together to hold the water cup. Don't let your fingers press the buttons of clothes clips, nail clippers, and watering cans. Don't use one or two fingers to pull the drawer. Don't write, knit or look for words for a long time. When you get up, don't use your hands to hold up your body, but use the palms of your hands to support your body and sit up slowly. When cutting hard things with a knife, hold the handle of the knife with your palm and press it down hard instead of pressing the back of the knife with your fingers.

Third: exercise often change position: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis should adhere to exercise three times a week, 30 minutes for each exercise, suitable exercise items, including cycling, swimming, lifting light dumbbell, etc. At the beginning of exercise, do some short time, low intensity exercise, and then gradually increase the time and intensity of exercise.

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In the process of exercise, we should constantly change the position to avoid a long time stress on a joint. If we feel pain in the affected area, we should stop exercise immediately.