Arthritis

Recommended exercises for Knees.

Clients are often interested in doing yoga but are concerned that some of the poses will hurt their arthritic knees or will be too difficult for them. The Vintage Fitness personal training team is specialized to modify poses to make them work for every body. At its core yoga is about creating quiet space in your life and taking deep breaths.
Try the general yoga poses shown below (you don’t have to get down on the floor or kneel!)

Many of the personal training clients who work with Vintage Fitness trainers have some form of arthritis. The arthritis societies booklet about arthritis and exercise says that: The word arthritis means inflammation of the joint ("arth" meaning joint and "itis" meaning inflammation).Inflammation is a medical term describing pain,stiffness,redness and swelling. There are more than 100 types of arthritis.Some are caused by joint inflammation,while others are caused by joint degeneration.

The shoulder joint is a ball and socket joint that makes it amazingly mobile as well as at risk for injury. Our personal training team at Vintage Fitness see clients with shoulder pain every day due to impingement conditions such as arthritis, tendonitis, bursitis (rotator cuff disease) and frozen shoulder. It is important to have your shoulder pain properly assessed to understand the root cause. Here are a few general tips to help ease shoulder pain:

People need to have joints replaced for a wide range of conditions such as arthritis, bone tumours, fractures, pain and poor quality of life. The most common joints to replace are the hip and the knee.  Here are a few tips to help you to prepare for your joint replacement:

The Vintage Fitness in home personal training team specializes in energizing the lives of people over 50 understand and empathize with clients who are scared or unmotivated to start to exercise. We work slowly focusing on a goal that is important to the client. Vintage Fitness is a team of personal trainers who work across the GTA including Mississauga, Oakville, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, Ajax, Oshawa, Pickering and Downtown.

This is the last of a three part series all about arthritis and exercise. There are over 100 types of arthritis so all of these exercises may not be right for you. Listen to your body, if you experience sharp pain when doing the exercise then stop.

Exercise will strengthen the muscles around your joints, build bone strength, help to maintain a healthy weight to reduce stress on the joints. An arthritic joint that is not moved will become more stiff and painful than one getting some movement. Here are a few tips to keep in mind:

Many of the personal training clients who work with Vintage Fitness trainers have some form of arthritis. The arthritis societies booklet about arthritis and exercise says that: The word arthritis means inflammation of the joint ("arth" meaning joint and "itis" meaning inflammation).Inflammation is a medical term describing pain,stiffness,redness and swelling. There are more than 100 types of arthritis.Some are caused by joint inflammation,while others are caused by joint degeneration.

There was a great article in October's Nutrition Action magazine all about how to prevent and ease the pain of osteoarthritis. The cause of osteoarthritis is the break down of the cartilage that cushions where bones meet at a joint which leads to pain and stiffness. The main causes of the condition are:

Many of the Toronto based clients that Vintage Fitness works with suffer from Arthritis of various kinds—it is often the condition that keeps them inactive and worried about causing more joint pain. Exercise will reduce arthritic pain by strengthening the stabilizing muscles around the affected joint and keep the joints from stiffening up.