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I've found that out. I danced and exercised all my life since 13 to into my mid 60's....years of dancing, gym and LONG LONG miles of walking. Never ran.
Today in late 70's joints are a MESS. I have talked to many others who did so much of what I did and they are having the same results in their older lives.
I deal with arthritis from an early age, 18 first sign, and today good gosh....
Your joints could have been destroyed with limited activity as well so that root cause is actually unknown
I think it all depends upon the kind of exercise and the type of joint damage. A major cause of joint damage would be OA, and when it's bone upon bone, people need knee replacements. It's from a wearing down of the cartilage. The only people I've ever known who needed knee replacements due to OA were either overweight and had put a lot of weight on those joints, people who had done a lot of heavy lifting, also putting a lot of weight on the joints, or people who ran on hard surfaces. I guess dancing on hard surfaces would do the same thing as running.
From what I've read, the best thing is to run on a beach or other surface that has "give."
I have moderate OA and I'm only 41. I have cracking bones. Actually exercise has helped me tremendously. When I was sedentary, i had to take prescription ibuprofen three times daily in order to not have pain. Now, I don't take any pain medicine at all. When I have a bad day (which thankfully isn't often), I just rest in bed. I believe that keeping myself moving and keeping my weight down are the keys here.
I've found that out. I danced and exercised all my life since 13 to into my mid 60's....years of dancing, gym and LONG LONG miles of walking. Never ran.
Today in late 70's joints are a MESS. I have talked to many others who did so much of what I did and they are having the same results in their older lives.
I deal with arthritis from an early age, 18 first sign, and today good gosh....
MODERATION. Keep moving, but don't go nuts.
You're in your late 70's. Some things are bound to hurt. Even if the exercise caused the joint issues, if you hadn't gotten it, you'd probably have other physical difficulties, such as diabetes or heart disease.
I've found that out. I danced and exercised all my life since 13 to into my mid 60's....years of dancing, gym and LONG LONG miles of walking. Never ran.
Today in late 70's joints are a MESS. I have talked to many others who did so much of what I did and they are having the same results in their older lives.
I deal with arthritis from an early age, 18 first sign, and today good gosh....
MODERATION. Keep moving, but don't go nuts.
That's a lot of extrapolation from your sample size of ... 1.
I've found that out. I danced and exercised all my life since 13 to into my mid 60's....years of dancing, gym and LONG LONG miles of walking. Never ran.
Today in late 70's joints are a MESS. I have talked to many others who did so much of what I did and they are having the same results in their older lives.
I deal with arthritis from an early age, 18 first sign, and today good gosh....
MODERATION. Keep moving, but don't go nuts.
False except at, possibly, the very extreme end of ultra-marathons and the like.
You just lost the genetics lottery. Staying active and exercising most certainly helped your arthritis far, far more than it did any damage. You just got crap joints. 13-year-olds do not go on and develop arthritis at 18 from exercising. Maybe a major trauma but not exercising. It just doesn't happen. Eg, I had an ACL tear as a teenager. Prevalence of OA out 10-20 years is around 500% higher for teenagers who get ACL tears than those who do not. That's pretty easy to measure since you've got two knees and most people don't tear both of them. If you the bilateral knees both have the same degeneration out 20 years, it's wasn't the ACL year. I'm about 15 years out now and non-symptomatic thus so knock on wood.
I have moderate OA and I'm only 41. I have cracking bones. Actually exercise has helped me tremendously. When I was sedentary, i had to take prescription ibuprofen three times daily in order to not have pain. Now, I don't take any pain medicine at all. When I have a bad day (which thankfully isn't often), I just rest in bed. I believe that keeping myself moving and keeping my weight down are the keys here.
It is good to walk and not be sedentary. You are young so lots of life ahead of you.
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