One of the first thngs that people with arthritis notice is that the affected joints start losing the normal amount of movement that they once had. This is caused in a lot of cases by the supporting muscles locking up to protect the inflamed joint. A good way of treating this is by stretching the...
Author: PaulaNevarez
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Oblique Sit Up
Core strength is fundamental to pilates philosophy and the oblique sit up is a very important way of strengthening the underlying abdominal muscles that can be forgotten when doing standard crunches or exercises simply focusing on a “six pack”. While the focus of the oblique site up is not on the common six pack muscle...
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Loosten your groin
When joints become inflamed all of the suppoorting muscles in the vicinity of that joint become tense and loose their effectiveness at the full length of movement. The groin muscles or adductors are typically shortened by an inflamed hip joint and this is not very good for rehabilitation of the joint because by shortening it...
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The Hundred
The hundred is an excellent stomach exercise for developing torso stability and abdominal strength. It is also known as a hundred seconds of pain for obvious reasons as well. It is very important to hold your neck correctly because the exercise is more effective if your head is kept high, this also prevents neck strain....
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Keep inner leg muscles strong
Arguably the most important part of arthritis treatment is working the affected joints through their entire range of movement and stregthening the supporting muscles. The frog legs is an exercise that achieves both of these for both the hip joint and knees. It is very important, as knee joints wear to keep the inner leg...