Clinically, gout is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by high uric acid. Gout patients often have symptoms of pain at night, and the pain is severe, which will affect their daily life. Of course, although gout attacks will make patients feel unbearable pain, many patients will also want to go to fitness and exercise.
Indeed, even in such a physical condition, exercise is necessary for gout patients. Because exercise helps to lose weight to control weight, is conducive to the excretion and regulation of uric acid, and can alleviate gout to some extent.
The problems that gout patients need to pay attention to when exercising are different from those without gout, and their physical functions are still different from those of normal people. Therefore, gout patients should pay more attention to fitness. So, how should gout patients exercise?
Avoid high-intensity and strenuous exercise. For gout patients, high-intensity and strenuous exercise will lead to high heart rate and life-threatening. So sprinting, football and other sports are not suitable for gout patients. Prepare enough warm-up time before exercise, which is generally longer than normal people. It is suggested that it be within 10 to 15 minutes.
Flexibility training should be carried out every day to maintain normal joint activities of gout patients and try to cooperate with their different joint traction and stretching. If you are a patient with knee and ankle joint diseases, you can choose aerobic exercise such as cycling, elliptical machine, rowing machine and swimming while carrying out joint traction and stretching activities.
Refuse to participate in sports with excessive weight or resistance, because such sports may cause more serious wear and tear to the affected joints. If patients want to take part in these weight-bearing or resistance exercises, one thing to remember is that they can't do high-intensity exercises and can choose the lowest standard.
The process of exercise should be gradual, and the amount of exercise to be carried out at the beginning is very small. After the body functions are fully adapted, gradually increase the amount of exercise. When making an exercise plan, we should consider whether there will be pain during exercise. Because pain is the biggest "opponent" of gout patients during exercise, maintaining long-term exercise is conducive to better promoting health.
In short, the exercise mode and amount of gout patients should be determined according to their own situation, so as not to make the body overwhelmed, so as to develop a healthy body to fight the disease. Moreover, only by maintaining a low purine diet and a reasonable weight in daily life can gout be effectively controlled. It is worth mentioning that for gout patients, reasonable exercise can not only lose weight, but also enhance physical fitness and control complications, which should not be contradictory.