My mother is around 50 years of age, she has knee pain and x-rays show two joints very close to each other, the joints have degraded and she has problems to walk. As she is not able to walk much, she is gaining weight a lot. So a doctor suggested that she can workout on home weight loss cycle. But a second opinion said that she must not ride cycle at all. Now we are confused, should she use cycle for weight loss or not?

Dr. Julie Mercy J David RajaPhysiotherapist21yrs exp

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Simple Knee ExerciesSpecific knee exercises will also help ie. Keeping ball underneath the knee and keep pressing it. That's the simple exercise which will help you to strengthen the knee Ice therapy would definitely help to reduce the inflammation. We also advise you to use knee cap which would help to prevent the knee from damaging further and also to maintain the quadriceps muscle tone. I also advise you to use knee cap which would help to prevent the knee from damaging further and also to maintain the quadriceps muscle tone. Knee pain more than 2 weeks:if your knee is paining since 2 weeks, then you have to rethink whether you had any injury in the previous years. I also advise you to use knee cap which would help to prevent the knee from damaging further and also to maintain the quadriceps muscle tone. As arthritis is very common if anyone would've neglected any injury in the previous years. You can take Ultrasonic therapy in one of the nearby physiotherapy clinics which would help to heal the damaged cartilages along with shortwave diathermy which would help to improve the blood circulation. Ice therapy would definitely help to reduce the inflammation.  

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