Love Your Knees: 8 Ways to Treat Achy Knees

4. Ginger Extract

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Ginger Extract has been proven to work like aspirin by easing inflammation. Taking 510 mg daily, is reported to improve knee pain.

 

5.) Weight Loss

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Every pound you lose takes unnecessary pressure off of your knees. Staying active strengthens the muscles that support the knee joints. Experts strongly recommend avoiding two forms of exercise if you have knee pain, including: running and full leg extensions with resistance machine. Exercises that are encouraged include: bicycling, walking and swimming.

Experts also recommend strengthening glutes to relieve and prevent knee pain.  Check out this helpful video.

 

 

6.) Fish Oil

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Fish oil reportedly relieves stiffness, swelling and pain in the knee and other joints. (Make sure to confer with your physician before taking supplements.)

Kim Anthony

Kim Anthony

Hi, my name is Kim. I'm the Resident Life & Wellness Coach and Editorial Director of FitnessGalore.net. Additionally, as an adjunct professor of Psychology, I am an avid believer in the mind and body relationship and its connection to fitness and overall wellbeing.