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Degenerative Joint Disease Exercises

If you suffer from degenerative joint disease, there are a number of exercises that your doctor may recommend that can strengthen the muscles in your back or neck and increase mobility in your arthritic joint. Obviously, before beginning any exercise regimen it is important that you meet with your doctor or another medical professional to ensure that each individual exercise is right for your condition. Exercising improperly or overdoing it can actually exacerbate your pain, or at least prove ineffective and a frustrating waste of time.

Causes

Also known as osteoarthritis, degenerative joint disease is commonly exhibited in the back and neck in individuals over the age of 50. An arthritic vertebral joint occurs when the cartilage that normally prevents the vertebrae from grinding against adjacent vertebrae wears away. Over time, bone-on-bone contact irritates soft tissue, leads to the growth of bone spurs, causes joint dysfunction, and can cause nerve compression in the spinal column.

One of the problems with arthritis is that there is no cure – at least not in the traditional sense. Arthritis cannot be undone and no exercise will make arthritis go away. What treatment can do, however, is help alleviate the patient’s arthritic pain and increase (or at least maintain) the mobility of the joint, thus mitigating the effects of this frustrating condition.

Effective Exercises and Other Treatments

Some effective degenerative joint disease exercises that might be recommended to accomplish these important goals include:

• Hydrotherapy
• Walking
• Taking yoga or Pilates classes
• Range of motion exercises
• Aerobic exercises
• Physical therapy sessions
• And more

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To learn which treatments and individual exercises are best for your condition, visit your physician or a spine specialist. If you are considering spine surgery to treat your degenerative joint disease, contact Laser Spine Institute to learn about our advanced, minimally invasive treatments for osteoarthritis.

Please note: Laser Spine Institute currently does not perform endoscopic procedures on the thoracic spine.