My waist and legs ache when the weather changes. Is arthritis to blame? This article refutes rumors and tells the truth

When I was a child, I loved playing with water in the summer. I would even get a bucket of cold water directly from the well and shower it from head to toe. I still miss that feeling. However, while it was cool, the old people in the village always tried to persuade me: "If you take a bath like this, you will suffer from arthritis in the future. Then you will be in extreme pain on rainy days. You will regret it." < /p>

Since then, a view has been deeply implanted in my mind, and it is also a deep-rooted view in the minds of countless elderly people, that arthritis is caused by long-term cold bathing, and the onset of arthritis is often related to the weather. related to changes. Especially when it rains continuously, our various back pains, leg aches, leg pains, and old injuries will intensify. Therefore, when the old man in the village said that the pain in his waist and legs had worsened and that it was going to rain soon, it was almost a realistic weather forecast.

Here, I would like to dispel the rumors. In fact, pain in the waist and legs cannot predict the so-called weather. On the contrary, there is no relationship at all between them. Why such a coincidence occurs is probably related to low air pressure and the body's histamine secretion. Next, let’s take a look in detail.

I believe most arthritis sufferers have the misconception that weather can aggravate their arthritis symptoms, such as joint pain and stiffness. Indeed, it is not uncommon for people with arthritis to experience worsening of their symptoms in cold, damp weather conditions.

For example, in the "Journal of Western Pharmacology" in 2004, a study on arthritis and temperature changes was published. In this prospective, double-blind study, 92 patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis were compared with a control group of 42 subjects. The final conclusion is:

However, to date, the research conclusions are different. The overall conclusions are as follows: 1. The weather will not affect the progression of arthritis. However, it may have a certain impact on arthritis symptoms in some people; ②. A warm, dry climate may make some people with arthritis feel better, but there is no area without arthritis; ③. Some people with arthritis may be more sensitive to temperature changes, air pressure, and humidity than others.

From the above conclusion, in the current research, we do not have an authoritative study that can prove that any weather change has a strong correlation with any onset of osteoarthritis. In other words, arthritis symptoms worsen regardless of air pressure, temperature, humidity, or any other weather factors.

Arthritis has long been thought to be caused by cold, damp climates. Some people believe that moving to a warmer, drier climate is a cure for arthritis. Logically, it can be deduced that if a warm climate can cure arthritis, then people in other warm regions will not suffer from arthritis. In fact, in cold and humid climates, even people without arthritis can suffer from backache and leg pain.

In real life, when the weather changes from sunny to cold and wet rainy days, our emotions will tend to change to a certain extent, such as laziness, lack of energy, etc. In fact, this is because the air pressure decreases and the parasympathetic nerves take over and control the body. When the air pressure tends to decrease, the parasympathetic nerves will relax the muscles throughout the body and the pressure on the major joints of the body will decrease. Originally we should not have backache, leg pain, or joint pain. However, lowering air pressure can also stimulate an increase in the secretion of histamine in the body.

In fact, histamine can increase reactions such as allergies and joint inflammation, and can also promote blood vessel dilation and promote the penetration of water in blood vessels into tissue gaps. At this time, our blood pressure drops rapidly. Not only that, increased histamine secretion will also stimulate sympathetic nerve excitement. Have you ever had such an experience? After we exercise, we always feel muscle swelling and soreness. In fact, this is the feeling caused by histamine stimulating the sympathetic nerves.

In the above description, do we feel strange? Reduced air pressure stimulates both the parasympathetic nerves and indirectly the sympathetic nerves. This has a positive and negative effect on the nerves, so why does it cause increased muscle soreness? In fact, it is precisely because the reduction in air pressure stimulates both parasympathetic nerves and sympathetic nerves that our body cannot obtain unified innervation. Moreover, under the dual effects of histamine and sympathetic nerves, our blood circulation will become If it is very bad, your body will naturally experience various backaches and leg pains.

As I said above, the sore legs caused by weather changes are caused by lowered air pressure and increased histamine secretion. Therefore, if we want to avoid backache and leg pain, we need to exercise our muscles appropriately in rainy weather, so that excess histamine can be discharged. Generally speaking, exercise at this time should not be too much, the time should not be too long, and more importantly, the intensity of exercise should not be too high. Our main purpose is to expel the histamine secreted due to weather changes and increase blood circulation.

Therefore, in real life, we generally adopt simple aerobic exercise, such as cycling, jogging, etc. The exercise time is usually about 20 minutes. In fact, it only needs to be enough for us to feel a little strenuous talking to people after exercising.

Suppose we want to exercise, but it happens to be a rainy day and we cannot go out. In fact, for most people, they usually only consider exercise when pain comes. At this time, it is mostly difficult to exercise outdoors, so we can choose to do stretching exercises at home. More importantly, we can choose different stretching exercises for different joint pains, which are very effective in exercising muscles and promoting blood circulation.

In fact, the so-called waist and leg pain caused by weather changes is not necessarily caused by arthritis. On the contrary, for most patients without arthritis, they are more caused by lowered air pressure and increased histamine secretion. Therefore, if we experience sore legs after a change in weather, we should rule out arthritis as the cause as soon as possible. If there is no arthritis, then we can take the methods I mentioned to combat it to effectively relieve the pain in the sore legs.

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