Wearing out of joints

Merlot ditch the bag of sugar and do squats instead. They exercise all the muscles in the legs plus your gluteus maximus.

Arthritis isn't only because of age. There are strains of it that young people, even children, suffer from.

I know what gluteus maximus is. #bottom

With my luck the bag of sugar would burst.

Squats are very hard to do if you've got dodgy knees...

I can't do them. Can't stand the crunching noise.

Try toning tables. I know they get a bad press sometimes but I use them and after a session I know I've exercised. Admittedly you don't get your heart and lungs pumping but you definitely know you've exercised muscles. The good thing is that you put in as much or as little effort as your body can do. I work hard because I want to work the muscles and I'm capable of doing so. Other ladies let the machine do most of the work because they can't exercise but want to keep a better range of movement than they'd have if they did nothing.

Isn't swimming supposed to be the most joint friendly exercise?

bags, osteo arthritis is normally age-related. Rheumatoid conditions can be found at all ages.

I haven't been able to squat for years but thank goodness my hips are OK so I can bend over really easily.

I do lots of resistance work sitting on a gym ball which strengthens my core (theoretically....I'm not even sure I've found my core yet). I'm shoulder pressing/bicep curling 4kg and doing other work with resistance bands. The aim is to stay as strong as possible. Aerobically I'm pretty poor because of the asthma but can manage some short exercises. I'm the go to person for opening jam jars though!

How do people get into and up from chairs if they can't squat

It would seem that exercise, like almost anything in life, is best when done in moderation. Jogging frequently on hard surfaces is bound to do horrible things to ankles and/or knees and/or hips. Keen golfers develop problems with one shoulder because of the repetitive action. Go to any orthopaedic ward and count how many beds are occupied by middle-aged men having knee surgery as a result of sports damage.

anno, 'normally', as you say. But there are over two hundred different kinds of arthritis. I don't think it's rheumatoid arthritis that I've had since my late teens.

Not just sport but also walking badly. I'm forever noticing the number of people who walk with one, or sometimes two, feet pointing outwards. This will, over time, put pressure on hip and knee joints as leg joints twist against each other.

Anya the answer to your question, speaking as a non-squatter- is that they always choose chairs with arms and lever themselves up. In instances where no such "aids" are available, a discreet push up on the edge of the seat helps. Low sofas etc are to be avoided at all costs!

So they use arm not leg muscles Gaga OK.

I'm asking for a friend who is beside herself with worry. She had a hip replavement which failed after a year and consequently had hip revision surgery. Since then she has had multiple prosthetic hip dislocations with each one requiring the emergency services to our nesrest A&E wherr it is pulled back into place. She wasnt doing anything when it happened. Once was in a specially raised chair turning the pages of a newspaper. She has had 8 dislocations now in 6/8 months. Help?

Sorry ThelmaJean I can't help on that one. Probably your friend has been out of action for so long that her muscles (which support the joints) have become very weak. She maybe needs prolongued physio.
My doctor once said to me when I was complaing of osteoarthritis all over " everyone gets it after 70."
Being overweight adds to the problem.
I once read of a new treatment where artificial cartilage was fed into the damaged joint. It's wornout cartilage which causes the damage to the joints.

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