Knee pain can be because of various reasons like overweight, lack of exercise or excessive use of knee joint, high uric acid and arthritis.
Some important tips:
Potassium or calcium deficiency can cause weakness in joints and bones. Take milk and banana more in breakfast
Don’t go for long walks or spend hours on the treadmill. Exercise according to your capacity
Do exercise sitting on a hard bed
Wear comfortable shoes which are suitable for walking
Yoga for Knee Pain:
Kapalbhati kriya
Sit comfortably on the chair, neck straight. Place both hands on your thigh, palm facing upwards, eyes closed. Exhale forcefully through both nostrils, simultaneously pulling your stomach in. Keep your body still. Breathe out completely and relax. Repeat this kriya three times.
Benefits:Fights obesity; shuns all the toxins from your air passages, combats asthma, massages abdominal organs and muscles.
Caution: If you have heart disease, high blood pressure or hernia, please exhale gently.
Titaliasana
Sit and stretch your legs forward. Bend them at the knees and spread them to join the soles of your feet. Interlock your hands and hold your feet at the toes. Now raise and lower your knees in quick succession, to stimulate the fluttering of a butterfly. Repeat this continuously 15 to 20 times.
Benefit: Removes stiffness from leg joints
Exercise for Knee Pain:
Ankle stretches
Keeping the legs stretched taut, move your feet at the ankle. Try and stretch it as far forward as possible and then as far back as possible. Repeat this 8-10 times.
Ankle rotation
Stretch your legs. Rotate both the foot in clockwise and anti-clockwise direction, making a circle. Repeat 4-5 times.
Thigh stretches
Stretch your legs forward, keep the pillow under your knees, now press your knees downwards gently on pillow, hold the position for some time. Repeat 4-5 times.
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