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Far Infrared Therapy Aims To Help Old Knees  

Do you suffer persistent knee pain? Are your sore knees preventing you from
enjoying an active life style? Has your doctor told you to exercise but the knee pain
is just too great?

Far infrared therapy garments offer effective, beneficial health care solutions for
stiff, injured knee joints. Knee osteoarthritis is the main medical complaint causing
disability and reduced mobility in older people. Knee osteoarthritis is a  
musculoskeletal condition that usually occurs in both older people and ex-athletes
because the cartilage between your bones erodes with age, incorrect or excessive
use, thus allowing the bones to rub against each other to cause pain.

Exercise and Knee Osteoarthritis
A 2008 study conducted at the University of Missouri School of Health Professions
has researched the best ways to treat knee osteoarthritis in older people and ex-
athletes, with specific focus on the type of exercise training needed to achieve the
optimum benefit for knee osteoarthritis. "Exercise is really a panacea in a lot of
ways," Physical Therapy Professor Steve Sayers, who is leading the research
team states. "It’s, like, the greatest pill you could ever take because it solves so
many problems." The new approach studied by the researchers asks their patients
to train at high speeds with low weight resistance, instead of the more traditional
low-speed, high-resistance knee osteoarthritis therapy.  

The aim of this style of training is to achieve faster movement. This leads to
speedier reaction times, such as crossing busy roads or achieving a quicker
recovery response from an accidental tripping. Traditional physiotherapy has
focused on building strength in knees but neglects the importance of speed in life’s
everyday activities.

Far Infrared Therapy Garments Ease Knee Osteoarthritis Pain
Far infrared therapy garments play a vital role in maintaining the required flexibility
and pain-free joint movement needed to enhance a faster, smoother joint action.
Far infrared health care expert, Gloria Chang says, "This is because, for many
sufferers, the excruciating pain and inflammation of knee osteoarthritis prevents
them undertaking suitable exercise, frequently leaving them wheel chair or bed
bound. Fortunately, these new technologically-advanced fibres are now available
to assist pain sufferers achieve the greatly improved health benefits and life style
they desire."

FIR Therapy Garments Provide Effective
Compressive Support for Knees
Using the scientific principles of far infrared thermal energy, these therapy
garments provide warming compressive support which can also reduce
inflammation, promote improved healing and reduced pain in damaged knee joints.
FIR therapy garments offer a more convenient, effective and affordable arthritis
pain solution than traditional steam or far infrared saunas. Importantly, there is no
requirement for a power supply nor the risk of electrical shock. For sufferers, far
infrared therapy knee body bands allow them to see positive results from their
exercise regimen, so that once painful movement becomes comfortable, easy and
fluid.

Orthopedic surgeons who frequently operate on patients suffering from knee
osteoarthritis agree many people are too quick to seek a surgical or medicinal
solution rather than safe, less toxic or less invasive treatments, such as far
infrared therapy. Further, people need to be aware that they can avoid or delay
surgery through gentle, regular exercise. It is important to understand that no new
artificial joint put in today is going to be as good as the one you were born with.

This research supports the results of a 2005 study conducted by Dr. Kim L.
Bennell, from the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia and colleagues who
concluded that physiotherapy may not reduce knee arthritis pain and disability
associated with osteoarthritis of the knee.

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