“Keep Moving But when …. why …. where?” Answer to “Why”

We continue from our last posts where we discussed  “Keep Moving But when …. why …. where?” and answered to   “When"

Now lets come to "Why"..

But “Why” to move? When my body is telling me not to move this body part, why should I move? 

Consider a door with a good oiled hinges. I use this door daily. But for a period of time, I had to move out of my house. So the house is closed and the door is not used till the day I return. After returning back when I open this door, it cracks as there is rust on the hinges. It doesn’t move well. Same is the result for our body. If we are not using any part for some time, it RUSTS ¹.  

Without appropriate movement, the optimal activity of the part gets reduced. 

For example, consider a simple condition of knee pain. Due to the pain, I will stop moving my knee. When I stop moving my knee, changes in the joint structure start happening. The surrounding muscles start getting weak as I am not using them optimally. Now due to changes in joint structure, muscle weakness and so on I won’t be able to move knee. So it becomes a vicious cycle.

Answer to “Why”:  We should move so that our body part won’t RUST.

In this way we answered “When” and “Why”.

1: This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t rest when it is indicated. As if we don’t rest when medically indicated we might cause more harm to the part.

“Keep Moving But when …. why …. where?” - Answer to “When”

In the last post I introduced the concept of  "Keep Moving for healthy living"

Let us get to answer for “When”.

If my body aches, if there is pain in my knee, if my ankle is swollen, if my shoulder clicks when I try to reach shelves above my head, then how am I supposed to move?

In conditions as above, our body tells us through pain, “There is some problem in this part. Please look at me. Please take care of me.” In such situations we should not move that particular region and consult appropriate medical advice.

Many a times REST is advised in initial stages of any medical problem. But after this initial stage MOVEMENT is advised.

So answer to “When”: after medical advice and under supervision of an experienced Physiotherapist.

Keep Moving for healthy living....

RehabWorld Physiotherapy Clinic has the motto of "Keep Moving for healthy living"…

Yes … we better keep moving.

The almighty has made our body in such a way that there are various movement which happen at different parts of our body. So normally these movements should happen. But for many reasons which at times are unnecessary, we stop moving optimally i.e we move less. 

Coming next posts will help us to understand this concept by answering,

“Keep Moving But when …. why …. where?”