painful knee joints, how exercise?

D_squareG

I have a valgus knee (it collapses inwards) and arthritis. I wear a knee brace when I walk or am weight bearing for a long time. I found the recumbent bike at the gym to be a great way to get in some exercise, build leg muscle, and burn calories. I'm up to a level 11 for 60 minutes. I started at 1 for 20. I highly recommend this to anyone who is arthritic or too heavy to exercise.

3laine75

How serious is the problem? Obviously ignore this advice if it's a serious medical condition but (progressively harder) squats are amazing for knee problems/pain. Building up the muscle that surrounds the joint has left me knee pain free

ETA: and fish or omega 3 supplements.

MscGray

You might want to check w/ physical therapy places...I injured my knee from a slip on the ice, initially it hurt like hell to walk or sit or lay down. My therapist worked with me finding exercises that didn't cause pain to the knee, but allowed the issue to heal while strengthening everything around it so that when it felt better and went load bearing again it held up better and didnt collapse again.

JayMri

Have you seen a doctor to find out what the pain is from? I actually have some arthritis. He sent me to physical therapist who had me doing exercises to strengthen where my knees were weak to help combat it.

Yup .... start working out! and suck it up... I had bad knees and still have joint pains but I work through it everyday. I know ... I know your pains are worse right? I can only tell you I could hardly walk at one point in time and I worked through that ... suck it up and just start and do what you can ...as the weight comes off the joints get better.... **** gets easier... life gets better and better

Same as above. I did start with low-impact stuff but rarely do that anymore and my knees have gotten better.