It rains and lumbago.

When I was a child, I liked to play with water in summer. I even put a bucket of cold water directly from the well and showered it from head to toe. That feeling is still cherished today. However, when it is cold, the old people in the village always advise me: "You will get arthritis in the future if you take a bath like this. It will be very painful when it rains, and you will regret it. "

Since then, I have deeply implanted such a view in my heart, which is also deeply rooted in the hearts of countless old people. That is to say, arthritis is caused by a long-term cold bath, and the onset is mostly related to weather changes. Especially when it rains continuously, all kinds of backache, leg pain and old pain will be aggravated. Therefore, when the old people in the village say that their backs are sore and their legs hurt, it will rain soon, which is almost a realistic version of the weather forecast.

Here, I want to refute the rumor. In fact, backache and leg pain cannot predict the so-called weather. On the contrary, there is no relationship between them. Why such a coincidence happens, I'm afraid it's related to low gas pressure and histamine secretion in the body. Next, let's take a closer look.

I believe that most arthritis patients have the misconception that the weather will aggravate their arthritis symptoms, such as joint pain and joint stiffness. In fact, it is not uncommon for arthritis patients to get worse symptoms under cold and humid weather conditions.

For example, in 2004, the Western Journal of Pharmacology published a study on arthritis and temperature change. In this prospective double-blind study, 92 patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis were compared with 42 subjects in the control group. The final conclusion is:

But so far, the research conclusions are different, and the overall conclusions are as follows: ① The weather will not affect the progress of arthritis. However, it may have a certain impact on the arthritis symptoms of some people; 2. A warm and dry climate may make some people with arthritis feel better, but there is no area without arthritis; ③ Some arthritis patients may be more sensitive to temperature changes, air pressure and humidity than others.

From the above conclusion, in the current study, we don't have an authoritative study to prove that any weather change has a strong correlation with the onset of any osteoarthritis. In other words, the aggravation of arthritis symptoms has nothing to do with air pressure, temperature, humidity and any other weather factors.

For a long time, people thought that arthritis was caused by cold and humid climate. Some people think that turning to a warm and dry climate is the cure for arthritis. Logically speaking, it can be inferred that if a warm climate can cure arthritis, people in other warm areas will not suffer from arthritis. In fact, in a cold and humid climate, even people without arthritis will have backache and leg pain.

In real life, when the weather changes from sunny to cold and humid, our mood often changes to a certain extent, such as the whole person is lazy and listless. In fact, this is the reason why the air pressure decreases and the parasympathetic nerve dominates the body. When the air pressure tends to decrease, the parasympathetic nerve will relax the muscles of the whole body and reduce the pressure on the main joints of the body. We shouldn't have backache, leg pain and joint pain. However, the decrease of air pressure will also stimulate the increase of histamine secretion in the body.

In fact, histamine can increase reactions such as allergies and joint inflammation, and can also promote blood vessel dilation and promote water in blood vessels to penetrate into interstitial spaces. At this time, our blood pressure drops rapidly. Not only that, increased histamine secretion will also stimulate sympathetic nerve excitement. Do you have such an experience? Do we always feel muscle swelling and pain after we do physical exercise? In fact, this is the feeling that histamine stimulates sympathetic nerves.

Do we find the above description strange? The decrease of air pressure will not only stimulate parasympathetic nerve, but also indirectly stimulate sympathetic nerve. This has a "positive and negative" effect on the nerves. Why does it cause muscle soreness to increase? In fact, it is precisely because the pressure drop not only stimulates the parasympathetic nerve, but also stimulates the sympathetic nerve that our body cannot achieve unified innervation. Moreover, under the dual effects of histamine and sympathetic nerve, our blood circulation will become unsmooth, and the body will naturally have various backaches and leg pains.

As I said above, the leg pain caused by weather change is due to the decrease of air pressure and the increase of histamine secretion. Therefore, if you want to avoid backache and leg pain, you need to exercise your muscles properly in rainy days and let too much histamine be excreted. Generally speaking, at this time, the amount of exercise should not be too much, the time should not be too long, and more importantly, the intensity of exercise should not be too large. Our main purpose is to excrete more histamine secreted by weather changes and increase blood circulation.

So in real life, we usually take simple aerobic exercise, such as cycling and jogging. Generally speaking, the exercise time is about 20 minutes, which is actually the degree to which we find it a little difficult to talk to people after exercise.

If we want to exercise, it's raining, so we can't go out. In fact, for most people, exercise is usually considered when pain comes. It is difficult to exercise outdoors at this time, so you can choose to stretch at home. More importantly, we can choose different stretching exercises for different joint pains, which are very effective in both exercising muscles and promoting blood circulation.

In fact, the so-called low back pain caused by weather changes is not necessarily caused by arthritis. On the contrary, for most patients without arthritis, it is more caused by the decrease of air pressure and the increase of histamine secretion. Therefore, if we have leg soreness after the weather changes, we should rule out the cause of arthritis at the first time. If there is no arthritis, then we can take the method I said to fight it, thus effectively relieving leg pain.

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