• Septimaeus@infosec.pub
    10·
    3 months ago

    OK I chuckled but real talk: knee trouble in your 30s isn’t normal and shouldn’t be treated as normal

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    37 here, my knees are great. Sprained my ankle back for the very first time back in November in my kickboxing class and I’m starting to fear I’ve done permanent damage.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    My knees and I have a love/hate relationship. They loved me for about 20 years and I hated on them so much that they no longer work

    • Nangijala@feddit.dk
      1·
      3 months ago

      Same. It satisfies my craving for popping bubble plast. More environmentally friendly too. Win/win.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I lost my knees at the ripe ol’ age of 14. Was playing racquetball at the Y, pivoted and it just hurt like a son of a bitch. Turned out I have a cartilage deficiency specifically in my knees as well as ton of damage from falling on them while rollerblading without protection, so kneeling on or doing anything that involves rigorous bending of my knees is out of the question.

    • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Until you sport too much and get an injury, and then it’s just a chain reaction of things breaking down because you can’t exercise them like you used to.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      I think the issue is that if you had injuries at younger age, those injuries become inflamed again as you become older. There are athletes who said their injuries become inflamed again when they hit 30’s. There are also soldiers who passed away after their old wounds became a problem again at old age. The body just can’t keep up repairing itself anymore.

      However, old injuries isn’t just the only explanation. If one have hardly been sporty or did labour intensive jobs at younger age and feeling pain on the knees, it could be genetics. If not, then it is something entirely within the person’s control: overweight. I have friends who gained weight tremendously over the years even though we are only in our early 30’s. One of my friends could hardly walk for long at a pretty short distance. I reckon it is because they work from home and don’t do any exercise (some of them became too jaded and insecure over the years to go to gym), while I and my other friend work on-site so we have more physically demanding jobs and we still do exercise.

  • ifeelsick@lemm.eeEnglish
    01·
    3 months ago

    just a reminder that most people bodies do not degrade. they just stop using them as much as they did when they were younger. the human body is surprisingly resilient to breaking down with regular upkeep. Motion is lotion