Does practicing Tai Chi hurt your knees?

When we are in the park, we often see many old men and women practicing Tai Chi for a long time. Some people often practice for half an hour or an hour. However, everyone thinks that practicing Tai Chi requires standing in a horse stance, which is more harmful to the knees. This is true, but for people who don’t have any major knee problems, practicing Tai Chi has many benefits to the body.

When practicing Tai Chi, practitioners experience varying degrees of knee pain. Many people who do not know the truth mistakenly believe that their knee joints have been damaged or injured by practicing Tai Chi.

In fact, this is a huge misunderstanding. Tai Chi is a classic of Chinese traditional culture and a traditional sport. Its fitness and strengthening effects have been confirmed by history and science. Practicing Tai Chi can keep you healthy and keep you healthy. Many chronic diseases can be cured through practicing Tai Chi, and even old injuries and pains can heal themselves without you even noticing.

How can practicing Tai Chi cause knee pain?

Knee pain has both traumatic and pathological causes. Joint diseases such as pain, rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis, joint effusion and other inflammatory and aseptic senile degenerative joint aging; traumatic such as chronic strain caused by excessive exercise and injuries and bruises caused by unscientific and non-standard boxing methods. Knee pain caused by Tai Chi exercise is mainly due to unscientific exercise methods, irregular practice methods, and injuries caused by excessive fatigue from exercise.

Generally speaking, the fatigue and soreness that occur when you first learn Tai Chi are temporary and will be relieved and recover on their own after rest. However, knee joint wear, fluid accumulation, swelling, etc. caused by unscientific, non-standard and incorrect exercise methods are difficult to recover. In mild cases, it not only affects the practice of boxing, but also affects daily work and life. In severe cases, it can even cause disability.

I think that when practicing Tai Chi, there are many details worth discussing and exchanging with fellow practitioners on how to protect the knee joints from injury, and to seek preventive methods from the causes of knee pain.

one. Scientific exercise to prevent knee joint injuries

Any sports activity should promote scientific exercise. Practicing Tai Chi is no exception. Tai Chi itself is a scientific traditional sport. Scientific exercise includes psychological and physical aspects. Psychologically, you should be calm and inactive; physically, your whole body should be in harmony, balanced and coordinated, relaxed inside and out; you should train your muscles, bones and skin externally, and your breathing internally. For example, warm up before practicing boxing. It is a very important part of scientific boxing practice.