Source: CCTV Life Circle
Pay attention to your walking posture and explore the mysteries of health~
Walking isn't just something we do every day
It is a mirror of health
It is closely linked to certain diseases
If you feel something strange when you walk
Or there is an abnormality in the gait
Or even walk a thousand meters with great difficulty
It may indicate that the red light is lit up in good health
We need to pay attention to it
Follow the small circle together
Let's reveal the relationship between walking and health~
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These 6 abnormalities occur when walking
The blood vessel may be blocked
Guo Caixia is the chief physician of the Cardiovascular Center of Beijing Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University
When walking, if the following 6 signals appear, you must pay attention to them, it may be a health problem with your blood vessels.
Health Alerts:
1. When walking fast, chest tightness and chest pain occur;
2. Unexplained dizziness and headache when walking;
3. When walking, the heart feels a little painful;
4. When walking, one limb movement is unfavorable;
5. After walking for a few minutes, I feel weak in my legs and sore muscles;
6. There is a big difference in blood pressure between the two upper limbs.
Health Tips:
If one or more of the above symptoms appear, it indicates that there may be blood vessel occlusion or severe stenosis of blood vessels in different parts of the body, which needs to be paid attention to.
Secondly, if middle-aged and elderly people have frequent dizziness, balance disorders, and crooked walking to one side, they should also be alert to possible blood vessel blockage.
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Both gaits appear when walking
High risk of brain disease
Qiu Hancheng is the chief physician of the Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University
1. Scissor Step:
The gait of the scissor step is characterized by the toes facing inward, as if drawing circles when striding and the legs like a compass. When walking, the knees rub against each other, or even the legs are completely crossed.
This is because the patient's lower limbs have increased muscle tone, stiffness and adduction, and the feet are crossed inward, forming a scissor-like gait, which is more common in the sequelae of cerebral infarction.
Health Alerts:
Scissor steps are more common in patients with cerebrovascular disease, cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, or spinal cord injury, as well as hereditary spastic paraplegia, who often have motor dysfunction, such as weak leg strength.
The scissor step also suggests that there may have been a small infarction, and it is necessary to evaluate the vascular condition and actively prevent stroke.
For the elderly, if there is a change in limb muscle strength and/or muscle tone, especially a rapid change, scissor steps will also occur, and the occurrence of acute cerebrovascular disease needs to be alerted. It is recommended to visit a neurosurgeon or neurology department for a definitive diagnosis.
Health Tips:
Such patients can usually massage the stiff limbs, do passive activities, and use their hands to help move the knees, ankles and other joints to prevent muscle atrophy and joint stiffness.
2. Drunken Steps:
Drunken gait is a popular saying, and its scientific name is ataxia gait, which is manifested as walking without walking in a straight line, and walking staggeringly.
The appearance of drunken steps is mainly due to damage to the cerebellum for various reasons, which makes the patient's muscles tense or decreased and voluntary movements. Clinically, we need to distinguish the degree of rapid onset of symptoms, acute is common in cerebellar vascular disease or infectious disease, and subacute and rapid progression, we need to be suspicious of cerebellar tumors.
Health Alerts:
The occurrence of such gait is highly suspicious of cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, brain tumor, cerebellar lesions and other diseases, and has caused cerebellar damage and cerebellar dysfunction. Therefore, if you do not drink alcohol, but suddenly have a drunken gait, you should seek medical attention in time to check whether you have the above diseases. It is generally recommended to see an emergency, neurology, neurosurgery department, etc.
Health Tips:
Such patients should avoid falling and falling in their daily life, especially not engaging in high-altitude and climbing operations.
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It's hard to walk a thousand meters
High risk of fractures
Xu Hailin, Chief Physician of the Department of Trauma and Orthopedics, Peking University People's Hospital
An authoritative study that included 267,000 adults over the age of 45 roughly divided the participants into several categories, those who could not walk a kilometer, those who could walk a kilometer, and those who could walk more than a kilometer.
For people who struggle to walk a kilometer, it may indicate the following 3 diseases, and patients with these 3 diseases have a higher risk of fracture than healthy people.
Health Alerts:
1. Waist disease:
If there are some diseases in the lower back, such as lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, etc., it may compress the nerves, affect the function of the lower limbs, and cause symptoms such as intermittent claudication, resulting in tiredness after walking for a while.
2. Knee Disease:
If you have senile arthritis or traumatic arthritis in your knee, you may experience pain that prevents you from walking for long periods of time.
Over time, the muscles in all parts of the body, especially the thighs, will become weaker, and when the muscles cannot bear the weight of the limbs, the risk of falling while walking increases.
3. Osteoporosis:
One of the symptoms of osteoporosis is backache and leg pain, discomfort when walking, and fractures after falling.
Health Tips:
1. Protect the lumbar spine:
For example, when you are sitting, you can put a cushion behind your waist, and with support behind your waist, the pressure on your lumbar spine will become less to help protect your lumbar spine.
2. Walk in moderation:
There are many benefits to walking, but some people blindly pursue quantity, which may have adverse effects on the body. In general, it is best to walk no more than 10,000 steps a day.
3. Prevention of osteoporosis:
When we are 30~40 years old, we should pay attention to the prevention of osteoporosis, which can be started from exercise and diet.
Exercise reasonably
You can walk or run, and it is recommended to do "down-to-earth" exercises. In addition to this, you should also do some resistance exercises, you can try to combine aerobic exercise and resistance exercise, exercise for half an hour a day.
Eat more foods that are high in calcium
● Milk and milk products:
According to the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)", each person needs to consume 300 grams of liquid milk per day, and it is recommended to drink a glass of milk and a cup of yogurt every day, and the intake of liquid milk can easily reach more than 300 grams a day.
● Leafy greens:
It is recommended to eat enough 500 grams of vegetables per day.
● Soy products:
Such as tofu skin, dried tofu, tofu and other soybean products. Generally, the daily consumption of soybean products is 100~150 grams.
In addition to exercise and diet, you should also pay attention to sun exposure to help the conversion of vitamin D in the body.