Prevention and treatment of knee arthritis

   As Japanese life styles have westernized, more people have
become troubled with pains in the knees.
   Since cartilage in the knee joints has no blood and lymph
vessels, the supply of nourishment and the ejection of waste are
done by the shifts of synovia according to the changes in pressure
through the bending and stretching movement. In order to shift
synovia, it is necessary to bend knees deeply, although there is
some difference among individuals.
  Westernized life styles give less and less
opportunity of bending and streching the
knees, such as sitting on a floor in Japanese
fashion, using a lavatory in Japanese style,
wiping a floor with a cloth, and so forth.
A number of people therefore tend to have
low metabolic rates and then troubles in the
knee joints.
  In order to prevent and treat the
softening in patellae, it is not good for you to
rest just quietly. It is rather effective, after
the pain is relieved by "Tubo" treatment, to
sit with your knees bent for about 5 minutes at a time and to bend
and stretch several times a day as long as you can bear the pain.
(* You have to rest quietly if you have pain caused by troubles in a
ligament or in a tendon sheath.)
 
   Pinch the soft place at the inside part of your knee and select
several points with the strongest pain.
   Select the point at the backside of your knee that has a pain
in the inside, if you press, with your knee slightly bent.
   Select points around the kneecap.