• May 7, 2024

Run It's one of the exercises ideal for lose weight , stay healthy and for tone up and strengthen your muscles . It even helps reduce the physical and psychological problems of the old age up to 50%, say researchers from Stanford University Medical Center of the United States .

Although it is a Excellent option before the recommendations to have a physical activity daily, it is important to know that this sport also has consequences unpleasant for you Health .

Its abuse can cause injuries and damage to joints In addition, they are not always met with physical characteristics and anatomical to practice it, he says Carlos A. Garza Moreno Traumatologist orthopedist from Monterrey, Nuevo León .

Be careful not to take a bad step when running!

Although this is one of the sports more complete, we give you Five effects on your body of why it is harmful to run .

1. Dental problems. Recently, German researchers they found the frequency of problems of cavities Y dental wear between the athletes.

The high consumption of carbohydrates , energy drinks and bars during training can lower the pH of the teeth, which causes dental erosion Y cavities , it states Cornelia Frese , author of the research published in Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports .

Another explanation is that runners breathe by mouth during the exercise , this causes lower production of saliva which helps control infections oral and cavities .

2. Muscle contractures. When you do not make exercises of heating before you start running you provoke a overexertion that ends up unleashing a contracture in your device skeletal muscle , says the orthopedist Carlos Garza .

3. Cramps. The muscular fatigue by dehydration and lack of sodium Y potassium When sweating they generate cramps that are a contraction of the muscles .

4. Knee pain. The impact on knees is not always so aggressive, except when the exercise It is very repetitive and runs on hard surfaces, since it generates a overload .

The joints , and specifically the cartilage articulate, they begin to suffer and can degenerate and leave wearing progressively, "he says Daniel Martínez Silván, physiotherapist of the Spanish Society of Traumatology in Sports .

5. Ampoules Julián Casanova, physiotherapist of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation , affirms that around 64% of the runners have suffered, at least once, from blisters In the feet.

This condition is normal because the hot , lack of perspiration , skin sensitive, as well as having long-standing tennis courts, favor their appearance. To counteract it, it is necessary to identify the cause to take the appropriate measures.

To these five injuries "not pleasant" that happen to run , the rupture of the ligaments of the knees and tendon of Achilles, with sequels from mild to those that need to undergo an operation.

Likewise, who they run in excess also suffer from problems in ligaments, sprains, buried nails, stress fractures, bursitis , as well as tibial periostitis, jumper's knee (inflammation of the patellar tendon).

Also, you can start gradually , First walk one hour a day, then it starts at jogging gently one minute for every 10 of walking, then two, three and so on, suggests the physiotherapist Martínez Silván .

If you want to practice this activity, it is important Consult to a health professional who will give you recommendations special

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