July 3, Personal Post Arthritis

1) The actual tasks you completed: Researched exercising with arthritis.

The progress you made toward your desired outcome(s): Great, I gathered a lot of information on arthritis and exercise.

The lessons you learned: It is important to exercise when you have arthritis. Because it reduces pains in joints. You should do exercises that allow your joints to use their full range of motion. This will benefit a arthritic patient greatly. You should exercise if your joints are burning. This means that they are swollen and exercise will only cause more pain. There are obviously exercises that are better than others, things such as stretching exercises like yoga are very good, also water aerobics. It is good to build muscle mass. Water aerobics is a good way to start because of the ease of moving in a pool.