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You should go to the doctor if you have knee problems that early
I think the issue is that if you had injuries at younger age, those injuries become inflamed again as you become older. There are athletes who said their injuries become inflamed again when they hit 30’s. There are also soldiers who passed away after their old wounds became a problem again at old age. The body just can’t keep up repairing itself anymore.
However, old injuries isn’t just the only explanation. If one have hardly been sporty or did labour intensive jobs at younger age and feeling pain on the knees, it could be genetics. If not, then it is something entirely within the person’s control: overweight. I have friends who gained weight tremendously over the years even though we are only in our early 30’s. One of my friends could hardly walk for long at a pretty short distance. I reckon it is because they work from home and don’t do any exercise (some of them became too jaded and insecure over the years to go to gym), while I and my other friend work on-site so we have more physically demanding jobs and we still do exercise.
I’m a remote worker and it’s true you need to make time for physical activity every day or you’ll start to feel badly quite quickly.
The good news is you’ve hypotheticaly got more time in the day to do that. Like I can can can lift some weights and go jogging in the time I used to spend coming and going to work.
I think bones also scale up if you are overweight at a young age. My knee bone is almost twice the size of my buddy’s despite being close to the same height. I bet if he’d weigh the same as me those knees would be in trouble. Mine are doing fine tho.
Or use them every now and then.
Far better for your knees to go than your back. One can be replaced, the other you just get to live with.
46 here, knees are fine, digestive system on the other hand…
just a reminder that most people bodies do not degrade. they just stop using them as much as they did when they were younger. the human body is surprisingly resilient to breaking down with regular upkeep. Motion is lotion
Posted by someone who has not hit 30 yet.
Nah bro, I’m past the big 3-0. My knees are still good (though I’ve got plenty of other aches and pains to make me feel ancient), but I’ve got friends already complaining. We’re all getting old and decrepit. Big RIP to youth 😔
I stood up from the toilet once and my knee popped and kind of hurt, now every once in a while my knee hurts if I stand up too straight
I’m 30 and my body feels better than when I was 20. Looking after myself alot better now.
I’m in the same boat. I started to turn things around in my late 20s with regular exercise, and my knees (and back) feel better at 31 than they did at 25.
Looking after myself alot better now.
My knees and I have a love/hate relationship. They loved me for about 20 years and I hated on them so much that they no longer work
Turned thirty, and all my childhood injuries came back. My ankle keeps me up at night. Getting old sucks.
37 here, my knees are great. Sprained my ankle back for the very first time back in November in my kickboxing class and I’m starting to fear I’ve done permanent damage.
It gets worse. Take care of your body
If they’re in a kickboxing class it sounds like they are.
Ehhhhh
Damage from being kicked is far less damaging than damage from a sedentary lifestyle
maybe, if you get kicked in the head a couple times it’s potentially far worse, and in all cases it’s far greater than most other kinds of exercise. do kickboxing if you want to, I’m not trying to knock anyone’s interest, and life is too short to avoid things you love for fear of injury, but if it’s actually about health you wanna do low impact cardio and careful, controlled resistance training
The sprained ankle wasn’t from being kicked. They have a “light sparring” class which I haven’t done yet. I’ve been kickboxing for about 9 months, we’re either hitting a bag or doing partner work where one person is using mitts or paddles which the other person strikes in a predetermined combo. I got the mouth guard and the shin guards, hoping to try it out in the next couple of weeks.
The sprained ankle was from doing a switch kick in the air and falling on my ass. The ankle that was supporting my weight when I fell was the one that got sprained.
One of my goals in life is to never get kicked in the head. Maybe going to kickboxing isn’t a good idea.
You can do some sport. That helps. At least at 30.
I’d say workout, yoga, lift heavy thing.
Sports only if you actually enjoy them. Most people I know heavily into sports get injured and some of injuries do not heal back to 100% ever.
This here! You want “low impact” activity that keeps the supporting muscles strong
+1 for yoga. Stretching is just as important, but so many people completely neglect it
Stretching every day even if I haven’t done a workout has really rehabilitated my 40s.
Aye only 5 younger than 40, but my doctor tutting I couldn’t touch my toes anymore got me into yoga lol.
Until you sport too much and get an injury, and then it’s just a chain reaction of things breaking down because you can’t exercise them like you used to.
Yeah it’s a terrible feeling giving up a sport bc it’s too hard on ya. Like I really love Judo but I just can’t throw myself at the floor repeatedly any more. But I might be able to do Aikido or low-contact Karate (or just strength training which is what I chose). The trick is knowing when to move on, and it’s a tough decision.
Aikido will not over extend your joints, if you have trouble with even safe falls I can’t imagine the instructor would require you to do them.
I’m 50. If a terrorist put a gun to my head and ordered me to get on my knees, my head would end up blown off.
Do you guys like, not walk? I’m not exactly skinny and mine are fine close to 40.
Mine feel better with 40 then 10 years ago. They weren’t bad per se, but skateboarding isn’t exactly great for the knees. But apparently still bettr than stitting around and complaining
Start running, it will strengthen the muscles around your knees and protect them. It also brings a million other health benefits.
Just don’t do it wrong though, because then you will ruin everything.
Yes, it’s recommended to start slow and get fitting running shoes
There’s a sweet spot. Go too easy and they get screwed up and go too hard and they screw up.
But it’s true that being reasonably active helps a ton. Someone I know who complained of joint pain as they retired claims it went away as his leisure time caused him to walk all over the place, and now he’s 70 with no joint pain. Closest he got was when we spent two hours in a crawlspace working on some frozen pipes and complained that his back hurt a bit and wondered if it was because he was old. No, even the 20 year old hurt after waddling around hunched over in freezing temperatures for a couple of hours.
Great to hear that being active still strengthens your body when being older. That’s one of my biggest motivations: To be physically healthy and strong when I’m old.
Running is about the worst thing you can do to your knees.
Doesn’t seem to be strictly true, but I do think it’s complicated. Running is awful for your knees if they’re injured or you have some sort of congenital skeletal issue. If you’re just sedentary, it’s awful for your knees if you do too much too soon.
Otherwise it seems to strengthen them. I will grant that it’s pretty hard to truly run easy enough and build up slowly enough. Takes patience and some trial and error in my experience. I skateboarded through my teens and 20s and had all sorts of nagging pains that have gone away completely after a couple years of consistent running, as an anecdote.
https://longevity.stanford.edu/lifestyle/2023/08/29/is-running-bad-for-your-knees-research-says-no/
If done correctly, it will not have a negative impact on the joints. Dampened running shoes and starting really slow are important. Movement will keep your knees healthy. The strengthened muscles will help when you lift heavy weights. Running is also one of the best ways to loose weight, which will reduce pressure on the knees in return.
Of course there are exceptions when running isn’t a great idea, like high obesity, chronic pain or injuries.
If running isn’t your thing, biking or swimming could be nice alternatives.
Currently in a waiting room because my knees stopped kneeing. And I’m younger than 35.
Oh hey, it’s actually my 30th birthday today. I feel this.
It’s coming for me in a couple months. I was out dancing Friday night, and then did some disc golf wand walking all over town yesterday and my legs are absolutely killing me today
I got a little heavier with beer and tried running again and my knee hates it. Gotta start doing other things that’s not cardio to get my knee back up to shape so I can get back in shape!
Happy B-day!
Happy birthday 🎂
