Sore joints!!!!! Help!!!

[Kab2]

I am 43 years old and currently doing sl 5x5 and my joints are sore and feel almost bruised. Muscle soreness is no problem but knees, elbows and wrist are sore and make me weak because of the soreness. any suggestions?? I need a cure!!!!!

[Jdog1645]

Take some Glucosamine......you can find it at Walgreens, Walmart etc etc. Its pretty cheap. I take it everyday.


Glucosamine is marketed to support the structure and function of joints.

[Kab2]

Take some Glucosamine......you can find it at Walgreens, Walmart etc etc. Its pretty cheap. I take it everyday.


Glucosamine is marketed to support the structure and function of joints.

thanks

[ovfdfireman]

Take some Glucosamine......you can find it at Walgreens, Walmart etc etc. Its pretty cheap. I take it everyday.


Glucosamine is marketed to support the structure and function of joints.

Definitely ^^^^^ fish oils help too and are a must for general health IMO

[cgc]

Fish oil and Animal Flex are life savers for me...

[soonerman4life]

Fish oil and Animal Flex are life savers for me...

My shoulder joints were bothring me. I have always supplemented with fish oil but when I switched my multivitamin to Orange Triad it made the world of difference. No more shoulder discomfort. Fish oil + Orange Triad = no more pain.

[Rondori]

Recent studies on glucosamine chondroitin found it no more effective than a placebo. When my dog had arthritis the vet recommended it and we saw no difference after three months. But within a week of taking collagen, he was running up and down stairs. Try Super Collagen, which is hydrolized.

[gesres]

I am 43 years old and currently doing sl 5x5 and my joints are sore and feel almost bruised. Muscle soreness is no problem but knees, elbows and wrist are sore and make me weak because of the soreness. any suggestions?? I need a cure!!!!!

I'm 49 and the most effective recommendation is to become 15 years younger. If you can't manage that, I've found that, first, it helps to be very diligent about warm ups, gradually escalating to your work set weights. Secondly, try to ease into your pushes and pulls, don't "shove" or "yank". Thirdly, try to let your muscles carry the stresses, rather than your joints.

As for supplements, the vast majority (possibly 100%) are no better than placebos. If you start taking everything that someone recommends, you'll end up with a medicine cabinet full of garbage. I do take fish oil, but that's something that's well documented in the medical literature to promote cardiovascular health, even if it's worthless for body aches and pains, so I figured that's a no-lose proposition. Ice helps sometimes, as does ibuprofen.

[Corbi]

As for supplements, the vast majority (possibly 100%) are no better than placebos. If you start taking everything that someone recommends, you'll end up with a medicine cabinet full of garbage. I do take fish oil, but that's something that's well documented in the medical literature to promote cardiovascular health, even if it's worthless for body aches and pains, so I figured that's a no-lose proposition. Ice helps sometimes, as does ibuprofen.

I believe this as well, have done the fish oil deal, been there and done that with the glucosamine, have taken the hydrolyzed collagen for 4 months, etc and none of them did anything that I could noticebly tell. Sometimes I think it's just good marketing and the placebo effect that makes these things work at times. Believe in it hard enough or wish for it and you actually start believeing the stuff is working.

[DubfromGA]

Fish oil and Animal Flex are life savers for me...

Agreed.

I will continue with these. Also running cissus now for tweeked shoulder.

[Brackneyc]

As for supplements, the vast majority (possibly 100%) are no better than placebos.

If the supplement makes you "feel" better, or try harder, then placebo or not, it is working.

[gesres]

If the supplement makes you "feel" better, or try harder, then placebo or not, it is working.

If the problem is minor or there is no demonstrably effective treatment available, then there is probably no harm in searching for the placebo effect, but it does require that you put yourself into a perpetually gullible state of mind.

For more serious conditions, "feeling" better isn't always the measure of effectiveness; people die on a regular basis because they try to treat conditions like cancer with fake cures like homeopathy or faith healing. No doubt these things make some people "feel" better in the short term, but they still die, because these superstitions have no therapeutic effect.