Managing a healthy weight
People having excess body weight are at greater risk of developing knee pain. Carrying extra kilos of body fat makes the joints to do additional work to do. Losing extra weight helps to reduce long-term knee pain. The additional weight of the body and joints tends to increase inflammation in our body and the obese person is more likely to develop osteoarthritis and other knee problems. Eating healthy and losing the extra body weight will greatly help in protecting the knee joints and avoiding knee pain. [1]