Maintaining optimum joint health is important to aid mobility, as well as ensuring you lead a healthy, happy and active lifestyle.

Reduced mobility can have a direct impact on everyday life from walking to the shops, being able to get up and down stairs and even getting a good nights sleep.  Muscles can take a lot of stress throughout the day and these pressures can increase with an active lifestyle and age.

Common signs that you may need joint support can include:

• You experience joint pain
• Your joints may be tender to touch
• It can take you a while to get up and moving
• Your joints click, crack or grate when you move
• You have a reduce range of movement, your joints are not very flexible
• You’re overweight
• You may participate in high impact exercise.

To further help to maintain optimum joint health, there are also some positive things that you can do, which include:

Keep moving

This is an important factor for healthy joints. Even if you can’t do much, just taking short walks or walking up steps rather than escalators can make a difference.

Stretch it out

Simple stretches can help to improve flexibility and ease joint pain. Stretching can particularly benefit arthritis suffers by lubricating joints and enhancing and maintaining a range of motion.

Drink water

This is important due to cartilage being lubricated by a liquid known as synovial fluid, and our cartilage is approximately 60% water.

Lose weight

Maintaining a healthy weight can be key to reduce stress on your joints. Losing weight can take a lot of pressure of weight bearing joints such as, knees, hips and your back.

Build muscle

Muscles can take a lot of the strain off your joints to help to support your body weight. Weight training exercises can help to build muscles and help to keep your muscles surrounding ligaments strong.

Be aware of your posture

Slouching may put extra pressure on joints. If you are sat down all day, try to take a short walk or break from sitting every hour. Posture is also important when lifting and carrying.

Diet

Eating a healthy balanced diet will not only help with weight loss but can also maintain joint health. Eat plenty of oily fish, such as Salmon or Mackerel, which can offer anti-inflammatory benefits.

Natural supplement

Utilise Nutrabiotics joint supplement, which works as a natural anti-inflammatory and works as an effective natural pain management to help ease discomfort. It also has the benefits of being fast acting and does not have the negative side effects associated with drugs.