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Throughout your life, your bones are always moving. Even when you are asleep you move around. Between the joints in your body are layers of protective material, called cartillage. This acts to protect the joints and bones from damage and to act as a lubricant to allow the two bones to move against each other easily.
However, as the bones move, and as we get older, the cartilage begins to wear away and eventually is worn through completly. This results in the two bones moving on each other and grinding, causing reduced movement and often soreness and pain. This is called osteoarthritis.
There are things you can do to try and slow the onset of Osteoarthritis. Oddly enough, one of them is to get regular exercise. While heavy exercise will cause the cartilage to wear quicker (as it did for me playing American Football), gentle exercise will help strengthen the muscles, allowing them to take more of the strain from the bones, and reducing the amount of pressure that the cartilage is put under.
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