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Examined Can wet weather cause joint pain?
If it gets cold and wet, sensitive people will hurt their joints. This is a folk wisdom. New studies call this idea into question.
The behavior changes
American researchers from the University of Washington studied weather data from 2011 to 2015 from 45 cities. Their result: Not the weather, but our behavior during the weather affects pain in the joints.
Does weather change cause joint pain or do we behave differently in changing weather? (Image: Robert Kneschke / Fotolia.com) More research in the rain?
So searches for joint pain increased with increasing temperatures, at over 20 degrees, they decreased again. Similarly, it was rainfall.
No connection between temperature and pain
The researchers found no direct relationship between outside temperature and pain. However, they suspect that when the weather is good, people are more active, overexert and hurt themselves, and search the Internet for information.
Is the study serious??
Marcus Schiltenwolf from the University of Heidelberg criticizes that the study shows only correlations, but no connection between cause and effect. This would require other factors such as the degree of fitness and the age of those who searched the Internet for information.
Cold and moisture triggers diseases?
Some illnesses seem to be connected with the weather by the choice of words as the common cold. But a cold is not caused by wet, cold weather, but is a viral infection.
Cold does not come from cold
However, if the immune system is weakened because we are not properly dressed, and the organism needs to work to keep the body on track, these viruses can more easily invade. But we "catch cold" in summer as well as in autumn or winter.
Joint pain Result of lack of exercise?
According to him, exercise only leads to joint pain if the affected person otherwise did not use their muscles sufficiently. Only a tenth of the people move enough. That should consider a study.
No context?
Schiltenwolf also sees no general relationship between weather and joint pain. So some people would not tolerate moisture, others no heat. Weather sensitivity is individual and can not be generalized. Overall, people have a tremendous ability to adapt to the environment.
Lack of training
It is undisputed that lack of exercise and obesity trigger joint pain, often in combination. In contrast, in addition to a balanced diet, exercise and exercise helps. In the meantime, however, it should be moderate in the case of severe obesity: long-distance running stresses the joints of obese people and leads to pain as a result of the stress. (Dr. Utz Anhalt)