Official edition of EBS's popular health program "Your Precious Body"

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This book is a compilation of carefully selected episodes related to the musculoskeletal system from EBS's popular health program, "Your Precious Body."
"Your Precious Body: Musculoskeletal System" identifies chronic joint pain in the shoulders, neck, knees, lower back, pelvis, and feet, along with the associated musculoskeletal diseases, and suggests solutions to eliminate pain simply through lifestyle changes such as dietary and exercise habits.
We introduce a method to accurately diagnose at home diseases that anyone would have thought about in their daily lives, such as frozen shoulder, pelvic imbalance, cervical disc, and scoliosis, and suggest exercise methods to relieve pain accordingly.
If you follow the two-week solution introduced in the book, you will naturally feel changes in your body.
This two-week home care prescription, prescribed by Korea's top experts comprised of domestic doctors, exercise specialists, and nutritionists, will become the primary care doctor for anyone concerned about bone health.

If you have difficulty washing your hair and it is accompanied by severe pain, especially if the pain gets worse at night, it is likely frozen shoulder.
Additionally, frozen shoulder is characterized by difficulty with both passive and active movements.
Passive exercise involves having someone help you lift your arm.
Conversely, active movement is raising your arms on your own.
If there is no significant change in the range of motion when you lift your arm by yourself or when someone helps you lift your arm, it is likely frozen shoulder.

--- From "Chapter 1, Shoulder Pain That Crushes Life"

The worst postures for pelvic pain are those that cause asymmetry.
It is not good to use only one side of your body, such as sitting slantedly on a chair, crossing your legs, or standing with one leg crossed.
One more thing, no matter how good your posture is, it is not good to stay in the same posture for a long time.

--- From "Chapter 2: Signs of the Body Collapsing, Pelvic Pain"

There is a very easy way to check the symmetry of your body.
Close your eyes and walk as usual.
If you can't walk in a straight direction and lean to one side, it means there is an imbalance in your body.
If you don't have scoliosis, you can walk straight with your eyes closed.
Minju, who has moderate scoliosis, was found to be walking with an increasingly tilted stance to one side.

--- From “Chapter 3 Scoliosis, How Much Degree Is Your Spine?”

Osteoporosis rarely has symptoms.
Still, there are cases where you should be suspicious.
It is normal for everyone to lose some height as they age, but if you lose 4-5cm of height suddenly without any particular injury, you should suspect osteoporosis.
Also, if you experience a fracture due to a minor impact in your daily life, it is a good idea to check whether there is a problem with your bone density.

--- From "Chapter 4: Healthy Bones with Holes, Osteoporosis is a Medicine of Habits"

The knee joint serves to absorb and distribute our body weight.
So it has a big impact when you gain weight.
For every 1 kg of weight gain, the pressure on the knee joint increases by approximately 4 kg.
When climbing stairs, the pressure increases by 5 to 10 times the increased body weight, and when squatting, it increases by 10 to 12 times.

--- From "Chapter 5: How to Protect Your Knees Before Surgery"

He also emphasizes the need to correct the habit of cracking joints and making noises.
The sound is caused by bone rubbing against bone or by the friction of structures around the bone.
However, the longer the friction continues, the worse it is for the joints.
Just as your finger joints become thicker when you stretch and bend them too much, your lower back is also a joint, so if you continue to do so, it can lead to stenosis.

--- From "Chapter 6: Escape from the Painful Back Pain"

The more your head moves forward and the more you bend it, the greater the load on your cervical spine.
The average adult's head weighs about 4-5 kg, which is almost as heavy as a bowling ball.
It is known that just looking at or operating a smartphone while bending your head at an angle of about 40 degrees places about 20 kg of weight on the cervical spine.
--- From "Chapter 7: The Miracle of 2 Weeks to Prevent Cervical Disc Herniation"

Sarcopenia is a serious disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) officially recognized sarcopenia as a disease in 2017, and in 2021, South Korea also officially assigned it a disease code.
Sarcopenia is a disease in which skeletal muscle strength and muscle mass decrease, resulting in a decline in physical function and quality of life.

--- From "Chapter 8: Sarcopenia, Not Aging, But a Disease"

However, most people who experience tolerable foot pain after exercise assume it is due to lack of exercise or weight gain and end up working out even harder.
There are many people who think that they can overcome pain through exercise.
If you overuse your feet in this inflamed condition, the condition will not be cured and will only get worse.

--- From "Chapter 9: Escape from Foot Pain, a Tingling Pain Every Time You Walk"