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Can I exercise with arthritis without making it worse?

A month ago I was diagnosed with arthritis, which at the moment affects my lower back and left knee. I've been given medication which as helped and in the last 3 weeks I've only had pain for a day or two, the rest of the time I've been fine.

I go to a kick boxing class (1 hour per week) and an aerobics class (45 mins per week). I'd like to increase this by doing an extra class each week, and would also like to start jogging again (so I can do Race for Life, a little quicker than I did last year!). I've lost almost a stone but I'm around 3 stone overweight.

My doctor says I should exercise as long as it is not uncomfortable, but my mom says I should give up all high impact exercise and do something like yoga. She says osteoarthritis means the bones are crumbling and by doing the type of exercise I am I'll be making the condition worse.

I enjoy what I'm doing now, and want to do more not less! I don't exercise if I have pain, but if I do it only lasts for a day or 2 so then I get back on with it. What do you think? Should I give up what I'm doing? Stick to my current classes? Or increase things a little?

I know what I want to do, just want to know I won't be causing any further damage.

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