 Hi, I'm Dr. Sunil Kini working as a concert and orthopedic surgeon at Manipal Hospital's Bangalore Do's and don'ts of arthritis the answer to this mainly depends on what condition we are dealing with if it is the most common osteoarthritis Then the do's would obviously be to keep yourself healthy and fit Keep your knees strong so that your muscles take more weight and load your joint less often Which leads to less wear. The do's also involve eating a healthy diet and living a healthy lifestyle The don'ts obviously is if you have osteoarthritis We ask patients not to squat sit cross-legged and do deep knee flexion sizes as they cause more wear And also don'ts is not to put much weight obesity, which is the most common factor for Failure of knees and wear which we often see Another condition such as rheumatoid arthritis which affects the young so I would like to reiterate That's very important that patients who have knee pain in the younger population without any injury should consult their orthopedic surgeon Or the rheumatologist because early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis or any of the inflammatory arthritis is very much treatable by medications and if you treat them at the right age They would go into remissions so that they don't go into an arthritis when it says matter of 10 to 20 years Other forms of arthritis such as crystal arthritis or gouty arthritis can also be treated by loading their uric acid level dietary modifications in these definitely help and also medications play a very important role in the treatment of crystal induced arthritis