{"id":3872,"date":"2024-08-26T15:18:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T12:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T12:18:34","slug":"correlation-between-hemorrhoids-and-sport-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/en\/correlation-between-hemorrhoids-and-sport-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Correlation between Hemorrhoids and sport activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Managing hemorrhoids can be achieved through muscle strengthening, improvement of the blood circulation and a gradual increase of the muscle tone (exercise).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, sports, such as cycling, horse-riding, mountaineering, weightlifting, baseball, golf and squatting worsen the hemorrhoids. The increased blood pressure at the anorectal area is the main reason for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other factors that have been implicated in terms of developing and worsening hemorrhoids are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>sedentary life (inactivation of abdominal muscles, weakening of the venous wall of veins near the anus and prolonged sitting)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>obesity (increased pressure in the anal area)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>weightlifting,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>chronic cough (or intense laughter and even sneezing sometimes!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>various irritants (detergents, fragrances and soap),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>advanced age (weakening of the muscle tone, the venous walls and the valves of the veins).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing hemorrhoids can be achieved through muscle strengthening, improvement of the blood circulation and a gradual increase of the muscle &#8230; <a title=\"Correlation between Hemorrhoids and sport activities\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/en\/correlation-between-hemorrhoids-and-sport-activities\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Correlation between Hemorrhoids and sport activities\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hemorrhoids","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proctology.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}