It's not just cold weather that can make everything hurt. Did you know that humidity can impact things too! This heat and humidity is relentless! It's certainly energy zapping!
But it can really play havoc on your skin and in turn, on muscles and joints. It can come as a surprise as we expect cold weather to get into the bones and for stiffness to set in but less so in hot and humid weather, however the humidity can affect our muscles and joints for many reasons.
There's the fact that it feels so hot and sticky that we tend to be less active and so less movement occurs. There's the link between the barometric pressure (think people who get headachy before a storm) and that humid weather tends to fluctuate between dry and about to rain and so there are fluctuations in the pressure which can cause muscles, joints and tendons to contract and subtract leading to pain in your weaker and more vulnerable issue prone areas.
Some researchers say that temperature and humidity can affect the fluid which fills our joints resulting in inflammation and pain. This is where dehydration plays a role as we tend to become more dehydrated in humid weather, which can affect the level of fluid around the joints. I would imagine that the heat and humidity can often provide an inflammatory response in the body and the humidity in some ways is like the damp weather without the cold and as has been noted in people, damp and cold is worse on the body than dry and cold.
There are some things we can do but it's also hard to do them, such as staying hydrated despite losing plenty of fluid through the heat and stay indoors and in cooler space....not always easy to do....but at least now we know that when the body feels more achy, humidity definitely plays a role!
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