Michael Torres

I’ve guided hundreds of patients through knee replacement recovery over my 14 years as a physical therapist, and I’ll tell you the same thing I tell every single one of them on day one: the surgery is the easy part….

Last Tuesday, I had three separate athletes in my clinic — a competitive CrossFitter, a recreational tennis player, and a high school soccer player — and all three had made the exact same fundamental mistake that led to their injuries….

About three years into my career, I had a 58-year-old patient named Margaret — a retired schoolteacher who came to me with bilateral knee pain so severe she had stopped walking her dog. She had already tried two rounds of…

Last Tuesday, a 43-year-old teacher sat across from me in my clinic and said something I have heard hundreds of times over my 14 years as a physical therapist: “My doctor ran tests, everything came back normal, but my joints…

About three years into my career, I started noticing something uncomfortable: I was developing morning stiffness in my hands. Nothing dramatic, but enough that I’d flex my fingers before getting out of bed and think, I understand my patients more…