If you’re searching for a complete guide to joint health, you’ve landed in the right place. I’ve spent over 15 years working as a physical therapist and sports medicine writer, treating everyone from 16-year-old high school athletes to 78-year-old grandparents who just want to walk without pain. In that time, I’ve seen one pattern repeat … Read more
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…
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…
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…
