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How to escape joint pain
Stress your joints strategically.
The key is to choose the right challenge for your current abilities.
It’s not just your muscles that get stronger with stress.
Active people’s tendons, ligaments, and joint surfaces are more resilient.
Movement is the best medicine for our joints.
Last week, one of my foot pain clients said:
“My foot pain is improving but I tried returning to my previous workout routine and still had pain”
My reply laid out a plan to progressively return to pain-free exercise. We considered things like the amount of resistance with strength-building exercises, the length of the activity, and how frequently to take rest breaks.
The reason joint pain lingers is that you haven’t given your body a chance to heal.
Build strength and use your symptoms for feedback.
The key to both avoiding and escaping joint pain is movement.
If you’re currently in pain this can be a challenge.
Which is why Physical Therapists are in such high demand.
Because when it seems like every exercise makes it hurt worse having someone to tell you exactly what to do is a life-saver.
It’s hard to recover and overcome chronic joint pain.
But it’s easy to avoid it altogether if you adopt an active lifestyle:
-Run
-Walk daily
-Sit on the ground
-Do the exercise you enjoy
-Resistance training to strengthen your weaknesses
Daily movement is a must.
Hope this helps,
Tyler Van Acker, Doctor of Physical Therapy
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