✓ Written & medically reviewed by Dr. Molly McDonald, PT, DPT, LMT · Updated December 2, 2023
If those suggestions did not sit well with you then your in the right place. Hi, I’m Dr. Molly, I help active adults prevent and recover from injuries, stay fit and healthy to keep them doing their favorite activities without medication or surgery.
There are many things that can cause arthritis in your joint but in this video I want to take about how your joints get nutrition and how moving more not less is the answer.
This magical nutrition providing lubrication is pushed and pulled out of your joints with the cycle of resting and active movement.
In short if you rest a joint more than you move a joint, you are limiting the amount of nutrition and lubrication that joint is getting.
This is where gentle stretching and strengthening exercises can because a key component of fighting off the pains associated with arthritis. Many people can start either stretching at home, start a yoga or pilates class and see a dramatic reduction in pain and movement restrictions.
If you have tried stretching and strengthening without success that does not mean you are doomed to not being able to run or dance or to do your favorite activity. You simply need a person to physical assess your joint with a hands on assessment, a full body movement assessment in order to determine how to reduce the stress on your joint with the sole goal to keep you doing your favorite activities.
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Owner & Physical Therapist, Your Goals Physical Therapy — Cypress, TX
Molly helps active adults end nagging aches and pain and get back to the activities they love — without medication, injections, or surgery. She treats the root cause, not just the symptom, because you shouldn’t be told you can’t do something; you should be shown how.
