Mobility
Movement Is the Medicine for Arthritis, Not Rest
Key Takeaways Movement is first-line care for knee and hip osteoarthritis, while rest tends to ease symptoms briefly and let the joint stiffen and weaken. Cutting back sets off a spiral of weaker muscles, more stiffness, a more sensitive pain system and added weight through the joint. Some discomfort during activity can be safe, and…
See MorePrehab for Joint Surgery: Why the Fittest Patients Recover Fastest
Key Takeaways Pre-surgery strength, fitness and movement are among the steadier predictors of how quickly function returns after joint replacement. Training before surgery builds reserve you draw down afterwards, so the low point in the first weeks is less debilitating. Leg strength, aerobic fitness, joint mobility and balance are the main capacities worth building, and…
See MoreThe Metabolic Side of Osteoarthritis: How Weight and Inflammation Affect Your Joints
Key Takeaways Osteoarthritis affects the whole joint and involves low-grade inflammation, so it is more than cartilage wearing down under load. Body fat is active tissue that releases inflammatory signals, which helps explain why osteoarthritis also appears in joints that carry no weight. Losing around 10% of body weight may meaningfully reduce knee pain and…
See MoreWhy Does My Shoulder Hurt? Common Causes by Age and Activity
Key Takeaways Shoulder pain is common, and why your shoulder hurts often shifts with age, from injury and instability when young to cuff wear, frozen shoulder and osteoarthritis from the 40s on. How you load the shoulder matters too, with overhead sport, desk posture, heavy lifting and falls each producing their own pattern of pain.…
See MoreWhat is a Baker’s Cyst? How its diagnosed and treated.
Every other day at MTP Health patients present with concerns about being diagnosed with a Baker’s cyst or Popliteal cyst. Understandably, finding out you have a “cyst” in your knee sounds bad. But the good news is they really are harmless. Without a doubt they can be annoying and a little uncomfortable at times but…
See MoreMovement is medicine for knee pain
Any pain in our bodies can make us feel like stopping movements that hurt. It seems logical to stop doing something that hurts but this isn’t always the answer, particularly for knee pain. This may sound counterintuitive but to understand that saying ‘movement is medicine’, we need to start with what movement does for our…
See MoreImproving Your Mobility 101 [All About CARs]
“Nothing Happens Until Something Moves” – Albert Einstein Have you ever wondered what you need to be doing each and every day to improve your mobility and flexibility? Do you think working on your mobility is something you should do more of? Would you like to have a simple set of exercises that can go…
See MoreAnatomical Breakdown [Runners Mobility Routine]
This routine is a fantastic full-body routine that can be done before or after a run. It is designed to release the tight spots that most commonly limit runners, while also strengthening key areas that are often neglected. To understand the general theory behind these exercises we recommend watching this video, which we created…
See MoreThe Science Behind how Practice Literally Makes Perfect [Mobility, Performance & Your Brain]
“Nothing is impossible” Chances are, if you watched the video above, you simply wrote off what you just witnessed as some kind of anomaly. A ‘Freak of Nature’ if you will. You probably saw what he was able to do with his feet, then took a glance of curiosity down toward your shoe covered appendages.…
See MoreThis is TRUE Athletic Performance: Why the Best Athlete is Never the Strongest in the Gym
True performance = [The biomechanics of improved mobility (Greater Range of motion & control)] X [Strength/Power (Force able to be applied)] Equations truly are a beautiful thing. They represent the most simple way to describe a phenomenon with a high level of accuracy. The True Performance equation There are a number of factors that…
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