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A COMMON COMPLAINT – and how to fix it!
Many of my patients complain of pain in their knees when they stand up from a sitting position. It’s a COMMON COMPLAINT! It’s often one of the earliest signs of arthritis, and it’s certainly a reminder that we’re getting old! When I was a young woman, I could go from lotus position to a sprint, with no balking from my knees. Now, just to get up to go to the bathroom, after sitting through a rerun of Walking Dead, is a stark reminder of my age. When you sit for a while, your knee might start to shift a little as you relax into that position and the different relationship…
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1010 PARK PLACE: HOW TO MAKE PAINFUL KNEES FEEL BETTER
“OUR AGED KNEES WOULD LIKE NOTHING BETTER THAN FOR US TO GET IN THE FETAL POSITION AND STAY THERE. “ MY 1010 PARK PLACE POST
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MENISCUS TEARS AFTER FORTY…a treatise
I could talk generally about meniscus tears, but not all meniscus tears are created equal. There are meniscus tears and then there are degenerative meniscus tears, and it’s the latter I’m talking about now. And the two types of meniscus tears are almost entirely different entities. DEFINITION OF MENISCUS TEARS But for starters, let’s just define the two types of tears, and to do this, it’s easiest to define acute meniscus tears and then just about everything else is degenerative. That way it will be easier for you to figure out which kind you have. Just about any meniscus tear in a person under forty who injures their knee,…
