Muscle, Tissue & Joint Care

Strong bones, muscles, and joints are essential for maintaining painful movement.  

Joints are the connections between two joints.  Pretty much every movement made by your body involves a joint and the surrounding structures.  If there were no joints, a body would just be a chunk of bones and tissue, unable to walk, eat, or even move.  

Proper care of your joints involves keeping the bones, ligaments, and muscles stable and strong.  Maintaining a healthy weight is the best treatment for joints, especially the back, knees, and hips which are the weight-bearing joints.  These joints support some or all of your body weight.  Extra weight will cause these joints to wear down, causing pain and flexibility problems.  For every extra pound of weight, the knees endure four times more stress.  Weight loss is crucial to easing chronic joint pain.  

Exercise not only helps maintain a healthy weight and increase the heart rate but also helps to reduce joint swelling.  Even though moving the joints would sound painful, movement actually helps keep joints from stiffening up.  People with desk jobs and who spend the majority of their day sitting are at high risk of joint pain.  

Good muscle strength, eating right, exercise, and a healthy weight is the best formula for easing joint pain or avoiding it altogether.  Call Dr. Andreassen today to discuss your joint pain.