Being told you have arthritis — whether in your hip, your knee, your shoulder, your hands, or your spine — often comes with an implicit message: this is what aging feels like, manage your expectations, and limit the things that aggravate it. For people who have built their lives around staying active, that message is painful to hear, and, in many cases, incomplete.
Arthritis describes a change in the joint. It does not determine what you can do with it. The research is consistent: movement is medicine for arthritic joints. Strength training reduces pain and slows progression. Mobility work keeps the joint functional. The people who maintain activity do better, over time, than the people who protect themselves into stillness.
What that requires is knowing how to load the joint appropriately — how much, in what direction, through what range — and building the surrounding strength and mobility that reduce the demand on the joint itself. That is not something a generic exercise program can do reliably. It is something that requires a clinician who can assess your specific joint, your specific movement patterns, and your specific goals.
Jamie works with patients managing joint pain and arthritis to reduce pain, restore function, and build the resilience that lets them keep doing the things that matter. The goal is not to protect the joint by doing less. It is to build a body that can do more — safely, sustainably, and for a long time to come.
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