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In this video, I'm going to show you 13 powerful
tips to avoid knee replacement surgery.
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If you have a bone on bone knee joints, be
sure to watch the whole video to catch every
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single tip, because there's probably two or
three tips that you can do right now.
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And the rest of the tips you should take notes
on and you can begin to do them real soon
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as well.
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So let's get right to it.
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Tip number one, stop walking for exercise,
most healthcare professionals recommend walking
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for knee joint arthritis.
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And I disagree with this.
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The reason is because if you have a muscle
imbalance, that's putting too much pressure
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in your knee joint and that muscle imbalance
is not fixed first, then when you go to walk,
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you're going to be using your muscles in an
imbalanced way, which is going to create too
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much pressure because of the way that you're
using your muscles during a walking.
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This is why some people with knee arthritis
get more swollen, the more time they're on
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their feet, they get their knee just gets
more inflamed and bothered with walking.
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So you don't need to force your way through
walking, you actually should stop walking,
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if this is happening to you.
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Tip number two is to begin using a cane or
a walker when you do have to walk for many
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people suffering with knee joint arthritis,
that putting too much pressure on the knee
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joint.
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And using something like this a cane or a
walker can take tremendous amount of pressure
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off the knee joints without having to fix
the muscle imbalance just yet.
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A cane like this when walking can take from
20 to 10% off of your body weight depending
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on how much you lean on it when you walk.
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And using a walker like this one can take
50% off of your body weight or more when walking
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so that you're not irritating your knee joints,
when you do have to walk.
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Using a walker like this one or a cane like
this one is the quickest way to take pressure
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off your knee joint.
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But many people don't want to use these devices
because they'll feel old using them or they're
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afraid of what other people would think if
they begin to use a cane or a walker.
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But I say to those people come on, if it helps
you avoid a near replacement surgery, you've
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got to start doing it.
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Who cares what other people think or how you're
going to look, you don't want to have to have
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a knee replacement surgery by just putting
extra pressure on your knee joint, take that
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pressure off, get a cane, get a walker and
start relieving the pressure on your knee
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joint.
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And as long as you're getting stronger in
the right muscles to fix your imbalances,
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you should be able to wean yourself off a
cane and wean yourself off a walker and get
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back to walking normally, again, that just
a side note, this Walker is an upright Walker
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where you rest your elbows, there are other
versions of walkers where you grab them with
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your hands, you don't rest your elbows, there's
all different kinds of walkers and canes out
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there.
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Tip number three is to place little importance
on your X ray or your MRI.
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Now if you've been told you have bone on bone
knee joint arthritis, you probably had an
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x ray, possibly an MRI or a CT scan, but likely
an x ray.
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And the doctor showed you your X ray and said,
Here's where your knee joint is bone on bone.
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Look, there should be space right here between
the bones.
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That's the joint space, it's decreased on
this side.
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And they may even have done your other side.
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And it showed the same thing.
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Or maybe it's a little bit better.
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What you have to realize is an x ray, a CT
scan and MRI are just pictures of the inside
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of your body.
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Think of pictures like you would take a picture
with your phone or with your camera, you might
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be making a funny face or maybe you got caught
without your makeup on or whatever it is true
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though how you ever you fix yourself up in
the day.
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And it wasn't the greatest look of you or
it wasn't the best angle of yourself just
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like you might get sick.
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You don't want to have pictures taken of you
when you're sick.
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Because that's not your best presentation.
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Your knee joint might not have been x rayed
in the best angle it may have.
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It may be a little bit sick right now.
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But you can make it better.
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What you see in your X ray MRI or a CT scan
is hardly ever permanent.
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And it's very likely that your knee joint
has the ability the potential to improve from
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its current situation.
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As long as you do the right things for it,
you can probably improve enough to avoid having
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a knee replacement surgery.
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So don't worry about your X ray or MRI right
now, even though your doctor might be placing
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lots of emphasis on it.
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But you should be especially skeptical of
your doctor's diagnosis of your bone on bone
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knee joint situation.
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Because if that's all they did, if all they
did was do some imaging for your knee, they
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never touched you.
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They never measured your range of motion.
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They never looked at the way the muscles are
balanced around the joints.
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And then ever took into consideration all
the facets of how your knees behaving like
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how much time you can stand on your feet.
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How much How about how well you're sleeping
at night because if the pain is bad at nights,
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then that's an indication that it might be
more severe.
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But also if you cannot straighten your knee
or bend your knee very well then that might
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be a more severe situation.
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But what we find very often is people can
bend and straighten their knee quite a bit.
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Maybe they have a little bit of limitations
and they can actually be on their feet a decent
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amount Before their knee starts to hurt or
swell, if that's your situation, your potential
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for improving your knee joints, even if it's
been bone on bone as diagnosed by your X ray
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or your doctor, you can probably improve enough
and never have to have a knee replacement
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surgery and get your knee back to feeling
normal again, for the long term.
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So don't worry about your bone on bone knee
joint arthritis that your doctor gave you
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based on your X ray without having checked
anything else.
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Take it with a huge grain of salt.
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Tip number four stick to light stretching
versus aggressive stretching.
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People suffering from bone on bone knee joint
arthritis typically have some limitation in
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their range of motion and their ability to
bend and straighten out their knee joints.
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So the logical thing that people think and
healthcare professionals will also recommend
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is to stretch that knee joints so that you
can make it as equal as the other side or,
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or to move it as far as it will go in either
direction.
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This is generally good advice if you have
limitations.
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And if you're in the earlier stages or phases
of knee arthritis.
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But I need to warn you that aggressively stretching
tends to make things worse, you have to keep
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it on the lighter side.
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And the reason for that is if you aggressively
stretch a knee joints, you add more compression
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to the surfaces inside the knee joint and
the joint lining as well.
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The cartilage actually gets pressed on itself.
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And that can make the inflammation in your
joints worse.
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It's called arthritis, because our Earth in
Latin means joints.
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And itis means inflammation.
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So there's already joint inflammation going
on.
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And if you compress it further, you're just
irritating it more just like if you had an
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injury on your hand here like a skin injury,
and you press it, it's going to inflame it
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and make it worse.
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Now in addition to compressing the knee joint,
you might actually be setting a reflex off
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in your muscles if you're stretching very
aggressively.
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If you feel a big muscle stretch, there's
something called the stretch reflex, you can
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look this up on the internet, the stretch
reflex causes the muscle that you're stretching
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to begin to contract or tighten up, which
actually makes it tighter in the long run.
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So you want to avoid stretching so hard that
you get the stretch reflex happening.
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So to keep your stretch like think of a zero
to 10 scale zero being nothing at all, you
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feel no stretch and 10 being the most intense
stretch you've ever felt in your life.
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Don't do anything past a three on that zero
to 10 scale.
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Another way of thinking of it is a mild stretch,
a moderate stretch and an intense stretch,
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you want to stick to the mild intensity of
stretch don't go into moderate or intense
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stick to the mild intensity.
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Tip number five is stretch for less time.
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But more frequently, most people even healthcare
providers really aren't aware of the research
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that's available around stretching, we know
that holding a stretch for 60 seconds or more
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really is not that much more beneficial.
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You get what's called diminishing returns.
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So the sweet spot for stretching is somewhere
between 30 and 60 seconds, once you go beyond
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60 seconds, then you might set off that stretch
reflex you're over compressing the knee joint,
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it's just not the best situation to be in,
you're going to get the most benefit out of
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stretching, if you hang out in that 30 to
60 range each time you stretch.
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So in order to maximize your knee joint flexibility,
you really only need to stretch for just a
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few minutes, I recommend my clients stretch
from just three to five minutes each time
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they do it holding each stretch for 30 to
60 seconds, you won't gain a whole lot of
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motion during this time.
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But that's okay.
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The way that you do accumulate more motion
is by stretching frequently throughout the
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day.
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For patients that truly do have stiffness
in their knee and losses of motion, we recommend
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that they stretch up to hourly 30 seconds
to 60 seconds each time three to five times.
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And they need to continue this throughout
the day to maximize the benefits from stretching.
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Now of course you don't need to wake up in
the middle the night to stretch.
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And once you've gone through about two days
of stretching and you're not making much more
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improvements, then you're probably done stretching.
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This goes for you even if your knee joint
has not fully achieved its complete range
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of motion, you might have what's called a
new normal range of motion, which means that
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you might just be permanently stiff based
on the severity of your knee arthritis.
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And as long as it's a manageable amounts,
you can probably still get away with not having
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knee surgery.
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And as long as it's a manageable amount of
motion that you still have.
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You can probably get away with never having
knee replacement surgery even though your
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knee has lost a little bit of motion permanently.
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Tip number six is to try this foot twisting
exercise out sit somewhere where your knee
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is bent about 90 degrees.
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And then you're just going to twist your foot
inwards and outwards three times 1234 Count
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each movement as a rep, and go to 13.
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You're trying to really get your foot all
the way outwards each time you take it and
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all the way inwards as long as it doesn't
hurt to do this.
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When thinking about more mobility for your
knee joints, this easy exercise could free
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up some missing motion of the knee.
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Most people don't realize that the knee joint
actually has some twisting ability in it,
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they usually just think of straightening out
the knee and bending the knee.
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But because there is some joint player some
freedom of motion in rotation, if you take
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advantage of this rotation exercise, you might
free up some extra motion when straightening
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out and bending your knee joints.
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Try doing 30 reps every one to two hours for
three days to test if this helps out your
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knee joint.
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If it does help out, this might be something
that you need to be doing more regularly to
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improve your knee joint health.
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Tip number seven is to tailgate swing as often
as possible.
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This is a tailgate swing, you're just easily
swinging your legs back and forth, like you're
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sitting on the back of a truck on the tailgate
and just hanging out talking with friends.
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This super easy exercise is extremely beneficial,
you're doing so much good.
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There's fluid inside your knee joints, it's
called synovial fluid, it's the joint fluid
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that circulates within your joints.
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The only way that you can create circulation
for that is by moving your joints.
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It's not connected to our heart and circulatory
system.
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So your heart doesn't really have a strong
effect on moving the fluid inside.
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But you need to get some movement in there
in order to move the fluid and it's important
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to move the fluid because that joint fluid
that synovial fluid carries important nutrients
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that help to heal the cartilage inside your
knee joints.
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Do this for five minutes at a time if you
can.
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If you want to go longer, even better, you
can swing harder if you like you can swing
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both legs at the same time or alternate, it
doesn't matter just get some easy, unweighted
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motion going through your knee joints to help
it out right now, tip number eight is to massage
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your thigh muscles on the front of your thigh.
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These muscles are often tight, they often
get little knots or tender spots throughout
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the muscle.
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And that's because this muscle tends to be
overused.
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When it comes to people that have knee joint
arthritis.
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There's tons of easy ways to do this.
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And there's huge benefit in doing this, you
can get immediate relief in your knee joint
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because you're taking pressure off the knee
joint.
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By freeing up the tightness in the muscle
on the front here, the most effective way
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we found out is by using one of these massage
guns, you would turn the device on it starts
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to move real fast and just easily push this
through your thigh muscle, finding the tender
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spots and working them out.
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And you can increase the intensity as you
can tolerate it.
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And the point here is to make sure that those
tender spots once you find one hanging out
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hanging out on it freed up pounded free, get
it to loosen up.
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Now you don't have to get a massage going
like this.
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But of course these are pretty nifty and handy.
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You can use a roller ball like this one, this
has got a metal ball, you can freeze this,
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and so it's cold as well as compressive.
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And you can just work out or not this way.
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We have it in different directions.
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And there's also massage sticks like this.
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These are kind of like a rolling pin style.
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And you can work out the tightness in your
thigh muscles.
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And you might even go all the way up into
the hip area this way.
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And you can use a very cheap tennis ball as
well just to roll it out.
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And you want to go even cheaper, how about
your hand just freed up like that you can
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use your fist, your thumb your fingers like
this, it doesn't matter just get those knots
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free and loose anywhere from one to five minutes
or more.
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If you can tolerate it and feel like you can
do it will help to free up the motion in your
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thigh muscle which decompresses your knee
joints.
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Tip number nine is to drink more water.
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This is a hugely underrated tip I can't stress
enough.
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Most people don't drink enough water, you
should look to consume about 100 ounces or
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about three liters of water per day.
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Tip number 10 is taking joint supplements
joint supplements like glucosamine, chondroitin,
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collagen, MSM, there's so many out there and
generally they're all helpful for you as long
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as you don't have any reactions to them.
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Tumeric is another one it's not really a joint
supplement and there's MSM their anti inflammatory
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supplements that can help with bringing down
the inflammation inside your knee joints.
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And just a quick side note using supplements
is you really need to give them a good two
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months of taking them consistently.
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Just as the directions say on the supplements
because of supplements need to build up in
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your body in your system in order to be able
to affect the knee joints.
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You can't just take these for a few days or
even a few weeks and then judge their effectiveness.
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You really have to go out and purchase two
months worth to give it a good go and make
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sure that you can tell that they're working
or not for you.
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Tip number 11 is to stop strengthening your
quad muscles.
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This goes back to the muscle The balance that
I've been talking about little by little,
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and while I would want you to free up your
thigh muscles because it gets so tight, when
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your quad muscles, the muscles that are right
here on the front of your thigh get stronger
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and stronger, they compress the knee joint
more and more, these muscles go into the kneecap
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and attach to the shin bone.
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And so when they get tighter, they pull the
joint together and can create a ton of compression
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to the knee joint.
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And it's that excessive compression over time
that ends up irritating the lining of the
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joints wearing away the cartilage and creating
a bone on bone knee joint situation.
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And this is not common knowledge, I'm probably
saying something that you've never heard of
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and your doctor might not even have heard
of, they will often recommend that you strengthen
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these quad muscles.
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Because these muscles have a direct connection
to the knee joints, they logically assume
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that strengthening them is a good thing and
that it makes knee arthritis better.
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But it actually makes it worse because it
adds that extra compression to the knee joints.
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Now some people do tell me Well I'm weak all
over my legs.
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My quads are also weak, I've just kind of
a weak person.
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And what I say to this is you might still
have over dominant quads meaning that even
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if you're weak all over your body, your quads
relatively to the your other muscles in your
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hip and thigh, your quads might be the strongest
muscle of all your weak muscles, which makes
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it the dominant stronger muscle and going
to go strengthen this muscle is probably going
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to make your situation worse, you don't want
to be doing that.
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Stop strengthening your quads, stop doing
leg extension exercises stopped doing leg
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press exercises, stop doing any exercise where
you feel the front of your thighs here working
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quite a bit during the exercise because that
is likely going to cause that extra inflammation
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in your knee joint over time.
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Tip number 12 is to stop strengthening your
hamstring muscles on the back of your thigh.
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These muscles cross the knee joint and attach
to the shin bone.
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And they can also compress the knee joints
and irritate the lining of the cartilage surfaces
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inside the knee joints.
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This is the second most commonly overused
muscle in addition to the quads, and they
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directly can impact the compression in the
knee joints.
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So getting stronger thigh muscles on the front
and getting stronger thigh muscles on the
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back just sets people up for worse knee arthritis
situations as time goes on.
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And this is something you should avoid, even
though your healthcare providers might be
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telling you to strengthen them.
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So then you might ask the question, well,
what the heck do I strengthen in order to
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make my knee better this takes me to number
13 is to get your butt muscles or your glutes
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stronger.
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The glute muscles are nearly always the weakest
link when it comes to treating a knee arthritis
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problem.
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Getting stronger in the glutes tends to balance
out the forces on the knee joint.
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And the reason for it is because the glutes
can directly affect the knee joint even though
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the glute muscles don't attach to the knee
joint directly, they influence the position
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of the thigh bone, the glutes can cause the
hip to rotate like this, which ends up rotating
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the knee joints.
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And that changes the pressures dramatically
at the knee joints.
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So if you can control your knee better with
your glute muscles by getting stronger glutes,
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then the quads and the hamstrings in the back
can begin to behave more normally.
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And you can get balanced in your knee joints.
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This is often neglected in physical therapy
clinics, by trainers by the health care profession
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as a whole.
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The way that you know that you're strengthening
your glute muscles is that you can feel your
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glute muscles tightening up or working when
you're going to go exercise them.
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If you're trying to do a glute exercise, I
use air quotes because people do glute exercises
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but don't feel their glutes working, then
you're not doing a glute exercise even if
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that was your intent.
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Or maybe you saw that machine and it has the
picture of the person that shows the glute
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muscles are colored because you're supposed
to be targeting the muscles on that machine,
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whether it's an elliptical or a weight machine
of some sort.
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If you don't feel your glute muscles work
in there, it's not working your glutes, you
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need to make your glute muscles work and you
need to make them work without tightening
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up your thigh muscles.
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There's tons of exercises out there.
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Let me show you a quick one.
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Just to start off with right now go sit down
wherever you're at.
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And just think about tightening up your butt
muscles.
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If you also tightened up your thigh muscles
on the front of your hip and thigh right here,
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or the back of your thigh back here.
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Then you need to start from scratch and you
start from step one, you need to learn how
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to tighten up your butt muscles.
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I'm doing it right now without tightening
up your thigh muscles because if you can't
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do that, then you're not going to work yourself
into the proper balance.
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You're going to be strengthening your thigh
muscles when you're trying to strengthen your
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glutes and you're going to throw the balance
off even worse.
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Start by holding 10 to 20 seconds just in
seated like this.
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If you want to try it in standing, think about
squeezing your glute muscles.
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Hold it from 10 to 20 seconds and To avoid
tightening the thigh muscles on the front
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or the back of the thigh, we've got tons of
videos on our channel here for strengthening
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the glute muscles without using your thigh
muscles, you can go check them out in the
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description below.
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Now I've got a bonus tip for you secret tip
number 14, it's to get professional help from
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the right person.
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This is usually going to be a physical therapist,
but you got to watch out even then because
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if you're looking to avoid getting a knee
replacement surgery, then you've got to find
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the right clinic.
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Most physical therapy clinics help people
after they've had surgery like knee replacement
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surgeries, or other types of surgeries, back
surgeries, hip, neck, shoulder surgeries.
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If you go into a clinic, and you find that
most people there have had surgery, they're
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there to rehabilitate after having a recent
surgery, then you can guess pretty well that
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that clinic specializes in helping people
right after surgery, which means that they're
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not probably going to specialize in helping
you avoid a surgery.
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It is a different specialty.
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So you have to do some research to find out
which clinic is the best fit for you.
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And if you're having a lot of trouble what
you can do.
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In the meantime, we've got a program that
we offer here online it's called the knee
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arthritis recovery program.
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It's a comprehensive online program 100% online
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you want.
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from any mobile device you can watch videos
from and you have an internet connection to
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this program is me on video guiding you through
every single step that you should be going
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through to take your knee arthritis into a
better healthy situation.
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And it's designed for people that are looking
to avoid getting a knee replacement surgery.
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You can learn all about it in the link in
the description below.
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