Can you open up space in a tight joint without surgery or injections after 40.
Yes. But not with stretching.
There are two types of motion in every joint. One you can partly control and it is the one everybody measures. The other lives inside the joint capsule and you have no voluntary control over it at all. You cannot stretch it. You cannot strengthen it. You cannot foam roll it. And it is the one that decides how far the first one can go.
Kim Nartker spent over twenty five years in physical therapy as a PTA and ran her own practice before building The Stretch Mobility Coach. In this episode she breaks down what accessory motion actually is and why a range of motion score cannot tell you where your loss is coming from. She explains what a stretch session reaches and what it never touches. She walks through what physical therapists and chiropractors and osteopathic doctors each do to a joint and what the research says about when any of them do it.
Then she gets to the rusted hinge. A door in your house that will not open the way it used to. You can pull on it as hard as you like. The rust is the problem and pulling harder has never once removed rust.
She also looks at what a knee replacement actually gives back. The straightening improves. The bend usually does not. And the hip and the ankle and the back that nobody tested are still sitting there restricted.
The most useful thing in this episode is a question. Before you agree to any treatment ask what movement can I expect from this. Then ask how long do I keep it after the treatment stops. Write both down. Most people never ask either one.
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Movement health education. Not medical advice.
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