Changing how you grip helped more sore hands than hand drills
Live well There is a gray foam tube on the handle of my coffee mug now, and it cost me
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A thumb splint at night helped after a year, not a month
Two good trials, two different answers. One measured a year, the other twelve weeks.
Read this issueA light pinch puts twelve times the load on your thumb base
A two pound pinch, twenty six pounds at the base. Here is why, and how sure we are.
Read this issueTen slow fists at the sink, and the honest odds for stiff hands
Carol's pickle jar beat me. Here is the slow fist I do now, and the honest odds.
Read this issueAbout four in ten knees creak, and plenty of them do not hurt
In 103 studies of 36,439 people, 36 in 100 with no knee pain still had noisy knees.
Read this issueSturdy shoes eased knee pain more than flat, bendy ones
164 people, six months: walking pain fell 2.1 points with sturdy shoes against 1.1.
Read this issueSlow tai chi classes matched physical therapy for sore knees
204 adults, two slow classes a week for 12 weeks: about as good as physical therapy.
Read this issueYour knee X-ray and your knee pain often disagree
Of 991 people, 61 in 100 with a meniscus tear had no knee pain that month.
Read this issueTen slow chair stands for a sore knee, and the honest odds
A review of 139 trials: exercise eased knee pain by 9 to 13 points out of 100.
Read this issueYour hips do not come with a set number of miles
In 17 studies of 114,829 people, casual runners had less hip and knee arthritis than people who did not run. Here is what that does and does not prove, plus the week in hips.
Read this issueSide hip pain at night is often a tendon you are squeezing
In a trial of 204 people, 77 in 100 felt better after eight weeks of habit lessons and exercise. Here are the habits, starting with a pillow.
Read this issueHold the cane on the side that does not hurt
A study of 27 worn hips: a cane in the far hand cut walking pain from 42 to 26.
Read this issueThe chiropractor, the pills, and the sheet of exercises
272 people with sore necks were split three ways. Two hours of coaching held its own.
Read this issueHalf of every head turn happens at one joint
How it works Last winter I backed the car out of our drive and found I could not turn my
Read this issueAn inch back, ten times, twice a day
Slide your chin straight back and hold it for five seconds. Then do it nine more times.
Read this issueYour scan says degeneration, and so does nearly everyone's
37 in every 100 healthy twenty-year-olds. 96 in 100 by eighty.
Read this issueThe back advice everyone knows, and it does not work
Four thousand postal workers were taught to lift properly, then followed for five years.
Read this issueSix sessions, one pair of shoes, and 96 extra days
701 people were randomized, and the thing being tested was walking.
Read this issueMost back pain never gets a name
In primary care, a specific cause turns up in about one case in a hundred.
Read this issueThe two minutes I do before I get out of bed
Knees bent, feet flat, and let them fall slowly to one side.
Read this issueThe bottle on the counter is not doing it
Nine trials, thirty six thousand people, and not one fewer fall.
Read this issueDecluttering works, if you are the right person
Fourteen trials say the same thing twice, in opposite directions.
Read this issueThe program that cut falls by a third, at a kitchen chair
Seven trials, 1,503 people, average age 81 and a half.
Read this issueThree systems keep you upright, and all three fade
Your eyes, your inner ear, and the sense of where your feet are.
Read this issueTen seconds, one foot behind the other
The narrowest thing you will stand on today is your own two feet.
Read this issueA tear on the scan is not a verdict
Two thirds of the people carrying one did not know it was there.
Read this issueHow to get a shirt on when one shoulder says no
Sore arm in first, good arm out first. And what to do with the pillows.
Read this issueThe twelve weeks that emptied a surgery list
Fifteen reps, three sets, twice a day. And weight in the hand, week after week.
Read this issueFour muscles are holding your arm on
The socket is shallow on purpose. That was the bargain.
Read this issueThe move that goes across your chest, not over your head
Thirty to sixty seconds, three times, twice a day. Sitting in a chair.
Read this issueThe spur is not the nail in your heel
Most people who have one never knew. That does not make it nothing.
Read this issueThe slipper is the problem, not the shoe you paid for
What the footwear evidence holds up, and the pair I put in the bin.
Read this issueLoad it, do not just stretch it
48 sore heels, a rolled towel and the bottom stair.
Read this issueWhy the first ten steps hurt and the next hundred do not
There is a rope under your arch. It sits short and slack all night.
Read this issueTwo minutes before your feet hit the floor
A ten second hold, ten times, done sitting on the edge of the bed.
Read this issueEleven million visits, and the rain did not show up
My hands are certain a storm is coming. The records disagree, politely.
Read this issueEvery doorknob in this house is now a lever
The first thing on the guideline list is not a drug. It is your kitchen.
Read this issueThe splint that lost to a conversation
349 people, three groups, and a result the shops will not print.
Read this issueThe bumps on my fingers are not a warning
Two dead doctors named them. Both said the same thing about pain.
Read this issueThe jar of jam I could not open
Ten slow thumb touches, twice a day. The evidence is small and I will say so.
Read this issueYour knee clicks. That is not a countdown.
36% of people with no pain and no injury make the same sound.
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One useful thing a day
Start with tomorrow morning.
A stretch, a sleeping position, a heat trick for a stiff hour. Short enough to read with your coffee. If one does not fit, skip it. The next one might.
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