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Inside This Issue
Tips on Addressing Arthritis
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Patient of the Month The Support Your Posture Needs
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Grilled Corn With Plant-Based Aioli
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How Knee and Back Pain Lead to Other Problems
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The Chicken and the Egg HOW KNEE AND BACK PAIN LEAD TO OTHER PROBLEMS
Sometimes in physical therapy, we talk about the chicken and the egg.
You’ve heard the riddle, of course — which came first, the chicken or the egg? Without the egg, you can’t grow a chicken. But without a chicken, who will lay that egg? It’s the kind of wordplay and logic teaser that’s delighted children (and adults) for centuries, and while it lacks a certain scientific approach, it works very well as a metaphor for common real- life conundrums. What the riddle really means is that often, when we’re faced with a problem, it’s hard to separate cause and effect, to see what came first and what caused what. Arthritis, which I mentioned in our cover letter, is a great example of this. Do you have arthritis because of an old injury, or is the pain actually just the arthritis itself? It’s a complicated web, which is why people in our line of work attend school and study for years just to help untangle that web and give you the right treatment the first time around.
Still, things go much easier if you come in and get seen sooner rather than later. The pain at the site of that old injury may be from the arthritis or
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