Exercise For Osteoarthritis: Strength Training, Stretching, and 2 Surprising Exercises

Do you have osteoarthritis (OA)? Your knees, hip or back hurt either all the time, or with certain movements. You’re stiff when you get up in the morning. Maybe you went to the doctor or physical therapist, they send you to get an X-Ray or MRI, and saw that there’s no cartilage. You have bone-on-bone arthritis. They might have even mentioned something about a hip replacement or knee replacement surgery.

On the one hand, you don’t want to go under the knife, but on the other, the pain may be tolerable now, but in a few years, you may be a candidate for that surgery, and at that point, the pain may be much worse.

What to do?

That’s what we’ll talk about in this article: exercise for osteoarthritis (both physical and mental).

But first, a little background:

A lot of our clients have OA, so we already had a pretty successful program for OA, with lots of success stories, like Carole, Pat, Anne, and others.

But because of the sheer number of clients that we see with OA, I’m never really satisfied with just “good enough.” The standard recommendation is to just do low impact exercises. And while they avoid making OA worse, they don’t really make it better. I want to know the best…