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Stiff or sore knees, hips, or shoulders? You’ve joined quite the popular club. In a 2022 University of Michigan poll, 70% of adults age 50 and older said they were currently experiencing joint pain. And women were more likely than men to say they were hurting, as well as to rate their aches as more severe.
As the years pass, cartilage—the spongy substance that cushions the ends of your bones—breaks down, says Robyn Culbertson, P.T., D.P.T., a physical therapist at the Medical University of South Carolina Northeast Columbia outpatient therapy clinic and a spokesperson for the American Physical Therapy Association. That’s the root cause of...
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