Osteoarthritis is not an old person’s disease anymore. #kneepain #backpain #jointpain

In the early 2000s, the average adult onset age for osteoarthritis was 67. Over the past 20 years, that's dropped to 52. So we're not seeing this as an old person's disease anymore. These people who were in chronic pain, it just keeps getting younger and younger. We treat osteoarthritis very well, so we, we reduce inflammation in the joint. We see a lot of people with bad knees. And bad knees is the, is the kicking off point for a downward spiral where when you can't or don't move, the joints just get worse and worse. And it's extremely highly correlated to depression. Increased chronic anx. You see people just ascribing this to age, like, I'm just old. Part of our job is to educate and say, you can get out of this. You know, it takes consistency. The longer you've had it and the more damaging that trauma has been to the tissue in the first place, the longer treatment like this takes to, to help you. People can go like 10, 15, 20 years plus with back pain. It's like, oh, it's just what it is.