Joint pain doesn’t mean the end of exercise - and stopping can make things worse, Detroit trainer Pierre Vinson says.
“We want to distinguish the difference between injury and joint pain,” said Vinson, owner of GIVE Fitness. “If you’re injured, there’s a time period to heal. But if I’m hurt with joint pain or have arthritis, will stopping make that go away? No, it actually doesn’t. It makes it worse.”
Vinson says stronger muscles help support and stabilize aching joints. He organizes training into four “buckets”: flexibility, mobility, strength and stability.
“There are multiple buckets,” he said. “Flexibility - stretching the muscle that the joint is associated with. Mobility - the range of motion. Then strengthening the joints with different strength training exercises. And stability - like standing on one leg or holding a plank. All of those buckets will help.”
“The goal is to do something rather than nothing,” Vinson said. “But, of course, safely and effectively.”
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