Healthy joints are essential to fluid body movements such as bending, twisting, and stretching.  If you have healthy joints it makes simple movements seem like no problem- you can hike, run, and even just walk up a flight of stairs without thinking twice. When osteoarthritis affects your joints even the most simple movement can feel like grinding pain.

If you're over twenty five, you probably have experienced some form of joint pain. The bad news is that as we get older the more likely it is that we will have persistent joint pain of some sort.  If you play sports, jog or weight train you are likely to have tendinitis at some point, and as you age arthritis becomes a probability. In fact 68% of people over the age of 65 are living with arthritis.  It can be very debilitating. Now that many of us work on computers for a living, we are likely to develop tendinitis in our fingers and wrists, others may get lateral epicondylitis or tennis elbow if their work involves any type of lifting.