12/09/2025
This is how I manage joint pain, tendinitis and all the weird that came with perimenopause: welcome to the musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause. Your body was always meant to change, however I need you to change some habits as your hormones fluctuate. As a physical therapist that takes care of women, this is the most simple and true answer I can give you: joint mobility and resistance training.
Joint mobility is the ability to move your joint through the entire motion and be able to control the joint. Examples of a mobility routine might look like yoga sun salutations or your PT exercises or CARS.
Resistance training is moving your body against some type of resistance to make it stronger: body weight, free weights, machines. This stress on your muscles helps your bones and tendons remodel in a healthy way. There is no pill that can remodel our tendons, muscles and bones like resistance training.
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