Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Stronger thighs for stairs and low chairs! 👏🏼 Feeling unsteady on stairs or struggling to get up from low chairs? This simple but powerful lateral step-up can help strengthen your thighs AND glutes—two key muscle groups that support your knees, hips, and daily movement. 😇 This exercise also challenges your balance and stability, making it a great all-in-one move for building lower body strength and confidence with activities like walking,
Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Stronger thighs for stairs and low chairs! 👏🏼 Feeling unsteady on stairs or struggling to get up from low chairs? This simple but powerful lateral step-up can help strengthen your thighs AND glutes—two key muscle groups that support your knees, hips, and daily movement. 😇 This exercise also challenges your balance and stability, making it a great all-in-one move for building lower body strength and confidence with activities like walking,
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Can you keep up? This short workout is set using a metronome of 70 beats per minute. These metronome style workouts can be a fun way to challenge coordination, balance and stamina for walking ✅ I have a couple follow along longer workouts inside of Adventurers for Life using metronomes at different speeds and they are quickly becoming some of the favorites by members 🙌🏼 This also offers a way to try something new! 👍🏽 ⚠️ If you’re having
Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Can you keep up? This short workout is set using a metronome of 70 beats per minute. These metronome style workouts can be a fun way to challenge coordination, balance and stamina for walking ✅ I have a couple follow along longer workouts inside of Adventurers for Life using metronomes at different speeds and they are quickly becoming some of the favorites by members 🙌🏼 This also offers a way to try something new! 👍🏽 ⚠️ If you’re having
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Simple exercise for happier joints ✅ Think about it- most of the time, as humans we are moving forward. When is the last time you moved sideways? There are muscles in your hip responsible for moving your leg sideways. If you don’t move that way, it can lead to muscle weakness and loss of range of motion ☝🏽 Moving sideways can also be nice to the knees as well! 🦵🏽 I often get asked “how many repetitions should I do or how long should I mov
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Better balance when walking 😇 Here’s one balance exercise that can help you feel more steady when walking 🙌🏼 Try to walk one foot in front of the other like you’re on a balance beam- called tandem walking ☝🏽 You can make it easier by widening your stance. You can make it more difficult by also including backwards ↔️ Modify as needed. Safety is incredibly important when challenging balance ⚠️ Balance is helpful in supporting the joints, r
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Warmup for less stiffness and pain ✅ Many people have difficulty walking when dealing with osteoarthritis. Two of the main symptoms that can be limiting are joint pain and joint stiffness ☝🏽 Warming up the ankles, hips and knees can make a big difference in how walking feels for you 🙌🏼 These three exercises can help to get blood flowing as well as activate certain muscles that help to support the joints 👏🏼 You can choose one of these ex
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Is the floor evil to you? Getting up from the floor can be quite difficult especially if your knees aren’t feeling up to it ☝🏽 The goal when getting up from the ground is to build enough single leg strength to push you up but also be able to tolerate kneeling 🧎‍♀️ This is not something I recommend practicing until you’re ready or unless with a supervised health professional ✅ These two movements are just two SUGGESTIONS ☝🏽 There are so ma
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "How to get more mobility in the knees 🦵🏽 Keeping mobility in your knees is important for walking, stairs, running and sitting on lower surfaces like sofas and toilets. ☝🏽 If you’re having difficulty with range of motion (bending and straightening) in your knees- these simple movements can help ✅ They shouldn’t cause significant pain and movements should not be forced ⚠️ The goal is to restore bending and straightening as best as you can w
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Stronger thighs = less joint pain ✅ Research has shown the importance of thigh muscles strength to make your knees feel good 🙌🏼 It has been purposed that thigh strength may have the ability to be a predictor for a knee replacement in certain people 🤯 Basically- thigh strength matters ⚠️ Here are two quick options ☝🏽 IMPORTANT: in order to build strength you have to challenge your muscles appropriately. Make sure the exercise feels challe
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Getting down to the floor ⬇️ There are many different ways to get down to the floor. Some of which may be easier depending on your knee mobility, strength and pain levels that may be present ☝🏽 Here are three examples of ways to get down to the floor with kneeling and no kneeling. Each of these does require different levels of upper body and lower body strength 💪🏽 If you have hand or wrist pain, you can use a higher surface like an ottoma
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Stairs can feel easy again! ✅ Stairs can be difficult- especially if you are dealing with joint pain or stiffness but with the right exercises you can build strength to feel confident again 👏🏼 The two most important aspects of stair climbing is making g sure you have: 1️⃣Adequate mobility in the knee, hip and ankle 2️⃣Adequate single leg strength Both of these movements help to challenge mobility and strength If you do experience pain with
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "My most asked question… “Can you share your leg routine?” The thing is- I’m always switching it up! But I typically follow the same principles. It’s not as easy as I always do exercise A, B, C and D and use this weight. I usually stick to a few main lifts: 👉🏼 Squats 👉🏼 Deadlifts 👉🏼 Lunges But I mix up how I do them. The key to strengthening is making sure the exercise is at the appropriate intensity, leading to muscle fatigue. Meaning-
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Dealing with a meniscus tear? 🦵🏽 Degenerative meniscus tears often happen without a specific injury and can lead to instability, pain putting full weight on that leg, difficulty straightening and pain along your knee joint line 😣 Research has shown that one of the first lines of treatment is actually exercise ✨ Gentle exercise can help to improve blood flow to the meniscus which can help with healing. Strengthening the muscles around the
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Stronger glutes! Here are three exercises that can be done at home or in the gym that work to strengthen the glutes, the primary muscles that support the side and back of the hip joint ✅ There are options to make these exercises easier by reducing weight/resistance or using no weight/resistance. You can make them more difficult by increasing repetitions and/or weight 👍🏽 It is important to have strong glutes to support the hip
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Legs feeling weak? 🦵🏽 Maybe they feel like they’re going to give out or that they tire really easily.. This is one exercise that can help rebuild strength necessary for walking, stairs, running and more 🤩 The beauty is- you can make this easier or harder depending on your current strength levels 👀 Stepping forward and backward primarily works the leg you are standing on 👍🏽 Add in a knee bend to make it more challenging ☝🏽 This exercis
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Alyssa Kuhn DPT | Osteoarthritis Expert on Instagram: "Getting out of the tub without kneeling Here is ONE example of how to get out of the tub. ⚠️ Few things to consider ⚠️ 1. Make sure your tub has tread on the bottom to decrease fall risk 2. Keeping the water in the tub can help with buoyancy 3. You can use a hot tub cushion or foam pad to help lift you up in the tub (recommendations in full YouTube video) 4. Do a dry run first (without water) to practice and have support of another person in
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