The 90 Day Knee Arthritis Remedy: An Uncommon Guide to Switching On Your Body's Natural Healing Power

Doug Kelsey, PT, Phd, created cutting edge physical therapy for the knee joint alone, not the supporting muscles. His therapy rehabs the knee joint itself, first, with light resistance training, before starting heavy resistance training like squats, second. The book has beautiful anatomical illustrations, and compact videos showing the innovative physical therapy exercises. Besides that, the narrative explains completely why you must rehab the joint itself first, before tackling the muscles second. P.S. I learned an important lesson about Kindle books. You can read them on your Computer, not just your KIndle. I opened the amazon website on the book and it gave me the option to read now. So I took the option and opened the book on my computer. Lo and Behold I could access the book and all the videos on my computer, unlike my Kindle. My Kindle could not open those videos. By the way, Doug Kelsey responded to an email about the kindle failing to open the videos and immediately gave me access to them. Most considerate author I've ever dealt with. Wish I could give him and the book 10 stars.

This is a well-written book on healing in general, with thoughtful exposition of many aspects of joint health. Among the broad topics covered are injuries, the effect of excess weight (and how to get rid of it), the benefits of recovery (rest, sleep, elevation, heat, etc.), the critical importance of patience. Specific to the knee, Dr. Kelsey covers the anatomy and function of different structures in and around the knee. He gives a clear explanation of the differences in the types of tissue and explains in detail why ligaments, tendons, and cartilage heal so differently from muscle and bone. From there, he develops the argument for why traditional physical therapy misses some key and important things that will help the knee, from building the strength of the "suspension system" of the body to replacing synovial fluid (the fluid that is inside the joint). Of particular importance is the idea that joints require very high amounts of completely weight-free exercise if we want to heal the parts that have no active circulation. As with all healing techniques, the idea here is to help the body help itself, and it makes a lot of sense. Better, having tried it, I can say that it is steadily reducing a number of joint aches I've been dealing with. The principle appears to work with all joints... probably there is a yoga practice here somewhere that would help prevent some of this stuff. The exercise routines could, perhaps, use a little expansion. Or perhaps a couple of examples of the most common ways that people progress through them from easier to harder as they develop capabilities. Took on star away because a good editor would improve it by removing some of the word-for-word repetitions, finding the incomplete sentences, and fix the mis-uses of the apostrophe. However, these do not dramatically reduce the usability and benefit of the book. Buy it anyway, and if you were an English major, offer to edit the second edition.

I have been dealing with knee pain for a long time, with inconsistent results. My goal is to avoid surgery. I had begun to lose hope for that possibility until I read about the success Kelsey has had at his clinic. So I bought his book. It increased my understanding of what I need to do in order to help my knees to work. The most salient information I learned is that I have to heal and strengthen the knee joint, not only the muscles in the quads. The knee joint has different needs in order to heal. My experiences in arthritic knee self care and the attendant frustrations started to make sense. I have hope again that I can avoid surgery. The thing I best like about his book is that he makes no promises that seem too good to be true if I only do this "one thing." He also provides access to long distance support through online ways to communicate if someone wants to consult and going to his Texas clinic is not feasible. The author is clearly someone who knows what he is talking about.

I happened upon this book 9 months after the start of pain in my knee. It got so bad I could hardly walk and needed a cane. I started doing 1 hour water aerobics 5 to 7 days a week. In the meantime went to sports doc and had cortisone and HA injections, and 2 rounds of PT. They helped little if at all. Eventually referred to surgeons who said I needed TKR as I had little cartilage behind kneecap. Instead I kept up with water aerobics; initially I went slow and easy, then gradually increased intensity of workout. Unknowingly I was doing exactly what this book suggests to do _ multiple repetitions ( 100 or so) with little to no impact. The hydrostatic pressure of the water improves circulations, and provides light resistance. The slower and more controlled the movement the less the resistance, the faster and more vigorous the more resistance. I will start using the exercises in this book, but I think the author is missing an addition treatment modality of exercises in water to move synovial fluid and promote healing of the knee joint without impact. This book makes a lot of sense to me from my own experience. Sport doc said one person can have an X-ray that shows virtually no cartilage yet has no pain, while another person can show mild cartilage loss and be in severe pain. Yet doctors routinely use X-ray and cartilage amount as an indicator for arthritis and the need for knee replacement; but clearly amount of cartilage and pain are not directly related. Xrays show cartilage of my right knee is as bad or worse as my left, yet my right knee is pain free. So the premise of this book makes a lot a sense to me.

Definetly recommend

Seems like a good book and does give some good advice about healing the joint first before strengthening muscles , and advice on supplements too , I am still at the beginner phase and increasing the synovial fluid in my knees , I doubt very much if i will ever be able to do some of the harder exercises as they require jumping over things , and my knees will not jump , but we shall see . I also had a problem with it not down loading to my kindle on my computer , so have no idea why that was , but i managed to read it from my orders page and click on " read now " and printed some of the most important pages off , as the first 20 or so chapters are a bit boring , but still useful , so it's good to read them first .