What We Treat

Arthritis treatment in Edwards & Avon.

The stiffness that makes your hands feel foreign until you’ve been up for twenty minutes. The jar lid you used to open without a thought. It’s manageable, and it starts with a cause-first evaluation of how your joints actually move, not just a diagnosis on a chart.

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Sound Familiar?

Does this sound like you?

  • Your hands need a good twenty minutes every morning just to loosen up
  • Jar lids, buttons, and zippers turning into a wrestling match
  • Stairs that used to be automatic, now they’re a decision
  • Swelling in your knuckles or knees that shows up by evening
  • Skipping activities you love because the joint “just isn’t what it was”
  • Being told “that’s just arthritis” and handed nothing else

Two or more? Arthritis doesn’t have to mean giving things up.

Why It Happens

Arthritis pain is a symptom. Something still causes the stiffness.

Arthritis changes the joint. It doesn’t have to dictate how it moves. What actually drives your day-to-day stiffness is usually some mix of three things: muscles around the joint that have quietly weakened to protect it, motion that’s been avoided so long the joint forgot it had it, and nearby joints picking up the slack until they start hurting too.

A diagnosis explains what’s happening in the joint. It doesn’t tell you what to do about it. That takes a real, cause-first evaluation of how you actually move, at work, in the kitchen, on the stairs, so we can build strength and motion around what arthritis has taken instead of just naming it. For hands especially, that often means specific hand-therapy techniques built for grip, dexterity, and the small joint motions daily life actually demands.

You’ve spent your life being the capable one, the one who doesn’t ask for help opening a jar. Arthritis doesn’t have to change that. It just means you deserve a plan that keeps it true.

Physical therapist assessing a patient's hand and wrist joint mobility for arthritis

The Honest Truth

Waiting on stiff joints doesn’t make them wait on you.

If you keep waiting

  • Muscles around the joint keep weakening from disuse
  • Mornings that used to take ten minutes start taking thirty
  • You quietly give up more activities than the arthritis actually requires

If you start this week

  • You know exactly which joints and muscles need work by visit one
  • Hands-on relief and guided motion start before you leave the building
  • You get a plan with an endpoint: real strength and motion, not just “manage it”

Nobody regrets starting too early. Every week, someone in our clinic says they regret waiting.

How We Fix It

The same four phases. Built for arthritis.

Every plan has an endpoint. Here’s what the four phases look like for arthritis.

Weeks 1–2

Pain

Calm the joint down.

Hands-on techniques and gentle guided motion ease swelling and stiffness in the affected joint, starting your very first visit.

Weeks 2–6

Prime

Get the motion back.

Targeted mobility work, including hand-therapy techniques where needed, restores motion the joint has quietly lost.

Weeks 6–10

Perform

Build strength around the joint.

Progressive strengthening builds the muscle support that takes pressure off the joint itself.

Weeks 10+

Prevent

Keep doing what you love.

Your hardest daily tasks, jars, stairs, gripping, get tested under real conditions before you’re cleared: that’s the endpoint, not just another appointment.

We treat the cause behind arthritis, not just the symptom, with a plan built around what you actually need.

Our approach · Arthritis

Before care: arthritis getting in the way of daily life

With a plan: steady progress, built around your actual goals

Arthritis Care philosophy

Related Conditions

Pain rarely stays in one place.

Compensation patterns often show up nearby. Here’s what else we treat.

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Neck Pain

That knot between your shoulder blades by 3pm: tension headaches, migraines, neck strain that never fully lets go.

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Shoulder Pain

Reaching for the top shelf and stopping halfway, wincing.

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Elbow & Wrist Pain

Your grip giving out on a jar lid you used to open without thinking.

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Questions, Answered

What people ask before booking for arthritis.

Usually not. Most people already have an arthritis diagnosis by the time they come to us, and a new scan won’t tell us how you actually move, sit, or grip. Colorado allows direct access to physical therapy, so you don’t need a referral to start. We begin with a cause-first evaluation of your function, not another image of the joint.

Yes, in most cases, the right movement protects the joint rather than wearing it down. Strong muscles around a joint absorb load the joint would otherwise take on its own. You’re one-on-one with a physical therapist every visit, so the dose gets built around your specific joints, not a one-size-fits-all routine.

True, and that’s not the goal. The goal is your function: your grip, your mornings, your stairs. A full plan runs through all four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform, and Prevent, typically over 8–10 weeks. Either way, you get a plan with an endpoint: you’ll always know which phase you’re in and what’s left, not an open-ended string of appointments.

Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back, usually within two business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Mon–Fri: 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM · Sat–Sun: Closed
  • (970) 569-3883 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • Same-week appointments available

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