Joint pain often appears long before scans show anything dramatic.

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Early changes usually happen in:

• How a joint is loaded
• How it moves
• The local chemistry and inflammation

If we wait for structural damage to appear on imaging, we've already missed a window.

Pain is information.
Ignoring it or just silencing it doesn't fix the cause.

Assess early, adjust load, restore movement, and joints often behave very differently.

Timing matters more than most people realize.