The knee is one of the most common joints for people to experience pain in. It’s also one of the most common joints where someone will be diagnosed with osteoarthritis. Whilst it’s a description that isn’t particularly accurate or helpful, the ‘bone on bone’ conversation is a common one that medical professionals have with their patients.

Blood pressure is the amount of force the blood being pumped from our heart exerts on our vessels, without it our cardiovascular system wouldn’t work. When this pressure is high we call this HYPERTENSION which means your blood is pumping with a force greater than normal through your arteries.

I want to get back to how I felt when I was younger, but I just don’t have the time! Help?

Doing something about your current physical condition can be tricky, there’s no argument there. A heavy work schedule, loads of commitments - it can be hard to find time to exercise and everything that’s required. But not ‘having time’, though a common theme in reasons not to exercise, is an easier statement to make than to understand.