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	Solution for Patient & Team

Use Our Joint Decisions' psychological & inspirational motivation, education & resources for hope & healing. Make best "Joint Decisions" with doctor, caregiver, family & friends. Follow-through on Rehabilitation to achieve Pain-Free Mobility & a Higher Quality of Life!


	Patient's Challenge

• Patient's Success is Patient's Responsibility!

• CORE ROADS TO LIFE are principles for success

• Joint pain effects everyone in patient's life

• Replace Fear with knowledge, hope & positive attitude

• Inconsistencies in orthopedic medical solutions

• Support needed from caregivers, family & friends

• Research & motivation insure best "Joint Decisions"

• Rehabilitation is a necessity to successful recovery


	Car Analogy

Throughout our new book, Our Joint Decisions: A Patient's Perspective to Successfully Manage Joint Pain, Surgeries & Replacements, the analogy of our automobile is used in comparison with our own body.

For example, if we have a flat tire, we do not keep driving our car becuase it will destroy the wheel and tire and take the wheels, tires, and care out of alignment. With our body, we expereince pain in our major joints, for example our knees, and continue to walk, run, and even palysports, many times not seeking a diagnosis from our doctor. Pain in our body is a signal there is a problem that needs to be fixed, just as our car does with tires, engine, and other working parts.

In everyday life, if we do procrastinate and damage our car, we know we can always replace it. We only have one body, and we need to do everything possible to keep it top shape, fully reparied, and fine tuned so it will serve us well throughout our life.

There are many other car anologies that we define in other parts of this website. Bottom line: don't take your body for granted; get it fixed and live with pain-free mobility for the Highest Quality of Life.