These days more and more patients are coming in with pain caused ultimately by joint dysfunction, or more accurately, the "mal-use" of particular joints that are prone to wear and tear. To meet this challenge, we as health care providers need to take better approaches to not only getting rid of the pain but preventing further damage to these particular areas.  

ReaLine® tools are easy to use and provide an innovative approach to resolving the issues surrounding patients with joint dysfunction.   Every day in our practice, we see how the same underlying root cause produces a variety of symptoms.   For the most part, the symptoms are caused by dysfunction or weakness of muscles surrounding large joints.  We already know that "educating" our patients plays a key role in helping them avoid recurrences of the same problems.   Now, we need to take it a step further and teach them how to move and strengthen the crucial areas to avoid chronic dysfunction.

The major joints that ReaLine® focuses on are:

• Foot/Ankle
• Knee
• Hip/Pelvis
• Thoracic spine 

We consider these to be the areas where the majority of musculoskeletal pain and joint issues originate. 

Working to improve the kinematics of these joints create a high return of investment in long term joint functioning and joint preservation.

This is not to say that strengthening the muscles around the location of pain and/ or strengthening the core is less important.

The central message of ReaLine® is that without looking at and correcting what is happening in these crucially important areas for human movement, the source of the problem may not be eliminated.