The 6 Worst Habits for Your Joints
Everything from what you eat to how often you text can affect the health of your joints Use anything on and off all day, every day — for decades — and over time, it’s bound to show wear and tear. Case in point: the protective cushion between your bones, otherwise known as cartilage. That’s why the risk for developing osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease, increases with age, says Angelie Mascarinas, M.D., a physiatrist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, headquartere