By Eliza Barclay – The New York Times –
I was lying on my side at physical therapy, halfway through a set of leg raises to strengthen a butt muscle gone soft, when a therapist attending to a 41-year-old woman with knee pain said something that made my ears perk up.
“After they turn 40, they all come in here with lower-body problems,” she said, referring to us, the patients.
Until that moment, I hadn’t considered the possibility that a perplexing parade of injuries I’d experienced since my 44th birthday — to my foot, my lower back, my hamstring, hip and elbow — was connected to my age.
