Coach Dan Pellegrino

Behind Joint Mobility Daily

About

Thirty years coaching basketball and track at a Phoenix high school, most of it on concrete under the gymnasium hardwood and in summers that start hot in May and don't relent until November. I coached kids on stretching, recovery, protecting their knees on bad landings. I did none of this for myself. By 56, I was getting that information back at 3 AM, every morning, from knees that had apparently been taking notes the whole time.

My doctor said "osteoarthritis" in early 2023 and suggested supplements before considering anything more invasive. A former player -- who knew I'd tracked every practice repetition and game stat for thirty years -- made the obvious point: do the same thing here. I started the notebook in June 2023 and have not missed a daily entry since.

Every morning before getting up: stiffness rating on a 1-10 scale. Then the stairs test, same three steps in my house. Then Belle -- my Lab has a tennis ball, and whether I can pick it up off the floor without audible difficulty is a real quality-of-life metric that no clinical scale captures but that Belle enforces regardless. By September 2023, that test had gone from a daily failure to a consistent pass. The improvement showed up in the notebook two weeks before I registered it consciously. That's what daily data does.

The first supplement I expected to work most -- a collagen-heavy formula a colleague had recommended -- showed nothing in my notebook at 45 days. Flat stiffness scores, flat stairs times, no movement on the Belle test. That review exists. It says exactly that. Not every supplement produces a trend, and three of them in my notebook have not. My wife says the notebook is excessive. She's right -- I have sixteen months of daily entries to back that up, but she's right.

I'm not a doctor or a physical therapist, and I say that in every review where it matters -- which on a joint supplement site is basically always.

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Disclosure

This site uses affiliate links. If you buy through one, I earn a commission at no extra cost to you. I only link to supplements I've tested in the notebook -- if something didn't show a trend, I say so in the review before any link appears. No financial relationship with any healthcare provider or medical professional beyond standard retail affiliate commissions.