How to reach joint care from Mesa

What route to take from west or central Mesa

From west Mesa, Dobson Road runs south across the city line to the Chandler clinic. The drive is roughly eight miles when you begin near that side of Mesa.

From central Mesa, take US-60 west to Dobson Road and then travel south. The trip is about twenty minutes outside rush hour.

Leave extra time when traffic is heavy or sitting makes your joint stiff. If you’ll need another driver, arrange that help before leaving home.

What route to take from east or north Mesa

From Eastmark, ASU Polytechnic, and the Gateway area, Loop 202 Santan runs west to Dobson Road. From Superstition Springs, the trip often takes around half an hour, depending on US-60 traffic.

For north or northeast Mesa, the Scottsdale location at 9220 E. Mountain View Road may be closer. Loop 202 Red Mountain to Loop 101 Pima serves Las Sendas, Red Mountain, and Falcon Field.

Check where you will start before choosing a clinic. A shorter drive may help when sitting makes the joint ache.

What to bring to the clinic

Take your scan report, medicines, and a note naming the movement that hurts. Wear clothes that let a trained health professional examine the joint.

At QC Kinetix, trained health professionals may draw your blood, spin it to concentrate part, and place that PRP into the sore joint. The clinic team can be reached at (602) 837-PAIN.

Ask whether walking or reaching might feel easier and whether you might sleep better. Before leaving, get the cost, risks, and any limits on activity.

Sources

1. The Cochrane review of exercise for knee osteoarthritis found high-quality evidence that land-based therapeutic exercise provides short-term benefit in pain and physical function, sustained for at least 2-6 months after the programme ends, with mild transient soreness the only reported adverse effect across 45 trials. It is the best-evidenced treatment for this condition and it costs nothing per injection.

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2. The 2019 ACR/Arthritis Foundation guideline makes STRONG recommendations for exercise, weight loss in people with overweight or obesity, self-efficacy and self-management programs, tai chi, cane use, tibiofemoral bracing, topical NSAIDs, oral NSAIDs and intra-articular glucocorticoid injection in knee OA. Notably it does NOT strongly recommend any biologic injectable.

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3. Roughly 14 million people in the United States have symptomatic knee osteoarthritis, and more than half of them are under 65 - with nearly 2 million under 45. The market for a cash-pay procedure sold as an alternative to joint replacement is largely working-age people who are being told they are too young for surgery.

   Deshpande BR, et al. — Number of Persons With Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis in the US: Impact of Race and Ethnicity, Age, Sex, and Obesity.. Arthritis care & research, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/acr.22897.

4. The lifetime risk of developing symptomatic knee osteoarthritis is approximately 45%, rising with obesity and with a history of significant knee injury. Almost half of all adults will eventually face the decisions this topic describes.

   Murphy L, et al. — Lifetime risk of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.. Arthritis and rheumatism, 2008. DOI: 10.1002/art.24021.