Joint pain & inflammation · New York & South Carolina
Joint pain that keeps coming back usually has a cause, and it’s worth finding.
If this sounds familiar, you’re in the right place.
- Slow to get going each morning
- Swollen ankles by evening
- Aches with no clear reason
- Sore for days after a workout
- Aching after a short walk
- Saying no to things you love
Aching like this isn’t just part of life. There’s usually a reason.
Your joints hurt. The cause is often elsewhere in your body.
Joint care usually focuses on the joint itself, so what keeps it inflamed can get missed.
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Food
Sugar, alcohol or a food your body doesn’t tolerate can keep inflammation going. Eat them every day and your joints don’t get the chance to settle.
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Gut
Bloated or uncomfortable after meals? If your gut struggles with what you eat, inflammation can keep running all day, and your joints feel it.
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Nutrients
Your joints rely on nutrients like vitamin D and magnesium to repair everyday wear. If you’re low, small strains can take longer to heal.
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Liver
Your liver clears out waste your body has finished with. If it’s under strain, inflammation can linger and aches take longer to ease.
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Stress
Long-term stress and too little rest keep your body on high alert, and aches and swelling struggle to settle.
You’ve probably tried some of these.
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You’ve done what you were told. Nobody looked past the joint.
Your sore joints may be where inflammation shows up first.
Most joint care works on the spot that hurts: a pill, an ice pack, a shot. That can bring real relief. But if something elsewhere keeps feeding the inflammation, the ache returns once the relief wears off.
Inflammation can run through your whole body, not just one joint. Foods your body reacts to, a struggling gut, low nutrients and long-term stress can all keep it going, and your joints are often where you feel it most.
- What you feelKnees and hips that ache, and ankles that swell by evening
- What’s driving itInflammation kept running by foods your body reacts to
- Where it startsA gut that struggles with what you eat, day after day
So we look past the sore joint to what keeps it inflamed.
Find what’s keeping it inflamed. Then calm it down.
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Test properly.
How inflamed your body is, possible food triggers, gut, nutrients, liver and stress, all checked together.
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Find the pattern.
You see what’s keeping the inflammation going, and why the same joint keeps flaring.
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Build your plan.
Custom supplements, a curriculum and 1:1 coaching for four months, working around what you can do now.
Meet Dr. Anthony Alphonso and the Back to Wellness team.
We’re a functional medicine practice for people who’ve been told they’re fine but still don’t feel it. Anthony has been in practice since 2007.
It started with his son, whose eczema and gut trouble weren’t getting better with the usual treatment. Anthony went looking further than he’d been trained to, finished his functional medicine training in 2009, and watched his son’s health turn around. He’s been doing the same for patients ever since.
- Since 2007in clinical practice
- NY, SC & FLlicensed in all three
- 5.027 Google reviews
What makes us different.
Managing symptoms
- Each joint treated on its own
- “It’s just wear and tear”
- Rest it and see
- Waiting for the next flare
Finding the root cause
- Testing for what drives inflammation
- Gut, nutrients and liver, read together
- A plan built on your results
- Working toward doing what you love
If you saw yourself in that list, start with a call.
It’s free, it takes 15 minutes, and it’s the quickest way to find out whether we can help. Here’s how it goes:
- You tell us what’s been going on, and what you’ve tried.
- We tell you honestly whether we can help.
- You leave knowing your next step, either way.
No cost and no obligation.
From patients who’d learned to live with it.
“I’m 60 pounds lighter (and losing)… and have ZERO joint pain. Swelling in ankles and feet are gone…”
“I had resigned myself to thinking this was just something I would just have to bear in life… Given time… my neck and back pain disappeared completely.”
“Before going to Dr. Alphonso I had dealt with chronic indigestion and joint pain… I could enjoy exercising again.”
“For years I have struggled with eating right and feeling sick and tired all the time. Aches and pains for no reason.”
“It was well worth the Investment.”
“My energy level is back and I am enjoying all my activities…”
If any of this sounds like you, we’d love to hear your story. It starts with a free 15-minute call.
Book your free call
“I saw myself unable to get out into the woods, on the trails playing disc golf…”
“The swelling in my body has gone down to the point where my knee is rarely inflamed and full of fluid.”
She and her husband are back on the disc golf field playing 18 holes, and hiking and doing yoga too.
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“I saw myself unable to get out into the woods, on the trails playing disc golf… I saw myself with a knee replacement which I never want to go through.”
“Doctors kept giving me more and more medications and I was not getting any better with multiple symptoms, multiple problems.”
“The swelling in my body has gone down to the point where my knee is rarely inflamed and full of fluid… my husband and I get out on the disc golf field and do 18 holes, we are hiking, doing yoga, we’re even going to set up an exercise studio in our basement.”
Patient stories are individual experiences. Results vary from person to person.
The questions everyone asks.
But isn’t it just wear and tear?
Some of it may be. Inflammation often adds to it, and that part can be looked into. Plenty of our patients were told the same thing and found more going on.
But I don’t have time for this.
The first step is a 15-minute call. After that, coaching fits around your week, all from home.
But do I have to stop my painkillers?
No. Please don’t change anything on your own. We work alongside your physician, and any decision about medication stays between you and them.
But will insurance cover it?
No. Our patients invest in the program directly, and we walk you through everything on the call so there are no surprises.
But what if it’s something serious?
See your doctor right away if a joint is suddenly hot, red and swollen, follows a fall, or comes with a fever. Back pain with leg weakness or numbness, or bladder or bowel changes, needs the ER.
Ready when you are.
Book your free 15-minute call5.0 stars from 27 Google reviews.
“For years I have struggled with eating right and feeling sick and tired all the time. Aches and pains for no reason.”
“It was well worth the Investment.”
“My energy level is back and I am enjoying all my activities…”
“I’ve learned that I was in a Sick-care system, not a Health-care system.”
“…I’ve seen better sleep, more stamina and energy and better emotional health.”
“I came to them after being a nurse for over 40 years and seeing what the Health Care System DOESN’T do for our Health.”
“I have balanced gut health, sleep well, have regular and easy digestion.”
“Remarkable how life can change so dramatically in only 3 months!”
“I was tired all the time, body aches, heart palpitations and overall felt unwell.”
“I continue to go see him and he has uncovered a lot of underlying issues… My overall health has significantly improved after going to see him and taking his advice.”
“I have lost weight, and I am eating healthier. I am feeling good my overall health is improving.”
“By putting myself first my total mindset has changed, and I’ve learned how to take care for me.”
“I have been a patient of Dr. Alphonso’s for over 13 years and he has helped me tremendously with all of my health concerns.”
“My husband and I get out on the disc golf field and do 18 holes, we are hiking, doing yoga.”
Patient stories are individual experiences. Results vary from person to person.