You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.

I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help

you feel and perform you best, no matter what your hormones are doing.

This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.

Hello, strong, feisty women.

So, as you all know, much of the quote-unquote healthy aging and menopause content out there is directed toward the general population, right?

And as we know, the general population is not terribly active.

And, well, we are terribly active.

And we want to stay that way.

And one of the biggest obstacles that active women

run into during this time of life is joint pain and connective tissue injury. So the advice that we get

that we should maintain the minimum amount of exercise and just make sure to move our bodies

really doesn't apply to us. So I was very psyched to sit down with Dr. Vonda Wright, who is a powerhouse

in the field of orthopedics and active people. Dr. Vonda is a board certified, she's actually a

double board certified orthopedic surgeon, elite sports doc, a public speaker, a multiple time published author,

a biotech consultant, a health innovator, I could go on and on. She's a firecracker.

And her mission is to understand the causes of joint pain, ways we can improve our joint health,

and how to stay active and fit as we age.

She's also extremely well versed in the menopause transition.

So we talked all about the orthopedic concerns I hear so frequently in the membership

and in the social media channels, such as menopause joint pain in that connection, which

some people refer to as menopause arthritis, which isn't really the proper terminology,

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