@A MySpondylitisTeam Member. I had days like that too. It was due to torn hip labrum abd gluteus medius tendon that made it difficult to make my leg move straight forward. My beast is Psoriatic Spondylitis which attacks the tendons, ligaments and cartilage around the joints. The muscle weakness comes from reduction of use as we age, become less mobile due to pain, and the muscles begin to atrophy. It doesn't help that some of the nerves that we use to walk become irritated from the inflammation. I use hiking sticks to help train my ability to walk. This started for me 6 years ago after I became relatively immobile due to using my body less while I sat around, more or less, for 6 months recovering from covid and simultaneously waiting for inept home contractors while getting hurricane damage repaired on our home. It took a couple of years to regain my ability to walk more than a couple hundred yards. I was checked out for MS, Myasthenia Gravis, Parkinsons, and a few others. All Spondylitis injuries for me, none of that other stuff. Today I'm finally back up to 3 miles. I take my hiking sticks with me and open them out to use when pain in my SIs and hips makes walking harder. I have to focus on how I'm using my legs, my posture when I'm working on walking. I can't walk that far daily. It has to be every 3rd day or I re-tear the labrum and gluteus medius tendon. I also have a sizable lesion in the marrow of my trochanter on the same side. Im not sure if that has anything to do with it. There are also nerve sheath tumors in my SIs and cauda equina that probably have something to do with it. I do physical therapy strength training at least 4 days a week. A few years ago we were seriously considering a chairlift or home elevator for our 2 story house. Now i can walk up 20 flights of stairs. It was extremely painful in the beginning. The worst thing we can do for ourselves though is to quit trying. It won't take long to be permanently wheelchair bound at that point. Im younger than you though, maybe when im 70 I'll be ready for that, but i have another decade to go first. I can tell you that I see my 85 or old dad who doesn't have our problems, none of them and never did, and he can barely get out of his chair and use a walker just because he quit walking a mile a day to the gym during covid. For whatever reason, when we quit trying it's all downhill real fast. Give up when you're 6 feet down Steve. Until then, get up, grab some hiking sticks, and make it happen. Yours in better health P 😌 🙏

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