Shari Miller

Board-certified orthopedic specialist. I fix what rest couldn't.

Your knee or ankle shouldn't be what you plan your whole day around. I help active people: runners, hikers, parents, professionals get back to moving without modifying everything around pain.I'm Dr Shari: Doctor of Physical Therapy, Board certified orthopedic specialist, former civilian PT with 101st Airborne and 15+ year specialist in knee and ankle pain. I've helped athletes run Boston. I've helped people carry laundry on stairs again. Both wins count equally here.Rest didn't fix it. Let's get it a plan.

You've probably described your knee pain to someone before — a doctor, a friend, maybe yourself at midnight while Googling symptoms. And it probably still feels like a mystery.These 5 physical tests take 5–7 minutes and give you something most people never get: actual data about your own knee. Not a quiz. Not a symptom checklist.You'll move, load, and rate your knee through the patterns that reveal exactly where it's compensating and why. A board-certified orthopedic specialist designed these tests for one reason — because you can't fix what you haven't honestly assessed. This is where that starts.

Most knee advice tells you what to do. Almost none of it tells you why your body is doing what it's doing — and that gap is exactly why people stay stuck.3 Steps Forward is a free Saturday newsletter from Dr. Shari, board-certified orthopedic specialist, that closes that gap in three moves every week: one exercise, one habit, one body lesson that actually explains what's happening inside your knee and what to do next.It takes five minutes to read.It's the thing your doctor's appointment never had time for.