Are orthopedic surgeons evil? Are surgeons bad people? Let's talk about the truth about orthopedic surgeons.
Walking should feel natural and relaxed. You should feel symmetrical and balanced. You should not be twisting, turning, limping, or hunching while walking. You should feel your butt, hamstrings, and calf muscles working when you walk. If you feel like your neck and shoulders hurt after walking, you have some work to do! Walking properly for long distances is good for your mind and body. Remember that human beings are designed / have evolved to walk long distances on a regular basis!
Falling backwards can result in serious injury if you don't know what you're doing. To protect your head, make sure you keep your chin tucked and try to fall in a way that keeps your head away from the ground. Falling diagonally helps accomplish this. Rotate your body to dissipate the impact of your fall to a larger surface area. Make sure to use your arm and hand to break the fall.
Exercises to strengthen your upper body and lower will help you fall without injury. Be sure to build up enough strength and stability so you can absorb impact without serious injury.
If you build strength in your arms, shoulders, and chest, you'll be able to fall forward more safely. The key is to be able to catch the weight of your body in a push-up. The other option when falling forward is to do a roll to disperse the force of the impact and turn into movement. As you get confident in your strength, you can start to practice forward falls from a low height, and then gradually increase the height. Make sure you always start on a soft surface so you don't hurt yourself as you practice your breakfall.
Take a deep dive into the evidence surrounding hip injections and femoroacetabular impingement surgery. Surgeons believe hip impingement is 90% accurate for identifying hip pathology. The evidence they use is flat out wrong. Hip injections are also a bad predictor for outcomes of hip surgery for FAI.
Having weak butt muscles can cause hip pain and knee pain. In this video, I explain my own personal history with strong butt muscles, weak butt muscles, and I show you glute exercises you can do at home to strengthen your glutes. If you've got weak glutes, sleepy glutes, or "gluteal amnesia," this video will help you activate your glutes!
If you want to fix chronic joint pain, you must change your mindset. You cannot rely on OTHERS to find the root cause of your problems. You must take the responsibility on yourself to make sense of your body and its needs. That is the only way to learn how to fix your body for the long run.
Matt Hsu reacts to a GotROM.com video with Ankush. Ankush was told he would need hip surgery to fix his hip pain and protrusio acetabuli. The surgeon told him he would need to stop using hips and expect to get hip replacement surgery to fix his pain. He fixed his hip pain with exercise and continues to get stronger every day.
In Zhu, et al. "Conservative therapy versus arthroscopic surgery of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAI): a systematic review and meta-analysis" researchers use statistical tricks to make surgery for femoroacetabular impingement seem better than nonsurgical treatment. When you look closer, however, you'll discover that the paper is built on shoddy statistical analysis and fundamental mistakes that the researchers and the journal editors should have caught. Multiple quality problems plague this paper, and neither the researchers, peer reviewers, or editors caught any of these egregious errors.
Orthopedic surgeons claim that arthroscopic hip surgery will protect your hip joint from further damage. A 2021 paper showed that hip surgery to fix hip impingement actually resulted in worsening of the hip cartilage compared to patients who did not get surgery.
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