Does physical therapy work to fix hip labral tears? How effective is surgery for hip labral tears? This hip labrum tear research study claims that arthroscopic surgery is more effective for hip labrum tears than physical therapy, but the study is plagued with problems. It had a very high crossover rate, a terrible physical therapy protocol for hip pain, and massive problems with bias in how the study was constructed. Even so, the study still showed that surgery for hip labrum tears is largely ineffective.

In this video you'll learn four key tips that will improve your bowel movements. If you have watery poo, have trouble pooing (constipation), or you feel like it takes forever for you to poo, this video will help. If you want to make sure you don't hurt your body with long poos, this video will also help you maintain strength in your hips and abs!

Matt discusses Katy Bowman's Move Your DNA, flaccid fin syndrome, and the realities of modern life working at a computer all day.

This is a deep dive into the Personalized Hip Therapy protocol which was used in the UK's FASHION Trial for Hip Impingement. This physical therapy protocol was designed by an orthopedic surgeon and several physical therapists to be used in randomized controlled trials to compare physical therapy with hip surgery. Because the PHT protocol has poor exercise selection, bad advice about pain killers, and a focus on the cam and pincer bone shapes, it fails to provide any real benefit for patients. As a result, the nonsurgical FAI treatment failed to do better than hip surgery (even though hip surgery did poorly too).

In this video, I'll talk about why RIIPS (Rest, Ice, Injections, Pills, and Surgery) are not your only options to relieve shoulder pain or to fix your shoulder impingement. Follow along with me as I walk you through 5 great exercises to help your shoulders feel good in the long run. This video will show you how to stretch a sneaky hidden muscle, the subscapularis. This can improve your shoulder mobility and relieve shoulder pain like magic.

Doctors claim that surgery for hip impingement is more effective than nonsurgical alternatives for FAI. This groundbreaking 2018 study claims that surgery for FAI is better than physical therapy. But when you examine the study carefully, you discover that hip impingement physical therapy and surgery were both ineffective. The real problem is that the FAI physical therapy protocol was designed to be ineffective for many reasons.

This beginner shoulder workout will help you relieve shoulder pain and improve your shoulder mobility. Simple shoulder stretches and strength exercises will establish a better foundation for shoulder health.

This workout will help if you have chronic lower back pain, mid back pain, and/or poor balance. You'll strengthen your hips, stretch your spine, and strengthen your hamstrings and abs. All of these will help you relieve your back pain at home without drugs, pills, or surgery.

If you have trouble standing up straight due to lower back pain, I've got some at-home exercises for you. The exercises in this video will help you to stretch and strengthen the muscles you need to get you to standing up all the way.

Is surgery for FAI better than physical therapy? Does physical therapy or surgery work better fix hip impingement? Papers like this 2020 meta analysis claim that surgery works better for hip pain sufferers, but when you dig deeper into the literature, the truth becomes a lot more clear. A web of bias and financial incentives skew orthopedic research on FAI to make surgery look far better than it actually is.