It's really this simple...
This is not medical advice.
I’m not gonna say every case is this simple. We see stroke patients and people with Parkinson’s, etc. But there is a very high percentage of my caseload that is preventable pain.
Picture in your head, that skeleton on the right, trying to walk down the street. You already realize it wouldn’t work. Bones are just resting on top of each other. There are some tendons, ligaments and capsules to help hold things together, however the muscles do most of the work.
The shoulder and hip joints are just a ball in a socket, and the sockets are very shallow and poor. They’re more like a parentheses, than a C shape. The knee joint is just one bone balancing on top of another bone. Without muscle tone, it all falls apart.
Many patients I see are mystified as to why they hurt or have pain, yet are sitting most of the day, not using these muscles, or braces.
The industry likes to band aide each problem with meds, tape, shots, surgery (cutting things)…etc.
And I know some of you are thinking that you don’t look like you have the muscles of the picture on the left. But that’s not true. We all have the same muscles. Some of us just have extra padding over and on top of those muscles, so they are hard to see.
And not all fat is bad. Sometimes it is beneficial.
I don’t see body builders as patients. The only time I do is when they overdue weightlifting to an extreme. They just aren’t susceptible to tendonitis. Their muscles are strong enough to overcome forces in their environment.
Tendonitis is weakness.
Working these muscles helps prevent you from having pain. Usually the pain arises because the muscles aren’t strong enough to hold the joint in a normal alignment.
When you see us, it’s because you haven’t done enough strengthening to prevent these problems. We are seeing you after the fact.
The USA just hit a debt milestone of $35 trillion. Our healthcare spending is borrowed money.
Do you think Medicare physical therapy will always be available?
Mike, human anatomy is something that always surprises me in its complexity. I wish more is understood about it. I appreciate this read. Hope you’re well this week? Cheers, -Thalia