FAI is an acronym for Femoroacetabular Impingement. From Wikipedia, "Femoroacetabular impingement is a condition involving one or more anatomical abnormalities of the hip joint, which is a ball and socket joint. It is a common cause of hip pain and discomfort in young and middle-aged adults. It occurs when the ball shaped femoral head contacts the acetabulum abnormally or does not permit a normal range of motion in the acetabular socket."
Subscribed! I signed up for Healthy Hips and have begun my journey. I'm praying that with consistency and dedication that this will turn things around for me. My 2 year old son deserves a Mom that isn't in pain and can keep up with him. I was given the congenital deformity FAI diagnosis on my left side and feared surgery was my only route and I'm only 35. I have a desk job and have had a desk job for the past 13 years. My body and muscles are weak and I'm sure atrophy has settled in. That stops now. Thank you, Matt.
I'm in the UK, and had arthroscopy to reshape the bone (fai) and clean out torn cartilege. 5 years later, I have rapid onset osteoarthritis in that hip, I can't tie my own shoelaces on that side and now require a total hip replacement, which is scheduled for a few months from now. I wish I'd found you first, instead of two surgeries, I'd probably have had none!
After going down the "bad bone shape" rabbit hole, my GP, physio, surgeon 1 and surgeon 2, have ALL been successfully convinced that 'bad bone shapes' are all the cause. My GP and physio, had no clue about FAI, or bad bone shapes before hand. I rabbit holed it, brought them the 'theory', talked to them about it, and after that, I could not convince them that 'bad bones shapes' was only one theory, and not the cause. Literally, neither one of them would be convinced otherwise. Physio, and GP also said to stop playing sports, and "now we know the cause." So....if you are going to convince people that bad bone shapes don't matter, you have a long way to go in this fight. I am watchfully waiting, and continuing to think muscles, and only time will sort this out.
That's because the surgeons who popularized this surgery in the 2000s published tons of papers citing their OWN papers to support their theories. Few doctors have the time or willingness to actually go down the rabbit hole of papers and seek out the research. At best, they read abstracts which are horrendously misleading. I've been in this fight for over ten years now and plan to continue. 😀 I've had surgeons actually tell people to watch some of my videos and use my programs because there are 'concerns' about the efficacy of these surgeries. So that's at least a few wins. The big fight is that it's BIG BUSINESS for surgeons and hospitals and device manufacturers (and insurance companies and even PTs) so it's no nobody's financial interest to change the conventional "wisdom" on this.
@@Uprighthealth I became more concerned as consensus was building, and even alarmed of the consensus, because literally everything has pros and cons, and surgery usually is a really mixed bag, with a lot of known unknowns, and probably a fair amount of straight up luck. You might be the guy who wins, or maybe you would win without it. Knee surgery, especially meniscus surgery tends to be the most comparable, probably besides shoulder. Until they can clone your meniscus, and slide a new one in, it's unlikely that stitching up a tear is going to help. Soft tissue preservation is key. Removing tissues doesn't help protect bone...it simply removes any extra cushioning. Surgeon 1 said 9/10 were satisfied, but was most balanced in that he said he wouldn't do anything until it was fully symptomatic, that it was invasive, and complicated surgery. But still seemed fairly certain that it was necessary. In Canada, here, there is not much incentive to lie, or push surgeries, so generally we don't...but this one seems pretty catchy still. Even the GP gave me an extensive doctor grade hand out (like a cheat sheet for docs), and it cam deformities was listed as a nearly definitive risk factor for hip OA. GP also said the more he looked into this, the more he found it to correlate. So I'm keeping an open mind.
@@TheWoodedBeardsman Your GP most definitely never read more than the abstracts or the cheat sheet site that doctors use (like uptodate) which just give a topline summary and don't truly investigate things. Go through references here. See if your GP will actually READ them critically. www.uprighthealth.com/fai-bone-shapes
@@TheWoodedBeardsman As for there being no incentive to push surgeries, I unfortunately don't think that's true. Hospitals get their budgets allocated based on how busy they are and how complex their offerings are...the more you're doing orthopedic surgeries, the more expert your staff and facilities are at doing special procedures, the more revenue you need/generate. It's not the same as in the U.S. but salaries absolutely depend on more surgeries. The UK has a public health system and a lot of the garbage studies proposing clinically significant change come from teams of UK surgeon/researchers.
Equally or even greater disturbing is the number of patients who summit to these surgeries who are not physically resolute to withstand the trauma of such an invasive procedure or the anesthesia.
I am pro most surgeries but this surgery is the type of surgery that if you fuse that area without stabilizing all the neck muscles with a good strength training program for your neck that you will just need more and more fused
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What a great service you are providing to people who want to listen!
However, expect the surgery industry to fight back though.
FAI is an acronym for Femoroacetabular Impingement. From Wikipedia, "Femoroacetabular impingement is a condition involving one or more anatomical abnormalities of the hip joint, which is a ball and socket joint. It is a common cause of hip pain and discomfort in young and middle-aged adults. It occurs when the ball shaped femoral head contacts the acetabulum abnormally or does not permit a normal range of motion in the acetabular socket."
And this doesn't even take into account the people who end up unsatisfied a few years after the surgery.
Subscribed! I signed up for Healthy Hips and have begun my journey. I'm praying that with consistency and dedication that this will turn things around for me. My 2 year old son deserves a Mom that isn't in pain and can keep up with him. I was given the congenital deformity FAI diagnosis on my left side and feared surgery was my only route and I'm only 35. I have a desk job and have had a desk job for the past 13 years. My body and muscles are weak and I'm sure atrophy has settled in. That stops now. Thank you, Matt.
I'm in the UK, and had arthroscopy to reshape the bone (fai) and clean out torn cartilege. 5 years later, I have rapid onset osteoarthritis in that hip, I can't tie my own shoelaces on that side and now require a total hip replacement, which is scheduled for a few months from now.
I wish I'd found you first, instead of two surgeries, I'd probably have had none!
thank you for sharing your story and best of luck to you.
@Uprighthealth thanks, I'll be following your back catalog of videos to improve my mobility going forward. Thanks for all you do too brother.
After going down the "bad bone shape" rabbit hole, my GP, physio, surgeon 1 and surgeon 2, have ALL been successfully convinced that 'bad bone shapes' are all the cause. My GP and physio, had no clue about FAI, or bad bone shapes before hand. I rabbit holed it, brought them the 'theory', talked to them about it, and after that, I could not convince them that 'bad bones shapes' was only one theory, and not the cause. Literally, neither one of them would be convinced otherwise. Physio, and GP also said to stop playing sports, and "now we know the cause." So....if you are going to convince people that bad bone shapes don't matter, you have a long way to go in this fight. I am watchfully waiting, and continuing to think muscles, and only time will sort this out.
That's because the surgeons who popularized this surgery in the 2000s published tons of papers citing their OWN papers to support their theories. Few doctors have the time or willingness to actually go down the rabbit hole of papers and seek out the research. At best, they read abstracts which are horrendously misleading.
I've been in this fight for over ten years now and plan to continue. 😀
I've had surgeons actually tell people to watch some of my videos and use my programs because there are 'concerns' about the efficacy of these surgeries. So that's at least a few wins.
The big fight is that it's BIG BUSINESS for surgeons and hospitals and device manufacturers (and insurance companies and even PTs) so it's no nobody's financial interest to change the conventional "wisdom" on this.
@@Uprighthealth I became more concerned as consensus was building, and even alarmed of the consensus, because literally everything has pros and cons, and surgery usually is a really mixed bag, with a lot of known unknowns, and probably a fair amount of straight up luck. You might be the guy who wins, or maybe you would win without it. Knee surgery, especially meniscus surgery tends to be the most comparable, probably besides shoulder. Until they can clone your meniscus, and slide a new one in, it's unlikely that stitching up a tear is going to help. Soft tissue preservation is key. Removing tissues doesn't help protect bone...it simply removes any extra cushioning. Surgeon 1 said 9/10 were satisfied, but was most balanced in that he said he wouldn't do anything until it was fully symptomatic, that it was invasive, and complicated surgery. But still seemed fairly certain that it was necessary. In Canada, here, there is not much incentive to lie, or push surgeries, so generally we don't...but this one seems pretty catchy still. Even the GP gave me an extensive doctor grade hand out (like a cheat sheet for docs), and it cam deformities was listed as a nearly definitive risk factor for hip OA. GP also said the more he looked into this, the more he found it to correlate. So I'm keeping an open mind.
Yeah, asking the wrong questions, not using the correct verbiage, equates to misunderstanding and disappointing outcomes.
@@TheWoodedBeardsman Your GP most definitely never read more than the abstracts or the cheat sheet site that doctors use (like uptodate) which just give a topline summary and don't truly investigate things.
Go through references here. See if your GP will actually READ them critically. www.uprighthealth.com/fai-bone-shapes
@@TheWoodedBeardsman As for there being no incentive to push surgeries, I unfortunately don't think that's true. Hospitals get their budgets allocated based on how busy they are and how complex their offerings are...the more you're doing orthopedic surgeries, the more expert your staff and facilities are at doing special procedures, the more revenue you need/generate. It's not the same as in the U.S. but salaries absolutely depend on more surgeries. The UK has a public health system and a lot of the garbage studies proposing clinically significant change come from teams of UK surgeon/researchers.
Equally or even greater disturbing is the number of patients who summit to these surgeries who are not physically resolute to withstand the trauma of such an invasive procedure or the anesthesia.
You are amazing! Thanks for some truth!
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Danke für deine Unterstützung!
Do your exercises help with hip bone spurs?
Was wondering what you know about shock wave therapy and do you think it's worth the expense.
I know nothing about it. If it's expensive and new, as a general rule I avoid it no matter who's trying to sell it to me.
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Have a herniated disc in my neck, tried therapy for over a year. I'm not better but it helped. They want to fuse c5 and c4. Any advice?
Get a new physical therapist and avoid fusion surgery as long as possible
I am pro most surgeries but this surgery is the type of surgery that if you fuse that area without stabilizing all the neck muscles with a good strength training program for your neck that you will just need more and more fused
aka “Matt explaines how Western medicine works…meaning works for them, not for you.”
Here I was, thinking this was going to be West Wing related.