What many people fail to recognize until it is too late is that they are slowly destroying their hip or knee joints from not moving enough or moving very poorly. At first they don’t have any pain just some slight awkwardness or weakness but after doing this for so long eventually they hit 40, their joints have become so stiff to protect them from more damage that they can barely move. Resting and use of NSAID’s or cortisone injections are regularly used to get rid of the pain and reduce the inflammation. However while these methods might actually achieve that goal they do not address the weakness and instability that was causing the pain in the first place. (See the article about cortisone injections for more detail on this.) For many surgery may seem like the best solution, and perhaps it is if the problem has become so great they cannot move. Yet I have met several people in their late 40’s and early 50’s who could have tried exercise intervention but chose to have a knee replacement instead only to be left in more pain than they had before the operation. Or worse still, developed other injuries and complications as a result of the surgery! In this article we look at the reasons behind chronic problems at the hip and the knee and what you can do about it and try to avoid surgery if you can. Sometimes it may be all you can do, but it should be the last resort and the only option left after all alternatives have been tried first.
Do We Rely Too Much On Scientific Research & Surgery To Fix Chronic Injuries?
One thing that has been a constant problem for me over the years is explaining to medical practitioners our methods for helping people to overcome serious injuries and regain their life. The very first thing they say is that there is no scientific research to support your findings. There has been several great books and articles that have explored this topic before which I will share in this article but I have posed this question as it relates more specifically to our training studio based in Melbourne Australia. Even though many of our programs and methods are based on research papers and studies, and we have hundreds of testimonials and even case studies that have proven these to work for a long time (over 20 years now), we are still looked upon as something of a rogue and not validated due to a lack of medical qualifications. Even Google rates my articles very poorly even when I can prove it works. Google has a hard time understanding how a particular injury can relate to so many things as they prefer to have an algorithm that gives a specialist answer. And unfortunately it is not just Google who thinks like this as this is the thinking applied by most people and is supported by research that also uses this same reasoning. I must make it clear we use scientific research all the time and most of our programs are based upon this, however, it is through practical application that all of our best solutions have been discovered. This article I wish to explain how we currently use research and the danger we place by relying too much on what science has to say.