Joint Replacement surgeries are quite popular. Joints are often replaced when bones are pulled closer and closer together grinding cartilage. The most common explanation I’ve heard for this is genetics, implying that because your father had his hip replaced you probably will as well. Or, blaming it on too much of any one activity. Another common belief is because you had one joint replaced, the other will have to be replaced also. I’m not saying any of this is untrue. I’m saying there is an explanation to this phenomenon and the progression can be stopped.
Take a desk worker using a mouse all day for many years of their life, and years later they’re having to have their shoulder replaced. Think about what the body is really going through. The dominant activity is holding onto a mouse and making subtle movements with the wrist. Never fully flexing or extending the wrist through its entire range of motion, always staying in the middle. Eventually the action of merely opening the hand fully extending the fingers becomes difficult. The strength curve of a muscle looks like a bell indicating the weakest part of the muscle is at its shortest and longest positions. We’re always strong in the middle. Once blood flow is restricted, the muscle loses its ability to generate tension at the ends and reverts to the middle. As each muscle reverts to the middle, the ends of each bone are pulled closer to each other, creating compression. The ball of the humerus is now cramming into the socket crushing cartilage. Activities such as golf, tennis or working out will cause a shearing action shredding up that cartilage. Yes, the chain of events can be reversed but that won’t bring back damaged cartilage. Once a doctor sees its bone-on-bone, the quickest way is to just replace it, go through PT, and then reverse the path of muscular breakdown and stop progression so a second replacement can be avoided. Without reversing the breakdown path, the other shoulder will have to be replaced in the body’s efforts to establish equilibrium. We can establish and maintain equilibrium before it gets that far. To avoid being repetitive, read the pages titled “Program” and “Process” to understand how the nervous system manages processes within the body, why muscles break down, and how Rapid Recovery Performance can reverse joint range of motion changes to restore blood flow read pages titled “Program” and “Process.”
The most successful joint replacement client I’ve had is Jim Radebaugh, his testimony can be seen in my video. He lost an eye when he was 10 years old causing him to contort his body to maximize his peripheral vision his entire life. This led to having his right shoulder, right hip and finally left hip to be replaced, respectively. I referred Jim to my chiropractor a year ago. X-rays showed he had a curvature of the spine 2.85cm away from the middle. His head was positioned well over his chest and his spine was also fixed in a twisted position. Together, we were able to get his spine to move back 2.65cm towards center line and returning his head back properly over his shoulders in 12 months. An increase in the distance in the spacing between each vertebra was clearly visible. Too bad the before and after comparison x-rays could not be found, they were quite amazing. He can do an overhead squat with perfection, hips below knees. His left shoulder has no restriction and doesn’t have any discomfort issues anywhere, at all. Jim has been seeing me for 12 years, 3 days a week. He’s 71 and can continue to contort his body to max out his peripheral vision with ease like he’s 30.
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