Will Harlow

Now we know that you can have pain in the absence of injury and you can have an injury in the absence of pain.

So the actual injury itself is a poor predictor of how much a person is gonna suffer.

We even see this with people with almost no cartilage left in their joints.

You put them through an x-ray machine for another reason, you say, how does it hurt?

And they're like, no, it's fine.

You've got no cartilage, you're bone on bone, but they don't have pain.

And the reason they don't have pain, I would argue, is that their mechanics were still pretty good around that knee.

So there wasn't stress going through the joint as much as someone else who did have the pain.

So in answer to your question, biomechanics are so important.

And when I look at someone's joint and I'm looking at the biomechanics and how to fix it, it often starts with the muscles.

So I'll look at what those muscles are doing to protect that joint.

Because your muscles are like your joints bodyguards.

That's their job.

Their job is to reduce stress and strain on the joint tissue itself.

Because we've got cartilage in our joints and it does a pretty damn good job, but it's not designed to take the entire weight of the body every time you move.

You need the muscles to take some of that weight as well.

And if they're not doing their job, that's often the first place I would start.

And then we also want to look beyond that joint itself.

So this is absolutely classic.

And we were speaking about this before we came in.