The Muscle Whisperer | Here to educate, entertain and eradicate that pain! | IG: OfficialDannyShapiro
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How people who’ve had pain for years get out of it...
They move before they feel ready.
They stop waiting for a “good” day.
They stop rereading the MRI report.
They train the mind and the body.
They don’t look at every flare-up as a set-back.
Believe in your body’s ability to change and keep on pushing forward
A lot of people think pain automatically means damage.
Sometimes it means your nervous system got overprotective.
Sometimes it means you stopped moving and your body craves action.
Sometimes it means you've been scared of your own body for years.
The joints and tissue could be fine but you were convinced to back off
Put the “this seems counterintuitive” thoughts aside and get moving. It doesn’t have to feel perfect or be perfect.
JUST START MOVING AND DON’T STOP!
“Bone on bone."
Three words and people stop walking, stop squatting, and start treating their knee
like it's made of glass…
That phrase describes one thing: the space between two bones on an x-ray. But did you know that you can be “bone on bone” and be PAIN-FREE?
Researchers scanned 230 knees of 115 people with ZERO knee pain. 97% had "findings." 30% had meniscal tears. 57% had cartilage damage at the kneecap.
Let go of the label and focus on pushing FUNCTION!
101 postmenopausal women with low bone density were put in a randomized trial. Average age 65.
Half did heavy barbell training. Deadlifts, squats, overhead press. Five sets of five reps at over 85% of their max. 2x/week, 30 minutes.
The other half did a gentle home program.
The heavy lifting group INCREASED spine bone density by 2.9%. The gentle group LOST 1.2%.
They got stronger.
Every single functional test improved.
Your body is NOT fragile!! Stop treating it that way!
Researchers pooled 31 studies of people with lumbar disc herniations who were treated without surgery, then scanned them again later to see what happened.
And guess what… The disc issues SHRANK.
The conclusion:
Bulging discs regressed 13% of the time.
Protrusions 41%.
Extrusions 70%.
And sequestered discs, the ones where material breaks off completely and looks the most catastrophic on a scan, regressed
96% of the time.
The worse it looks, the more likely your body is to clean it up!
Someone telling you that you have arthritis is like someone telling me I have brown hair.
Okay. And?
After about age 20 to 30, everyone starts developing arthritis. Just at different times and
different speeds. EVERYONE!
Disc herniations, normal. Stenosis, normal. Labrum tears, normal. Degenerative disc disease isn't even really a disease, it's arthritis with a scarier name attached to it.
Arthritic changes aren’t a death sentence. It’s often not even the source of pain!
Researchers did MRIs on 230 knees of 115 completely PAIN-FREE adults. No injuries. No complaints. Nothing wrong.
97% of those knees showed abnormalities 30% had meniscal tears. 57% had cartilage damage at the kneecap. 48% had bone marrow changes.
These are people living their lives with knees full of “findings” that a doctor would point at and say “there’s your problem.” And yet, there’s NO PAIN!
An MRI finding is not a diagnosis. It’s just a picture and it doesn’t always tell the whole story
Researchers took 100 people with a suspected meniscal tear in one knee and did MRIs on BOTH knees. The painful one and the pain-free one.
63% of the people who had a tear on their painful side also had a tear on their completely pain-free side.
Same type of tear. Same location. One knee hurt. The other didn’t.
Your “bad” knee and your “good” knee often look exactly the same on imaging. The tear isn’t always what’s causing your pain. And cutting it out won’t always fix it…
About 2/3 of disc herniations physically resorb on their own! Your body sends immune cells to break down the herniated material and reabsorb it. It’s called phagocytosis and it’s confirmed across multiple studies.
And you know what’s crazy? The WORSE the herniation looks on MRI, the MORE likely it is to resorb. Sequestered discs, the scariest looking ones, resorb 93% of the time.
Your body was designed to heal but nobody really tells you that before recommending surgery huh…
Almost half of US doctors say their training in chronic pain management was unsatisfactory.
The average medical student gets 11 hours of pain education across their ENTIRE degree. 11 hours out of 6,000+.
So the person you’re trusting with your pain barely learned how to treat it. They don’t have the tools. They don’t have the time. And the system they work in doesn’t reward them for figuring it out.
And somehow YOU’RE the difficult patient?
If you can anticipate negative outcomes, why not anticipate positive ones?
Because believing your body CAN’T get better is just as much of a prediction as believing it CAN.
One leads to pulling back, avoiding, and staying stuck. The other leads to action, progress, and change.
Both are thoughts about your future. Only one of them actually moves you forward…
Your nervous system responds to EVERYTHING.
Your stress. Your sleep. Your mood. Your relationships. Your beliefs about your own body.
It takes ALL of that information and decides how much danger you’re in.