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Stuart Dupuy, Entrepreneur

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I am 45 years old and athletic, as I enjoy competing in mountain bike races and triathlons. I have noticed minor hip pain for several years, but starting about 3 years ago the pain in my left hip began to progress, and my mobility decrease, until I was at the point where I could not tie my left shoe, or cut my left toe nails.

I tried yoga, forcing my hip to do what it would not. My back became more flexible, but my hip locked up and got even worse. I visited an orthopedic surgeon, who gave me a diagnosis of FAI in my left hip, with a torn labrum. The surgeon did not recommend surgery due to my torn labrum, but told me I will likely need full hip replacement in 10 years. He recommended exercises to strengthen my posterior chain to delay that surgery. After this bad news, I spent about 40 hours researching FAI online. I came across Matt Hsu in this process.

His philosophy resonated with me, and I decided to give it a shot, so I purchased the FAI Fix, and began the program. I hired a ...

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Supriya Friend

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I have been doing the FAI Fix for about 6 weeks. I have seen tremendous improvement. My hip pain is next to nothing!

In this photo I am gardening. Gardening was a big motivator for me to get beyond FAI — which I feel I have! I have gone beyond thanks to what your program shared (through strengthening and tissue work mostly). The best thing seems to be that I don’t feel powerless or afraid with pain anymore. Before I felt that all I could do is pop a pain pill and numb out for relief. The doctor said surgery was my only option.

I am so grateful to both of you – for your perseverance in your own healing and then service in sharing what you’ve learned. I really had no hope before I found the FAI Fix…

I appreciate you both answering my questions and concerns. I feel totally supported in this process, and unafraid of the different experiences my body has in this healing, reactivating process. This is new for me and it is wonderful to be so in touch with my body.

All the best to all of y...

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Paul Borda

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At 22 years old, I was diagnosed with FAI in both hips (cam and pincer) as well as having small bilateral labral tears. I was diagnosed in June of 2015 and in the months after that I saw two of the best hip specialists in North Carolina. I was told by both doctors that arthroscopic hip surgery was the only way to really get rid of the issues in my hips. After that news I felt pretty hopeless and demoralized because most of us are taught to believe these doctors because of the MD and the white coats that they wear. Over that summer my pain and dysfunction in my hips was mild but I knew something was not quite right. I had tight hips as well as some lower back pain and this uncomfortable pinching feeling just inside my hip flexors on the inside part of my thighs.

So I started searching for answers online in hopes there would be another alternative. For me, it was such a stroke of luck that I came across Matt and Shane’s program, and I can tell you that I am forever grateful that I did...

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Daniel Bonvell

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First, let me thank you guys for doing what you do. Shane’s youtube video comparing shoulder impingement to the hips was the gold nugget I’ve been searching for. I watched the interview Shane had with Richard L and I immediately purchased the FAI fix and was up till at least till 2am; I read through everything and started deep tissue and stretches that night or morning. Best sleep I’ve gotten in a long time.

I’m 29 now and grew up playing a lot of sports but where I think it all started was from rollerblading. I played a lot of roller hockey and I would pivot my left leg sideways and drag the skate to slow down/stop. By the time I was a junior in high school, I noticed a tightness in the groin area on my left side. Never hurt, just tight. Stretches never really made it go away so I dealt with it.

By the time I was 20ish, I bought my first 5 speed camaro with a clutch. Few months after that I noticed now the left side of my hip felt tight all the time. I had been working at a pizza sh...

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Yannick Wolf

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I am a 19-year-old soccer player who played his whole youth at German first Division Team (Eintracht Frankfurt) and also played for all German Youth National teams. My problems with FAI started when I was just 16 years old! My pain went away, but I always felt not really comfortable with my hips. In March 2015 the situation was so bad I had to stop playing soccer and was not able to live my normal life!

I went to hundreds of doctors, specialists and stuff all around in Germany, but then I saw Shane’s and Matt’s YouTube channels and realized they really know what they’re talking about. The first 3 days using the FAI Fix program were incredible. I felt NO PAIN in my right hip anymore, after just 3 days of work! Then I did too much and some things too fast and I felt bad again. But little by little I got to know my body more and recovered.

The program is very easy to understand, well structured and effective. The best thing is I realized what was “wrong” with my body all the years, and...

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Alexander Garber

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This is a quick note to say thank you for the FAI Fix and the superb resources, especially on YouTube. Ever since I started following the FAI Fix and the FAI Fix for Athletes, I have enjoyed heretofore unimaginable improvements in my mobility — glutes, adductors, hamstrings, quads, calves, external hip rotators, TFL, lower back, shoulders — and have really no need anymore of physiotherapy, massage, chiropractic, etc.

I had a diagnosis of FAI from a sports clinic that treats professional athletes and from my doctor, on the basis of X-ray and MRI results. I naively followed your “quackery” to the letter, doing tissue work, stretching, and activation 6-7 times a week. Unfortunately for the wallets of all medical specialists involved, my journey down the FAI Fix garden path eliminated all my FAI symptoms in two months. I am now working on strength, conditioning, loaded stretching, and plan to return to parkour.

My motto these days is this: “I don’t need therapy, I just need a kettlebel...

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Frederic T.

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I am a 35 year old software engineer living in Paris, France. I started practicing Taekwondo 10 years ago. After a year and a half, I began feeling light pain in both hips during specific movements. I thought it was just some muscle soreness since it was not very painful. So I ignored the pain and continued my intense training.

As time passed, I began feeling more and more discomfort. With enough warm up, I was able to manage the pain during training and competitions.

Then, 3 years ago, even after stretching and warming up, I was feeling really sharp pains during high turning kicks and other specific movements. It was so painful I had to stop competing. That’s when I decided to see the family doctor.

He thought it was hip flexor tendinopathy. So he prescribed 20 physiotherapy sessions. The PT, ultra sound massages, stretches, and muscle strengthening barely helped, and I felt little improvement in my pain.

Then I began feeling pain even outside of sports. It was noticeable wh

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Cameron B.

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I’ve always been a pretty active person playing various sports on land and water. Thinking back, I first recall the onset of intermittent hip/groin issues around 2000/2001. At this time, I was enjoying a 6 year stint playing field hockey, along with regular tempo runs 45-50 minutes about 2-3 times a week. The odd groin strain, tight hip flexors and rising lower abdominal pain eventually led to a sports medical prognosis and treatment for Osteitis Pubis (OP). At the time, the prescribed 3-6 month recovery program never quite delivered. Then, work commitments with extensive international air travel took over my life and competitive sports went on the back burner, as did regular running. The hip/groin related aggravation disappeared and I never gave it much thought until sometime after my return to running in 2010.

Thanks to Chris McDougall’s “Born to Run”, I began to rediscover “the joy of running”. I gradually built a base of fitness and endurance. After 6-8 months I was happily mana...

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Mary M.

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I am a distance runner with right FAI cam type. I am 6 weeks into the FAI fix program and have made more progress than the previous 10 months of physical therapy.

When I was diagnosed with FAI and a labral tear I was hopeful that I would be a surgical candidate in spite of already having mild arthritis in my hip. The surgeon that made the diagnosis is an expert in FAI arthroscopic procedures. He told me that I would be better off doing deep tissue work and strengthening since there was a significant chance the surgery would not resolve all the symptoms.

I have been working with 2 physical therapists, a chiropractor/ART and a personal trainer. While I appreciate the help I have gotten from each one of them, it was one of the therapists who said it best that what I needed was for someone to “put all the pieces together and there just isn’t anyone who does that”.

So thank you guys for “putting it all together” because your plan appears to be working for me.

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Neil M., Retired Police Officer

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Original Message March 2016 :

I just thought I would give you some feedback. I have moderate arthritis, FAI, and bursitis and a very tight hip. It’s been very painful. As a police officer wearing weapons, etc. on a belt around my waist for 30 + years, I was struggling.

I have had a cortisone shot to help with the bursa and have been following your program for about 3 weeks. The cortisone worked pretty well straight away on the bursa pain, but the bursa pain was apparently separate from the pinching in the front of my hip and the SI joint moving poorly and causing jabbing pain in my lower back.

Since I have been doing the FAI Fix, the pinching pain and SI joint pain has improved significantly. Another plus, I can now bend over all the way to put on socks, tie shoes, etc. without the need to use a step. The results are really encouraging so far. I am not limping as much and the pain is reducing markedly.

I am very impressed to say the least.

Update January 2017:

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