Eva R. (Español)

 

Mi cadera derecha venía molestándome puntualmente desde hacía tiempo, pero debo confesar que no le hice nunca demasiado caso. Al cabo de unos días los dolores remitían y yo seguía con mi vida. Pero en verano de 2016 comenzó a dolerme el cuádriceps de una forma extraña. Al principio era como tener la pierna cansada a todas horas, luego me resentía al correr. Hacia octubre pasó a dolerme de forma intensa y limitante, todo el día; me dolía el cuádriceps, el glúteo, la ingle. Por la noche no podía dormir porque no encontraba una postura en que no me doliera la pierna. Cuando salíamos con la familia (al zoo, a pasear…) cojeaba y apenas podía seguir el ritmo, y cuando mis hijos (4 y 7 años) me pedían que jugara a fútbol con ellos tenía que decirles que no. No aguantaba de pie demasiado tiempo pero tampoco sentada estaba...

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Andres A.

I’ve just started the program and I’m getting positive results; decreased discomfort and more flexibility. I’ve had two surgeries, one for each hip to correct FAI during 2013 and 2014. Because of discomfort and fear of causing more damage, I stopped activities like running and playing soccer.  The program is definitely not a quick fix and requires time, but for people who want to be proactive about their pain or discomfort, it’s worth the effort. I came across your program as kind of a last resort. The surgeries did not provide the relief that I hoped for. All the PT I have done did not provide even a fraction of the guidance that’s in the FAI Fix program, so thank you!

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Alexander P.

First of all, I want to thank you for the FAI FIX program you put together and for the huge amount of helpful YouTube videos. Also, before I go into more detail here I would like to excuse the length of the following text and very much hope that you stick with it. My English may not be perfect as I come from Germany and do not regularly talk about this topic in the English language.

I would like to talk a little bit about how I came across your YouTube channel at first and, consequently, the FAI FIX program. After I fell with my bike on a muddy trail in the forest about ten years ago and my legs were forcefully and abruptly pulled into a “split position”. I started to feel a strange pinch in the anterior/lateral part of my hip – especially in abduction and flexion and/or internal rotation.

About 10 different visits to at least 7 different doctors did not change anything about my situation. After several years and more visits to the orthopedist I was told that I had...

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Andrew M.

 In the beginning of 2016, I began to get really bad pain in my right hip. I am a collegiate baseball player and at the time, I had never played with or felt hip pain in my career as a baseball player. As my season went on that year, it began to get worse and worse and conservative treatment was not helping too much. I was icing, heating, getting treatment done, but it was so painful and never seemed to get better. It bothered me playing, running, even sleeping.

After a game, I would be tremendously sore and it would be hard to walk at times.  Before my season ended, I went to a hip specialist and had an MRI performed. The results came back that I had FAI with a large cam lesion along with the labral tear.

At that point in time, it was April of 2016 and I decided to finish my season then get the surgery in the summer. After the surgery, I did physical therapy for 8 weeks at home, then would continue to do treatment with my athletic trainer in the fall of 2016. The surgery...

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Dan M.

 

I was a three-sport athlete in high school. Then I went on to play college soccer, and ended up coaching soccer and teaching English in high school.  About seven years ago, my hip started to give out.  After practice sessions at school, I would need to go home and lie on the couch because it hurt too much to stand up.  The next day the pain would dissipate a bit, and then after hobbling around practice again, I would experience the same pain the following night.  This went on for some time, and I thought I would actually have to give up coaching.  The chronic pain was as difficult emotionally as it was bodily.

Eventually, I went to physical therapy. He suggested I see a doctor.  The doctor recommended surgery. Had the surgery.  After the surgery, the doctor told me that “I could walk, bike, or swim” but that anything else would exacerbate my condition and speed up the time before I would need my next surgery–hip...

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Mia

Matt, Shane and the FAI Team,

I want to thank you all! I have had incredible success with the FAI Fix. In 2015-2016 I had persistent, nagging hip pain and sciatica hat kept me from running, hiking and playing outside – everything I love! I was a competitive cross country skier through college and found myself struggling to go through my day without aches and pains; and there was no clear source of the pain. I have always been flexible and through your program I have realized that I have been lacking strength- glutes, hips, lower back. Your program has taught me to listen to my body, put in good quality strength sessions, and to be persistent. I downloaded the FAI fix October 2016 and the FAI fix for athletes and have been doing some sort of hip specific exercise, without fail, every day since then. My hips feel stronger than ever, my sciatic pain is non-existent, and I am now running 8 miles after a year of not running! I have become...

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Lauren H.

 Hi, my name is Lauren and I am a 37-year- old mother from England. I wanted to write a little bit about my hip journey so far and thank Matt and Shane for developing the FAI Fix programme as I  genuinely believe it is changing the course of my life…

I have always been generally active – sometimes a bit all or nothing since having children! – my background is mainly in Taekwon-Do, yoga, pilates, dancing and gym/circuit classes. Early in 2017 I  decided to revisit running as a hobby (something I have never really enjoyed but something that costs nothing and I can do with my children) and I did quite a few 5km runs and a 10km ‘muddy’ obstacle race. It was shortly after this that I started experiencing pain and restriction in my right hip, which got worse and worse throughout the summer until by September I found myself in constant pain, limping and unable to participate in any of my usual activities. The pain was mainly in the front of my...

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Janet M.

 Hi there!! My name is J. I’m 33 and an avid Mountain Biker.

I have always been a very active person. Almost 3 years ago I started experiencing this dull, stiff pain in my right hip. It started to interfere with my everyday life. Sleeping became difficult. Driving my car just pushing the accelerator didn’t feel natural anymore. My hip pain was all I could think about. It was taking over my life.

Finally I went to the Doctor to see what was going on. They suspected FAI hip impingement with labral Tear. They made an appointment for an MRI which confirmed both FAI and Labral tear. He told me I could try physical therapy, but that surgery was probably the only option. What???? Surgery is terrifying. Not to mention recovery time is minimum 6 months at least 2-3 months non weight bearing. I work in a garden center so that wouldn’t really allow me to be off my feet long at all.

I started doing research on my injury, YouTubing video after video...

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Justin H.

 Justin sent this email to The FAI Fix:

Purchased the FAI fix back in April of this year. I’ll be honest, I read a bit about it, but it was basically a last-ditch effort to get my hips feeling better before a fairly demanding military course.

In the months that followed, I went from literally being unable to play floor hockey with my family over Christmas break without pain accompanied by limping for hours afterwards to being able to runmove laterally, and being able to sit relatively comfortable in the bottom of a squat.

I have tons of mobility and flexibility issues and I do occasionally have flare ups due to getting complacent and slacking on the program (not out of debt yet), but I have progressed to where I have added in crawls, movement training, and yoga to my traditional strength training and running.

On the previously mentioned course I rucked many kilometers with 70+lbs of gear on my back without issues....

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Jeremy M.

Your program has helped me so much. I believe the vast majority of FAI patients should probably be doing your program instead of the doctor-prescribed treatments for FAI syndrome.

This experience has blown my mind, because I grew up believing I should always trust my doctor. Perhaps financial incentives are to blame for why so many orthopedic doctors prescribe surgery for so many patients who simply need to work on their soft tissues in order to heal.

BTW, I love the Hip Stick! It’s my go to piece of equipment for getting the knots out of my adductors. Thanks for everything!

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