"Don't Get Old" is advice frequently received by healthcare professionals from their patients. These individuals have come to believe that age has now caught up with them and their body is breaking down at an alarming rate as each year passes. With the continued development of a new ache or pain comes the fear of making it worse and the hope that this problem will slowly fade away as mysteriously as it had arrived. The truth of the matter, and my response to these individuals, is that the pain they are experiencing is a result of moving their body in a similar fashion throughout their life with a preference to over utilize certain muscles while under utilizing others. No one walks around with the perfect balance of strength and flexibility throughout their body and we all develop weakness over time as our movements and positions fall into habitual patterns. Some areas of the body may be so well developed that they over power others. Resulting in the recruitment of the muscles that are the strongest to accomplish the daily climb up the stairs, the long distance run, or the moving of furniture. We do not become aware of these imbalances until they become so great that they have provoked our body's warning system, pain. The goal of this project is to bring together healthcare providers who have demonstrated the desire to set themselves apart from their peers through advanced post graduate education and superior patient outcomes. In doing so, creating a reliable source of quality orthopedic information for the spectrum of people who are looking to complete daily tasks along with those who desire to compete at high level, free of chronic injury and limitation. This website is designed to promote quality healthcare providers similar to the "Angies List" concept along with exercise and movement based interventions that are both safe and functional. This includes guidance in recreational fitness as well as competitive athletic strength and conditioning. We hope this site develops into a valuable resource to locate good clinicians when care is needed, and a resource for exercise recommendations that are effective in identifying common weaknesses and preventing recurrent problems.
