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“It just started hurting one day.”
It’s the sentence we hear most in the clinic. But once you have treated patients for years, you learn that pain rarely starts as suddenly as it seems. A knee that bends a little less on the stairs, a hand pressed to the lower back on standing up, the body had already been signalling for months, sometimes years.
The trouble is, there is no good way to catch that signal early. So most people see a doctor only after it hurts, and the visit usually starts with an X-ray or MRI of the bone and ligament structure.
That is exactly what the images miss, because movement breaks down before bone does. What if we could read that signal a little sooner? That question is where we met.
“The structure looks normal.” The usual verdict from X-ray and MRI. Bone and ligament can look fine while movement keeps breaking down.
