Michele Bird

Way to go @gbird_33 !

@statechampsmich @CoachStine32 Congrats Scott and team!

LUMEN CHRISTI IS THE D3 STATE CHAMPIONS🏀 🏆 Jackson Lumen Christi gets their first Girls Basketball State Championship! Final score 52-36

I’ve been an orthopedic surgeon for nearly 30 years, and a few patterns have become impossible to ignore. One is that many musculoskeletal problems in adults aren’t sudden injuries. They’re the moment when declining capacity and awful metabolic health finally reveals itself. Over the decades your strength fades, muscle mass declines, as your aerobic capacity tanks. Tendons and connective tissues lose substance, stiffness, and resilience. For years the body compensated... quietly. Then one day a knee hurts during a run to get the train, or shoulder aches reaching overhead, or a back tightens lifting something simple. At that point the story usually becomes more about structural damage. An MRI gets ordered. Welcome to high-tech, low-medicine. And the MRI almost always finds something. A meniscus tear. A rotator cuff tear. A disc bulge. Why? Because by midlife these findings are extremely common — even in people with no pain at all. If you have a tear in one shoulder, image the other shoulder... you probably have the same tear there. But I digress. Once the scan appears, the narrative changes. The image becomes the diagnosis. Now the patient believes something is broken, and the focus often shifts to fixing what the MRI shows. What often gets lost in this is the reason the symptoms appeared in the first place. Many so-called “atraumatic” orthopedic complaints are not purely mechanical failures. They are the moment when reduced strength, declining tissue capacity, and sometimes broader metabolic health issues finally reach a tipping point. Our tissues change over the decades... get over it. In other words, the MRI didn’t create the problem. Well... it sort of did in this scenario. But all the MRI showed was something that was already there.... because of your age, lifestyle, health and so on. The real driver of symptoms is often loss of physiologic reserve. Less muscle. Less tendon or aerobic resilience. Less tolerance for load, etc. Once the MRI enters the picture, the risk becomes overtreatment. This is probably the number one reason people have surgery. When in many cases the most powerful intervention was never the scan or the procedure. It was rebuilding capacity. Strong muscles stabilize joints. Aerobic fitness improves metabolic health and tissue perfusion. Gradual loading restores tolerance. But people often don't take PT seriously prior to surgery. They often take PT very seriously afterwards. Therefore, PT is probably the reason you feel better, despite the surgery. The irony is that the treatment many people ultimately need is the same thing that might have prevented the problem in the first place. Staying strong. Staying active. Maintaining the reserve that protects our joints/tendons/muscles/abilities as we age.

@phys_sam @AxelMar9 @hjluks Thank you- as if it’s Magic.

@AxelMar9 @hjluks So frustrating when people say PT didn't work. Like its a fixed thing or product.

Tennis elbow. Stupid name. Everyone will get it. Injections make it worse and should be avoided. Painful tendons want load… so braces are bad ideas too. What does work … open.substack.com/pub/howardluks…

@benwehrman Do you know Jesus?

How long are people going to keep telling themselves "Everyone grieves differently" until their natural intuition kicks in, and they realize every moment Erika has been on camera since Sept. 10th has been inconsistent with the way ANYONE else on Earth would act in her situation?

@Raina15 Congratulations!

Grateful for the opportunity to lead this incredible program. New era. Same mission. Wings up 🤙🏽 Go Eagles 🦅

Congrats to Bryce Bird, Ben Golan, Gavin Heimlich and Nick Malagreca Jr. from #QuakersMBB @DubC_MensHoops for earning CSC Academic All-District honors! To earn this, you must not only have a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 but must have played in 90% of your team's games or started in 67% of them. #WeAreDubC #experiencewilmingtoncollege

@Raina15 @kate_martin22 Love it!

Happy everybody is getting to see what we saw from the beginning. Kate Martin is a WORKER! …and them #ScaryHours gon reveal themselves every time! 😈 Keep going @kate_martin22. Love, always 💛

Kate “Money” Martin story time: 1) During her 1st season in the B1G, defenders didn’t really guard her at the 3. She wanted…needed…to become a more consistent 3 pt shooter. What did she do that following summer…SHE WORKED!

@hmjensen31 @CMUWBBall @kristinhaynie @jennaal33 @ToccaraRenee @CoachChelsie @jroane14 @avahallam1 This game! 🎉🥳💥🤣🎧

#larson455 is excited for @CMUWBBall Hoops for Hunger game in two days!!! 🔥👆🏀 @kristinhaynie @jennaal33 @ToccaraRenee @CoachChelsie @jroane14 @avahallam1

@allicovington @BrockSamspon What form do you recommend? Acetyl or Tartrate or? TIA

@BrockSamspon You’ll need 3-5g unless you take liposomal version, and in that one I take 1g

The 40 min of cardio isn’t to lose fat, it’s to improve your cardio health, improve your metabolic function, stimulate mitochondrial growth, build VO2 max, and improve longevity. The fact that you’ll also burn fat is a nice side benefit 😉 so take your L-Carnitine beforehand 👊🏻

@DubCQuakers @DubC_MensHoops Is there supposed to be sound on the live stream?

#QuakersMBB plays their first OAC game of the season at 7:00 P.M. against the Muskingum University Fighting Muskies! Watch the Quakers and Muskies play here tinyurl.com/5fnajh7a and follow along with live action of the contest at tinyurl.com/3muucpd8. @DubC_MensHoops #WeAreDubC #experiencewilmingtoncollege

@CannyZanny Rings for everyone! Conference champs and NCAA runs. They get presented during fall sports - ie a football game. Then they wear them to graduation and then it’s over. 😂

I promise this is a genuine question and I’m not being shady. Did they (Iowa) order these rings themselves? Because I’ve never heard of Final Four rings

@Coachm_m Yes- I told I was wrong!

@mmbird25 Caught me off guard this day!!! Young Thug- So Much Fun Album!

Love getting in the gym with our guys and getting better! Also love their range of music! During individuals players get their personal selection on the aux. Here’s what was selected our last day of individuals! N.W.A. Michael Jackson Noah Kahan Drake Zach Bryan Young Thug

@crashoutking1 This is emotional intelligence 👏👏

Fever players get it. Can’t say the same for the rest of the league unfortunately 🤷🏾‍♂️

@SourTim @byjuliapoe She described a “crack” in the bone, this is a fracture. Therefore, doctor ruled in a fracture. She described bone to have poor blood supply. That bone is the scaphoid. She shouldn’t try to explain her injury-message lost in translation.

@mmbird25 @byjuliapoe If it was a scaphoid feature, the team’s doctor would’ve ruled her out immediately. And she would be in a lot of pain.

Angel Reese provides more details about her SEI via TikTok. Hairline fracture incurred Friday. Technically could have played on, but elected for surgery to avoid arthritis, damage, etc. Timeline: surgery on Tuesday, hard cast for 4 weeks, soft for 2 weeks, then into rehab.

@AaronGoodman33 “Hey Wazowski- You forgot to do you paperwork”

Yes there is no doubt the ROOKIE OF THE YEAR is ⁦@CaitlinClark22⁩ ! ⁦@IndianaFever⁩ - via @ESPN App espn.com/video/clip/_/i…

Men’s Basketball Has Five Players Honored with National Academic Awards tinyurl.com/3tmvxvs5 @DubC_MensHoops #QuakersMBB #WeAreDubC #experiencewilmingtoncollege

Geno Auriemma’s old comments about Caitlin Clark’s WNBA rookie year look silly now si.com/wnba/geno-auri…