Built from Broken Quotes

“Upregulated pain receptors, increased nerve endings, and other structural changes to the nervous system can make you sensitized to pain in the future—long after the original injury has healed.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“sensitization.34 It’s your body’s way of protecting an injury from further aggravation, but it can also overreact. As pain receptors continue to upregulate and more inflammatory mediators are released, your acute pain from an injury can transition into chronic pain.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“This same process of rewiring neural circuitry takes place in the rest of the body as well.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Like a road detour during construction, a damaged brain finds a new path to the destination.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to form new connections, especially in response to learning or an injury.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“A third type, centralized pain, occurs when your nervous system amplifies the volume of pain signals.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Neuropathic pain is described as shooting, tingling, stabbing, or burning—often affecting the lower legs and feet. It can be a chronic feeling or come and go.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“The key difference is that nociceptive pain is caused by direct tissue damage, and neuropathic pain is caused by a disease state or nervous system dysfunction. Differentiating between the two helps you determine what course of action is best.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Types of Pain Most pain experts consider nociceptive pain and neuropathic pain to be the two primary types.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Pain is not without value, but it’s hard to recognize this when you’re in pain. Its value lies in guiding you back to health.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“(nociceptive pain),”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“it pays to be your own pain management specialist. Or at least, your own advocate for getting the care you need.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Only 10 pounds of excess weight puts an additional 40 pounds of pressure on your knees.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Experts from Arthritis.org and the Centers for Disease Control agree that staying active is the most important thing you can do to manage symptoms”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Osteoarthritis (OA) is the breakdown of cartilage and other collagen structures within joints. Although injuries can expedite the onset of OA, and it worsens with age, it is not considered a normal part of aging. Weight-bearing joints and the hands are most affected, with increased body weight being a major risk factor.30”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks its joint tissue. RA patients often depend on medication and targeted physical therapy to mitigate symptoms.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“often the first to break down from overuse, causing inflammation, pain, and cell degeneration.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“attaches muscle to bone.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“tendons”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“muscle imbalance alters movement patterns and joint mechanics, which leads to postural faults, excessive compensatory loading on specific joints and muscles, inflammation, pain, and injury.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“A study commissioned by the National Federation of State High School Associations showed that single-sport athletes are 70% more likely to suffer an injury than are multisport athletes.24”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“On the opposite end of the spectrum, multisport athletes enjoy better performance success and reduced injury rates than single sport athletes.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“upper back muscles should be trained using high repetitions from multiple angles, so they are never your weak link”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“muscular endurance in your low back (the most common pain point) is more important than muscular strength or mobility.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“This includes fatigue-proofing important postural muscles that you can’t afford to have quit on you.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Joint proprioception describes your ability to sense the position and movement of your body through space.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Joint proprioception”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“By establishing joint stability with targeted corrective exercises and frequently practicing the primary movement patterns, you can improve neuromuscular coordination.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Neuromuscular coordination is the ability of your central nervous system to control muscles while executing complex movements.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Movement quality is comprised of neuromuscular coordination, joint proprioception, and fatigue management. Let’s briefly look at each of these crucial pieces.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body