Built from Broken Quotes

“Just as your muscles can break down and rebuild stronger with resistance training, so can your joints with intelligent use of connective tissue training principles.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Collagen cross-links can be broken by movements that produce high shear forces between adjacent collagen molecules.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“We also know that cross-links increase with power, speed, and heavy resistance training.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“We know that connective tissue stiffness is dependent on the total amount of collagen present and the amount of cross-linking.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“As you recall, collagen plays the same role in your joints as bricks that make up a house’s walls.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Intramuscular connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, and the fascia sheath surrounding muscles are all made primarily of collagen—specifically, type I collagen.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Throughout this process, connective tissue plays multiple roles—one of the most important being a shock absorber.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“It’s then transferred to the bone, the final stop within the body.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“After force is transferred through the muscle and intramuscular connective tissue, it moves along the tendon.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“This is why using slow, deliberate motions while lifting weights helps activate collagen remodeling—breaking apart old junky cross-links, increasing collagen turnover, and allowing your body to rebuild more robust connective tissue structures.89”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“An important variable that determines how your connective tissue reacts to the force production process is movement speed.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“116 The purpose of this is twofold: it moves energy out of the muscle’s way—so it can contract—and it triggers the surrounding connective tissue fibers to bind together to protect them from injury.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Upwards of 80% of muscular force produced transfers to surrounding connective tissue”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Even though you might think of muscular force as the process of muscle fibers contracting, much of the force production process depends on connective tissue.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Fascia: Fascia is the thin sheath of connective tissue that surrounds muscles. It plays a pivotal role in force transfer between parts of the kinetic chain. Fascia is dense with nerve endings, making it almost as sensitive as skin. This is part of the reason why manual therapy methods like foam rolling and massage have so much support for pain and tension relief.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Intramuscular: This is connective tissue that runs directly through and between muscle fibers. It helps transfer force from muscles to tendons and vice versa.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Cartilage: Cartilage acts as a cushioning barrier within joints and between bones. Unlike tendons and ligaments, cartilage lacks blood vessels and nerves, making it a problematic connective tissue for the body to repair.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Ligaments: Ligaments connect bones to other bones. Their primary purpose is joint stabilization.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Tendons: Tendons connect muscles to bones. They’re more compliant (stretchy) than ligaments but more rigid than muscles. Tendons are responsible for much of the force transfer through the body during movement.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Each has a different role in the muscular force production process, which depends not only on its anatomical structure but also on the collagen content and arrangement”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Beyond providing structural integrity, connective tissue helps transmit force, protect muscles and bones from injury, shuttle nutrients around, and repair damaged cells.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

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

“This is termed basal degradation.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“A significant portion (up to 15% in animal studies) of newly synthesized collagen is broken down.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“While some collagenolysis is necessary, excessive collagen degradation causes loss of connective tissue mass and is one of the primary drivers of joint aging and disease.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Why it matters: It sounds bad, but collagen degradation is an essential physiological process for injury and wound repair.114 It kickstarts the remodeling of suboptimal collagen formations, which is necessary to repair new injuries and replace scar tissue with healthy tissue.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

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

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

“After an injury, fibril formation quality can be enhanced or damaged depending on your exercise habits.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“These fibrils’ composition largely determines how healthy, flexible, and resistant to degradation the soft tissue is.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body