Built from Broken Quotes

“The take-home message is that activity is the driving force behind joint lubrication.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“that hydrodynamic pressure created from moving joints reduces friction and drives synovial fluid back into cartilage, counteracting fluid lost.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Hydrodynamic pressure increased, like a car hydroplaning on a wet road, and cartilage erosion was minimized.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“At higher speeds, like what joints experience while walking, the opposite happened.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“At slower speeds, there was little hydrodynamic pressure, which increased stress on the cartilage.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“To test the idea, they slid pieces of cartilage against glass at various speeds, measuring the amount of friction and cartilage erosion.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Burris and his colleagues hypothesized that hydrodynamic pressure—created from moving joints—was responsible for driving escaped synovial fluid back into cartilage, preserving fluid balance, and protecting joints from degradation.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Since loss of synovial fluid leads to increased friction and cartilage thinning, it’s partially responsible for joint degeneration and osteoarthritis”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Unlike tires, cartilage is porous, and synovial fluid constantly leaks out into the space surrounding the joint.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“In a presentation at the AVS 62nd International Symposium and Exhibition, he used this example to explain how cartilage reabsorbs synovial fluid that leaks out.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Too little air, and the tire collapses, unable to support the weight of the vehicle. Too much air, and the tire could bulge or even burst from excess pressure. Just like with tire pressure, your joints need a healthy balance of synovial fluid to stay strong and mobile. This is called hydrodynamic pressure—the pressure of a liquid within a confined space. If you’ve ever hydroplaned while driving a vehicle, you’ve experienced this phenomenon. When you drive a car on a wet road, hydrodynamic pressure forces water into the gap between the tires and the road. As driving speed increases, so does pressure in the water underneath each tire. This causes a momentary loss of control as your car balances on the thin sheet of pressurized water instead of the road.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“When you drive a car on a wet road, hydrodynamic pressure forces water into the gap between the tires and the road. As driving speed increases, so does pressure in the water underneath each tire. This causes a momentary loss of control as your car balances on the thin sheet of pressurized water instead of the road.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“hydrodynamic pressure—the pressure of a liquid within a confined space.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Too little air, and the tire collapses, unable to support the weight of the vehicle. Too much air, and the tire could bulge or even burst from excess pressure.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Your joints are like tires, and synovial fluid is like the air that fills the empty space inside.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“As satisfying as the Tin Man’s creaky joints metaphor is, that comparison doesn’t explain how synovial fluid works. A more fitting metaphor is tire pressure.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Synovial fluid is the viscous liquid that fills the empty space within your joints, providing lubrication and support.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

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

“And just like the Tin Man needs oil to keep his joints lubricated, you need synovial fluid to keep yours lubricated.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“But I see another metaphor: a worker, joints frozen stiff from age and overuse. A condition that progresses so slowly, so persistently, that it seems to take hold in a moment, like rust forming on metal after a rain.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“In the 1930s, during the Depression, steel factories shut down. Manufacturing plants were abandoned, and so were the employees. The depiction of the Tin Man so rusted he cannot move illustrates this tragic time.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Historians believe the Tin Man character from The Wizard of Oz represented
the plight of American steel industry workers.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“DOROTHY: How did you ever get like this?
TIN MAN: Well, about a year ago, I was chopping that tree—minding my own business—when suddenly it started to rain. And right in the middle of a chop, I . . . I rusted solid. And I’ve been that way ever since. — from The Wizard of Oz”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

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

“healthy tendon is up to twice as strong as the muscle, making the body of the tendon unlikely to tear before the muscle unless the tendon has already been weakened by degenerative changes.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Even traumatic injuries like tearing a rotator cuff in your shoulder are more often preceded by a gradual breakdown of the collagen base over a period of months or years leading up to the injury.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“The joint aches and pains you’re feeling right now, at this very moment, probably fall somewhere in the middle of this continuum.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Stretching can and should be implemented in later phases of tendinopathy recovery, but not while the tendon is still reactive and painful.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Early in the injury phases, self-myofascial release techniques focused on loosening up surrounding muscles can provide some relief and may even increase flexibility (but make sure you target muscles—don’t risk aggravating an already upset tendon by mashing on it with massage devices).”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“stretching may increase the injured tendon’s compression against bone, further damaging the collagen matrix.”
― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body