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@ShreyNadkarni1 @NelsonMogaka_ I'd recommend looking for a good chiropractor instead.

@collin_ruth89 Well, there's Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, That one from Microsoft, and Chipotle's chatbot. Ask away.

Disc degeneration is present in 37% of 20-year-olds who have no pain. By age 60, it's 88%. Disc herniations in 29% of asymptomatic 20-year-olds. That's from Brinjikji et al. (2015), a systematic review of MRI findings in people with zero back or neck complaints, published in the American Journal of Neuroradiology. So when a post-collision MRI shows degeneration, that finding does not establish that the degeneration was causing pain before the accident. It establishes that the degeneration exists. Those are two very different claims — and the legal and clinical consequences of confusing them fall entirely on the patient. The imaging is showing anatomy. It is not showing a timeline. adjust.clinic/degeneration-g…

There is a particular cruelty in being told that the condition causing your pain is "pre-existing." It implies that the pain somehow doesn't count. That because the substrate was already there, the injury isn't real. That you should have been in pain before, and since you weren't, something about your current pain is suspect. But this is a confusion of cause and context. The degeneration is the context in which the injury occurred. The collision is what activated it. Context is not exculpatory. A building with older wiring is more vulnerable to a power surge—but the surge is still what caused the fire. The voice that emerges after the injury was latent before. But latent is not the same as fictional. And activated is not the same as invented.

There's nothing wrong with PF, as long as you can find a time when it's not too crowded. It's clean, mostly quiet beyond their pumped in music. I only know of one that has a real squat rack and deadlift station--with a real bar. So you have to make do with whatever machines they offer.

@hubermanlab GH enhancing: actual GH

@macastel3 @JacobEdwardInc For a moment I thought you were talking about cumulative sleep less than 9 hours over 20 years. What a relief to see that you're talking about night by night.

@JacobEdwardInc Hell yeah. Instant follow.

@GaltMD Epic

Two people in the same vehicle. Same impact. One is fine in six weeks. The other is still in treatment two years later. We tend to resolve this discrepancy with stories about personality. About resilience. About who "pushed through" and who didn't. But the body is not a moral character. It is a biological system with a specific history. The person who doesn't recover quickly arrived at the collision carrying more biological vulnerability — a spine with less reserve, a nervous system closer to the threshold — often through no fault or choice of their own. They are, in a precise sense, more injured by the same event. Slower recovery is not a character flaw. It is a biological fact

Most people walking around right now have degenerative changes in their spine that they don't know about. Discs that have lost height. Annular fibers with micro-fissures. New nerve tissue that has grown into places it was never supposed to be. None of it hurts. None of it interferes with their lives. The biology is there, silent, below the threshold of awareness. Then a collision happens. And suddenly the imaging "shows" degeneration, and someone argues that the pain is therefore pre-existing and unrelated to the crash. But the pain wasn't there before. The biology was there before. These are not the same thing. The crash didn't create the substrate. It gave the substrate a voice. And that distinction matters enormously to the person who is now living with the pain.

@asutosh_bishal You're going to miss out on the "pride luminance wallpaper?!"

There is a phrase in spine medicine that should be taught to every patient: the cord has a clock. What this means, in plain language, is that the longer the compression continues, the less the recovery. A cord decompressed early recovers substantially. A cord decompressed late recovers less, and sometimes not at all. The same intervention, performed on the same patient, yields radically different outcomes depending on when it arrives. This is not a metaphor. It is physiology. Ischemia, demyelination, and programmed cell death accumulate at their own pace. The tissue does not wait for insurance approval or the next available appointment. It does not suspend its decay while we deliberate. Epictetus would recognize this principle: some things are up to us, and some are not. The pace of our administrative systems is up to us. The pace of neural death is not. We are the ones who must accommodate the cord, not the other way around. What the cord teaches is that time is not a neutral backdrop against which medical decisions play out. Time is itself a variable, as real as the surgery or the medication. The decision to order imaging today versus in three months is, physiologically, a different decision. The care delayed is not the same care eventually given; it is a lesser care, regardless of the technical skill with which it is finally delivered. To honor this is to develop a different kind of patience — not the patience that waits and sees, but the patience that acts now precisely because the window is narrow.

We are fluent in the language of sudden catastrophe. The crash. The rupture. The diagnosis that divides the life into before and after. What we struggle with is the slow catastrophe — the disease that arrives in installments, the compression that progresses through seasons, the erosion that announces itself only when it is too late to reverse. One answer is to reject the demand for drama. Not every erosion has a moment. Some decisions matter not because they are inflection points but because they are the accumulation of small attentions. The scan ordered when imaging was not strictly indicated. The question asked when the patient minimized. The hour given to examination when the clinic was running late. The slow catastrophe is most often prevented by the slow, undramatic practice. It is not heroic medicine. It is the long, patient work of noticing — and the conviction that noticing is itself a form of care worth doing even when no one applauds it. adjust.clinic/quiet-myelopat…

You cannot feel an oligodendrocyte dying. The cells that insulate your nerves, that make thought fast and movement precise, undergo programmed death quietly, cumulatively, without pain. A compressed cord loses its myelin the way a forest loses its canopy: leaf by leaf, no single loss registering, until one afternoon the light has changed entirely and you cannot remember when. The remedy is not vigilance-as-fear. It is attention to the small signal, early. It is trusting the report of the partner who says you walk differently now more than the report of our own felt sense that everything is fine. The self is a late witness. The people who love us, and the clinicians who examine us well, can sometimes read the whisper before we can.

The body does not always scream when it is injured. Sometimes it speaks in dropped cups and missed buttons and a hand that numbs briefly and recovers. We are trained to attend to the dramatic — the fracture, the bleed, the cry for help. We are not trained to attend to the whisper. But the whisper is where pathology begins. By the time the body shouts, it has often been trying to tell us something for months. A spinal cord under chronic compression does not ache the way a torn muscle aches. It dispatches odd, inconsistent symptoms and waits to see if anyone is listening. There is an ethics in this. To hear the whisper requires a posture the modern clinical encounter rarely allows: sustained attention to the small, the strange, the easily dismissed. It is slower than diagnosis by algorithm. It is less impressive than the dramatic save. And yet the quiet seeing is the more consequential act. A cord caught whispering can be preserved. A cord caught shouting has often already lost what it was warning us about. The clinician who learns to listen to whispers is doing nothing less than protecting the future self of the patient from the carelessness of the present encounter. The question is never only What is wrong? It is also What is this person trying to tell me that they don't yet have the words for?

@BrianSuttererMD Delivered in a sparkling soda!

@TheRealOpsGuy @HoosierKid31 I take a cloth hand towel, get it wet, and nuke it in the microwave for 30 seconds. Then wrap the syringe in the hot towel for a minute or two.

@DrDavidSLiu @EvidenceOpen @CedarsSinai yes, but it will be a trade school where you learn motor skills to treat the patient.

@ygivenx @EvidenceOpen @CedarsSinai I think the accuracy falls on the shoulders of the doctors. Use AI to gather information and make recommendations, but also double check it and question it if it doesn't add up.