joint

And patients are really happy with it.

He says, gee, Len, if that was really true, your picture should be on the cover of Bone and Joint magazine.

I just looked at him and said, you know, we've been friends for a long time.

Why don't you come to my office and have a look? That was 15 years ago.

Exactly.

Joint-wise and, and tendon-wise, it's a horrible thing.

Yeah.

Okay.

And ballroom dancing was actually really interesting because I couldn't get my VMO, vastus medialis, to fire until I started standing on my left leg planting internal rotation and then moving backwards through that third plane of motion to get it to fire.

And it took that level of precision and slowness in order to get muscle activation needed for true support of the joint.

Yeah,

so those particular activities, ballroom dancing and being like a coxswain can rowing, What did they provide for you that other activities would have made you more vulnerable?

But mentally, I was in that space, which as soon as you tell somebody not to gain weight, the unconscious doesn't hear the not and it just starts to gain weight.

And it's...

the magic trick almost, but learning that I had to actually use muscle to protect the joint, not try to diminish my body, but build it up instead.

That took a couple of hurdles, but it really was reinforced the more that the more strength that I had developed.