Hear how Stuart's hip impingement has been doing since he started using the FAI Fix approach to his hip problems.

Transcript:

Hey, everybody! It's Matt Hsu from Upright Health and welcome to Episode 21 of the Upright Health Podcast. Today's episode is actually an interview that I did with a gentleman who was having a lot of hip troubles for the last several years and who's sent me an email out of the blue that I thought was really interesting. And then I thought I should share with you. So he agreed to do an interview that you're going to hear today where he talks about problems with his hip and the progress he has seen by using the FAI Fix self-help and self-training program that we’ve put out recently. So if you haven't seen that, that’s at TheFAIFix.com. Again, that's TheFAIFix.com for that self-help and self-training program that I've put together with Shane Dowd in San Diego. So without further ado, here is the interview. Enjoy!
Matt: Hey, everybody! This is Matt Hsu from Upright Health and I'm here today with Stuart Dupuy. Is that how you pronounce it?
Stuart: Yes, it is.
Matt: And Stuart, could you introduce yourself? What do you do? How old are you? What do you do for fun? All that good stuff.
Stuart: Yes. So I live in Austin, Texas. I'm 45 years old. I'm an entrepreneur. I own a few different businesses. And I have four kids. I like to spend time with them. For fun, I like to do triathlon, mountain biking and snow skiing. So I really like to do anything outside.
Matt: Perfect. And so Stuart’s a super active guy. And I got an email from Stuart about two weeks ago, I think. And Stuart was telling me that he had some hip problems. So can you give us a little background about when your hip problem started and what the symptoms were and all that?
Stuart: Yes. So I've had hip problems on and off for many years. It really started probably three years ago. My left hip mobility was really starting to deteriorate and so I started attacking it with yoga. I have a dance studio. It's one of the businesses and I've created a class that I could go to. And for every week, I would go and just force the range of motion into my hip. And basically, I stretched my back and I aggravated my hip for three years until I figured out that what I was doing was actually the opposite of what I needed to be doing for my hip.
I got a diagnosis with a friend of mine. He's actually an orthopedic surgeon up in Temple, Texas, of Femoroacetabular Impingement. And I had actually heard about it through… I came across some of your videos, Matt, online and I've done a lot of research. And my friend is also a cyclist and I was very happy at the time when with him that he was not telling me to have surgery. He actually told me that I was not a good candidate for surgery based upon some of the cartilage damage that I have in my hip socket. We got an MRI and x-ray and you could see on the MRI that my labrum is pretty much shredded. And I think that's because I've been forcing the hip to make that motion that it shouldn't be doing. And it was striking to me to look at the MRI and to look at the x-ray to see the edema, the bruising on my bone of where my femur was banging up against my pelvis just over and over as I was forcing it, just making it happen. I could literally feel the pain as it would move over that rough spot and get past it and then come back out open back up.
I've been really aggressively attacking it from a soft tissue perspective, probably since March. So it's been about three months, in large part because of the videos that I saw from you, Matt and then just additional research that I've done on my own. I've hired a personal trainer just specifically to focus on strengthening my posterior chain to work on my glutes. The left side, my left glute, I find myself never using it. So like right now, as I'm sitting on the chair, you know, I'm forcing myself to fire that left side. When I drive, I drive to Colorado and back.