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10/21/2026

Here is my client .Ryan14_5 handling 225lbs x 3 reps in his full range VLAD style heels elevated deadlift, 8 months after fully tearing his ACL and recovering without surgery.
 He is also back to change of direction activities including basketball and dunking to even higher levels than before his injury.  If you’d like to see some progressions we have used for his recovery comment “SEND” and I’ll send them your way!  Here’s to a greater pursuit of TRUTH! 🙏 🫡

10/20/2026

Your MRI came back and now you’re spiraling 😟

Horizontal meniscus tear… moderate-severe cartilage thinning… bone marrow edema… patellar tendon changes.

Sound familiar?

Here’s the truth most people don’t hear:

These findings are extremely common — even in people with zero knee pain. One large study found abnormalities in 97% of pain-free adult knees. Elite athletes with no symptoms? Every single knee had something.

Your knee isn’t “broken.” It’s showing normal wear from years of being active.

The goal isn’t to make the MRI look perfect.
The goal is to get your pain and function better.

Focus on what you CAN change:
✅ Strength
✅ Movement quality
✅ Load management

Plenty of people with MRIs exactly like yours do great without surgery.

Treat the person, not the picture.

If you want simple, effective exercises to build knee strength and confidence, comment “12” and I’ll send you my free Top 12 Knee Exercises video.

Here’s to a greater pursuit of TRUTH! 🫡🧪 💪

10/17/2026

ACL tears can heal themselves WITHOUT surgery WITH exercise per MRI and ARTHROSCOPY verified re-attachment!!! 🤯😱

This is a message that needs shouted from the rooftops!

Unfortunately, 90% of surgeons will tell you that this route has NO chance to match the results of an ACL reconstruction — encouraging you instead to rush into surgery!

Research *actually* shows that delaying surgery has no downsides at all — worst case scenario, if you aren’t successful in re-attaching your ACL thru rehabilitation, you can always opt for surgery later on. Outcomes are likely to be better off given you attempted prehabilitation beforehand.

Research from Ihara et al in 2017 finds that 90% of ACL tears will be of such fiber orientation that they will heal themselves 70% of the time when undergoing an early weight bearing bracing protocol.

Our team Dr. Kieran Richardson specializes in MRI evaluation and rehabiliation of fully torn ACLs — ensuring you have full closure on your case and aren’t making blind decisions either way.

We always advise inquiring individuals to pump the breaks on rushing into surgery until investigating all possible avenues of management.

Comment “KNEE” and I’ll send you a link to get started with a discounted evaluation with the team at Global Specialist Physio.

Here’s to a greater pursuit of TRUTH! 🙏🫡🧪

10/12/2026

Spending less than 60 seconds with a negligent clinician can make your pain worse. 🤯
Not clickbait—actual research:

A 2023 study found that one 60-second video framing pain as coming from “moving wrong” increased the risk of pain pessimism by 62% compared to controls.

Another study showed that simply handing patients their MRI reports filled with “scary” diagnostic language led to significantly worse pain perception, more catastrophizing, and poorer function.

A 2024 systematic review and meta-analysis of 130 studies (>8,000 people) found a 64% greater likelihood of a worse pain experience when fear-based language and avoidance education were used—and it got worse the more that messaging was reinforced.

Common examples of this conditioning in the context of movement:
 • “Don’t let your knees go past your toes” • “Don’t round your back”

Telling people they can’t move their bodies certain ways doesn’t protect them.

According to the highest-level research we have, it makes pain worse.

Avoidance education based on fear language causes harm.
If you’re a clinician still using this language, the solution is simple: be evidence-based and drop the outdated terminology.

If you’ve been told these things as a patient, you’re not broken. Your body is capable of far more than you’ve been led to believe.

Save this. Share it with someone who needs the reminder.
What’s one piece of “don’t do this” advice you’ve heard that made you more scared to move?

Comment POWER for free fear destroying exercises for the knee and back.

Follow ATG Exercise and ATG For Coaches for further education on safe and scalable exercise progressions to power you past fear.

If you’re a clinician who is uncomfortable with exercise prescription, I highly recommend you get your L1 ATG certification; you won’t regret it!

10/10/2026

17 years is how long it takes for research to change practice.

We’ve gone from cassettes to iPods, sweepers to Roombas, and brick phones to the device in your hand… yet most people are still told their torn ACL “won’t heal” and needs surgery.

The data tells a different story.

MRI- and arthroscopy-verified reattachment has been documented since the 1990s.

Multiple RCTs, systematic reviews, and cohort studies show that a large percentage of ACLs can heal with appropriate bracing + rehab, that early reconstruction is not superior to rehab + optional delayed surgery, that non-op management is linked to lower arthritis risk, and that return-to-sport rates can be comparable — even in sports like soccer, basketball, and judo.

This isn’t “everyone will heal and go pro.”

It’s informed consent: you deserve to know the real likelihood of natural healing before you decide.

If you just tore your ACL, get your specific case reviewed:

globalspecialistphysio.com/ACL

Use code KENNY for 10% off.

Pursue the truth 🧪🤝

10/09/2026

Surgery might not be needed for you!

Research on ACL tears, meniscus tears, and bone-on-bone knees points to something a lot of people never hear: healing without surgery is possible.

Your body is built to recover. The hard part early on is getting enough rehab stimulus without making things worse.

That’s where blood flow restriction training with the SUJI cuff comes in.

SUJI means muscle/tendon in Japanese — the exact tissues this is meant to support.

What is blood flow restriction?

You lightly restrict blood flow while you train. Muscles run out of oxygen faster, work harder, and get a bigger response from lighter loads. Useful when heavy loading still aggravates the joint.

The cuff helps bridge early rehab and long-term strength. As you recover, you can bring normal loading back and keep the cuff as a tool to support the process.

Save this if you’re navigating an injury and want options beyond “just wait for surgery.”

Comment “SUJI” for more information about this device.

Here’s to a greater pursuit of TRUTH! 🙏 🧪

10/07/2026

If you had your meniscus taken out, you are not doomed to a painful knee.

Meniscectomy can raise the chance of later arthritis to about 50%.

That sounds like a sentence. It is not the whole story. Plenty of people are walking around with arthritis, cartilage wear, or a tear on a scan and no pain at all.

A scan shows structure. Pain is what the nervous system does with that structure. Lingering joint irritation can make the nerves around the knee, and the processing in the spinal cord and brain, treat small input like a threat. Same picture on two MRIs. Very different pain. Like an air conditioner that keeps running after the house is already cool.

The useful part: that sensitivity setting can move.

Two large reviews, one on exercise and one on pain education, found that strength work, stretching, and a clear explanation of pain can reduce pain-sensitivity measures.

Strength plus stretch had the cleaner result against non-exercise controls, on the order of a large shift, roughly 30 points if you picture a 0–100 scale.

Education more reliably raised how much pressure people could tolerate before it hurt.

Neither result means the tear vanished or the joint was rebuilt. Both mean the alarm can quiet.

When you are cleared to load it, the knee work is simple: strength in the top quarter and the bottom quarter, on one leg and two, plus a stretch that uses the opposing muscle so the quads and hamstrings can lengthen.

Load those ranges. Teach the knee it is not fragile. A tear that never looks “healed” on a scan can still be a knee you train, play on, and stop guarding.

Comment KNEE for the non-surgical research and the progressions.

Here is to a greater pursuit of truth! 🧪🫡

Edit: 9000 knees is more accurately stated as 9000 individuals with sensitization which can include knees.

Application remains the same: ADOPT A RESILIENCE MINDSET WITH EXERCISE ACCORDING TO TOLERANCE!

Thank you ATG Exercise and ATG For Coaches for the education on simple and scalable exercise progressions that are essential for addressing pain sensitization — give them a follow and get your cert for more hands on knowledge!

10/03/2026

Told an ACL won’t heal, and that surgery is the only way back to sport?

The Delaware–Oslo cohort followed people who chose rehab first.

After early swelling and range-of-motion work, 118 of 300 opted out of reconstruction.

Of those with full data, 53.6% met the study’s definition of success at 2 years — no surgery, and knee function in a normal range for their age and s*x (average IKDC 94).

About 17% returned to Level 1 sports (basketball, soccer, football), 33% to Level 2, and 38% to Level 3. Only 1.6% did not return to sport at all.

After 5 weeks of rehab, each extra IKDC point was linked to about 6% higher odds of that 2-year success.

A follow-up found no difference in osteoarthritis or knee pain between early surgery, delayed surgery, and rehab alone.

Worst case if you trial rehab: you still choose surgery. You only get one chance to find out what rehab can do before the knife.

MRI tear pattern and early rehab response both change the odds. Book a case review at globalspecialistphysio.com/ACL — code KENNY for 10% off the initial evaluation.

Here’s to a greater pursuit of TRUTH! 🫡🧪

09/30/2026

My client Nick Ryan FULLY tore his ACL back in February and is absolutely CRUSHING this 25lb single leg squat on a wedge, otherwise known as the Knee Lab “Shotgun Squat” — achieved on September 30th; more than 7 months after the fact!

This is around 13% of his bodyweight; we’d like to see him hit about 47.5lbs for 6-8 reps to achieve the Knee Lab standard of 25% bodyweight for this exercise, which usually translates to improvements in sport function and knee protection if attained.

Along the way, Nick has passed his ligamentous special tests for stability, returned to competitive basketball 2x a week for hours at a time, and has even improved his vertical jump to higher levels than before his injury; doing trick dunks with EASE!

He will eventually get a repeat MRI to determine if his ACL has physically re-attached, but, at the very least, he is an excellent coper!

Every case obviously has its context to consider, but in Nick’s case, the non-surgical route was the right one for him.

If you’d like to chat about your knee issue, comment “KNEE” and I’ll personally reach out to help.

Follow and get your ATG For Coaches cert for learning the exercise progressions that have helped Nick get where he is today!

Here’s to a greater pursuit of TRUTH! 🙏

09/29/2026

Why do we love the ATG Split Squat?

Cyclic compression at deep knee angles activates living cells in the cartilage to create thicker and stronger cartilage over time.

That’s directly from a study in the scientific literature “Effects of and Response to Mechanical Loading on the Knee” (Logerstedt et al 2021)

When connecting that data to Dr. Aaron Swanson and his kinematics diagram of the deep squat, you get a fun result:

MORE knee ability in DEEP positions = MORE ease of movement in SHALLOW positions… like in sport!

If you’d like to learn the exact system that has helped me manage ACL/Meniscus/Cartilage damage clients to great success, reach out to ATG For Coaches for more on how to get certified through the ATG Exercise system; you won’t regret it! 🙏

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