Rethinking Orthopedics challenges the prevailing notion that the body is a machine with replaceable parts. In this first episode, host Mary J. Rogel, Ph.D., L.Ac., will explain how our joints are constantly adapting. Rather than seeing chronic wear and tear as a design fault, she sees it as evidence of an ingenious mechanism that allows us to continue functioning after injury. This shift in thinking, from mechanistic to plastic, explains why some people have such poor treatment outcomes, and it totally changed her methods of diagnosis and treatment. So many of our current diagnostic and trea
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