Most people are told a torn meniscus needs surgery to "clean it out".  But in this episode, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jason Snibbe tells me that roughly 30% of those patients end up needing a full knee replacement within three to six months, because the cleanout itself is trauma that speeds up the joint's breakdown. Instead, he uses a simple platelet-rich plasma injection that gets many patients 70 to 80% better from a single shot, sending them back to tennis and golf without ever going under the knife. As he put it to me, "I don't operate on your MRI, I operate on how you feel." We also get into "prehab," why your knee pain often starts in your hip, how robotic surgery spares the muscle older methods destroy, and why his patients are walking within an hour of a joint replacement. 

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro of Show

02:07 - Prehab: the missing Biohack

03:30 - The tourniquet that crushes your quad

05:52 - What a prehab cycle looks like

10:14 - Why movement protects cartilage

10:47 - Walking and the kinetic chain

14:57 - What robotic surgery really does

17:12 - Haptic tech: the saw never leaves bone

19:54 - A rehab that went wrong

22:40 - Walking within an hour of surgery

25:18 - Best peptides for recovery

27:15 - "I don't operate on your MRI."

33:27 - Gary's ACL and the 70% rule

37:17 - Why knee pain hides in the hip

38:35 - The shoe built for standing

44:16 - The future of orthopedic surgery

47:57 - The meniscus surgery trap

50:51 - Why a total shoulder feels brutal

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