Christopher Ellis noticed that when people track their sleep hours and pain levels on a 0-to-10 scale, the two numbers move together. More sleep, less pain. Less sleep, more pain. A simple pattern that shows up again and again.
So I just naturally started talking to them about just their general health, not just your knee pain. You know, how are you sleeping? How much do you move? How little do you move? What's your hydration like? What's your nutrition like? Are you taking electrolytes? Are you doing any supplements? So these kinds of conversations naturally came up and, you know, time and time again, it was just this pattern of no one is sleeping well and you could track their pain and their sleep together. In fact, that's what I did. I just asked people, 0 to 10, how is your pain today? And how much did you sleep last night? Not even really how deep did you sleep? Not, not only quality or not even quality, just quantity. And you could just see waxing and waning of pain right along with how they slept.
