Dr. Jeffrey GladdenFounder & CEO of Gladden Longevity

Use Injury to Get Stronger, Faster, and Fitter 💪

3 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this presentation Dr. Jeffrey Gladden outlines his clinic’s philosophy of turning injuries into opportunities for patients to become fitter, faster, and stronger. The approach emphasizes two pathways: preventing surgery when possible, and supporting optimal recovery when surgery is needed. Central to the model is an in‑house training and fitness team that provides ongoing, year‑round (or more frequent) fitness programming and health check‑ups, encouraging patients to adopt a pro‑athlete mindset rather than seeing themselves merely as rehab cases. By fostering strong communication and bonding, the clinic aims to treat the initial injury while simultaneously delivering lifelong fitness, continuously integrating the latest research to help patients stay active indefinitely.

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We strongly encourage our patients to use their injury as an excuse to become fitter, faster, and stronger than they've been in years. I love that. I love that. We care for our patients both to help them avoid surgery, or if they need surgery, to recover properly and well, and then to use our training and fitness team, which is all in-house, for life fitness training and checkups every year or more frequently. And so we think that the patients who buy into that approach, who, you know, treat themselves like a pro athlete would treat themselves as an athlete in training and not a patient in rehab. That's right. Do the best. And when we communicate that well, and when we bond with the patient well, then, then really we're treating whatever brought them to the clinic at first, but we're treating them for a lifetime and adding in all the new things that we're doing research on, you, other people are doing research on, and we're learning from, and trying to help that patient play forever. And that, that's our approach.