The speaker recounts a traumatic spinal fusion surgery performed at age 15, which left two metal rods spanning his spine and caused severe chronic pain, limited mobility, and frequent bedridden periods. Despite staying active in snowboarding, any misstep could trigger intense back pain and emotional distress, affecting his work and overall quality of life. He later met Glenn Dawson through a mastermind group, initially skeptical of Dawson’s claim to “fix” such issues. After a video call where Dawson assessed the speaker’s squat and identified a misaligned pelvis contributing to the pain, they performed a series of corrective actions, including foam rolling and pelvic realignment. The speaker experienced immediate improvement—walking felt correct for the first time in years—and continued to notice progressive relief. This shift altered his long‑term outlook, replacing the belief that he would end up wheelchair‑bound with confidence that proper alignment can sustain functional mobility.
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When I was, uh, 15, about to turn 16, they like spliced me open, put two metal rods in my spine, took a bunch of bone chip from my hip and fused my spine together. So my spine has two metal rods in it from like here to here basically, and, uh, severely limits my mobility. Needless to say, that led to some, uh, back issues. Who would have thought? Uh, I was still able to kind of do everything that I wanted to do, you know. I do a lot of snowboarding, all that good stuff, you know. One wrong move, one wrong fall, something like that, you know, even wrong step while I was walking could literally put me in bed for a couple days, or I'm just kind of laying there. There were literally days where, you know, I was in bed for 2 or 3 days. I'd get up and like pretty much be in tears, it hurt so bad. My working was affected, um, pretty much my whole life. I was like, I'm stuck in a, in a bed, which sucks, you know. Ended up meeting Glenn Dawson Dawson Dawson at a mastermind that we were all in, kind of talking with him a little bit. He was like, oh yeah, I fixed stuff like that. I didn't believe him. Long story short, we ended up jumping on a call. He's like, hey, hold this broom over your head do a squat. He analyzed my squat. He's like, dude, something's seriously wrong with your spine. We got to get that fixed, man. Your pelvis is way out of line. And that's why you're having pain, like in the exact spots that I was having pain. He's like, does it hurt right here? I was like, yeah. So we reset it all, did some foam rolling. Like that first call we had, I went and walked the dogs after that. And I— it was the weirdest thing. Like I could actually feel that my body was just walking correctly. I was like, what? This is what it's supposed to be like? You know, gradually it's just been getting better and better, staying where it's supposed to be. You know, I always assumed that when I was, you know, after I got the surgery, I was like, dude, when I'm old, I'm screwed. You know, I'm gonna be like, oh, I'm in a wheelchair, whatever it is. You know, like keeping up with this, making sure that, you know, everything's in alignment, everything's working correctly. Like, I don't feel like that has to be the case anymore.
