Mark Ottobre works with clients told they need back or shoulder fusion surgery. He starts them on a structured movement program and gives it three months before considering surgery, with most seeing significant improvement in the first four weeks.
How many times clients have come to us and said, the surgeon recommends I get my back fused, the surgeon recommends— oh man, how do you deal with it? Surgeon recommends shoulder— I'm like, let's just get— start getting you moving and actually give us at least 3 months. And I think after the first 4 weeks you'll probably notice that you feel a lot better. And always, like, we've got a couple of Google reviews where clients have said, you know, you helped us avoid back surgery, shoulder surgery.
When I hear that, that must be so rewarding for you.
It's funny when you say rewarding, because for me it's just doing my job. To me it's the stand it. So I don't like to attach— it's so rewarding for me, you know, this is what I've chosen to do. I've just also chosen to be the best damn personal trainer that you'll ever meet, and in that, I expect this result.
The advice that I give you, if it didn't do this, it'd be a failure.
