35 - Rest Isn't Always Best: Surgeon Dr Boynton On Healing Your Pain After 40 (Part 1)

You’ve rested the knee, the shoulder, the back. It felt better. Then it came back. Dr. Erin Boynton explains why.

She was the first female orthopaedic surgeon in the MLB and the NHL, and she says rest eases pain but never fixes the cause — and she has a car-and-tire analogy that makes it click in about ten seconds.

Part one of two: why your pain keeps returning, what your MRI actually means, and the patients she sent away with exercises instead of surgery.