Why Does this Exist?

This is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.  Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. 

What’s the benefit to you?

This whole effort is all about helping people get information, access, and hope when something seems amiss with their health.

Consider this an experiment led by David Ring, the Associate Dean for Comprehensive Care at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. We’re starting with problems of the arm, but it should apply to health in general.

It’s about the process. This is just one tool to help gently point people to the most accurate, hopeful, and enabling health information. Help us improve this process and this tool.

Our community will be healthier when we gift people information about their health.

I use this with my patients today.  Tools like this can sets up a good interaction with a clinician. It gives you the tools you need to ask the right questions.

This website presents expert opinions based on the following:

  1. The best available scientific evidence.

  2. How the human mind works.

Health is a matter of finding the problems that need treatment.  For example penicillin for strep throat. Or carpal tunnel release for moderate carpal tunnel syndrome.

But equally or more important are healthy eating, healthy activity, and healthy mindset and circumstances.

The tone of this website encourages a healthy mindset based on the following principles:

  1. Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence symptoms and limitations.

  2. Err towards the most adaptive, hopeful, and practical concepts.

  3. Demonizing hand and arm use is usually inaccurate, and never improves health.

  4. Pain seems harmful at first, but that’s usually not the case.