The FAI Fix is no longer open to new students.
The FAI Fix was a joint effort between Matt Hsu of Upright Health and Shane Dowd from 2015 to 2024.
To serve you with faster updates, more in-depth troubleshooting, honest perspectives, and a more complete hip program, I parted ways with Shane Dowd.
Old students are still able to access the program and have also been granted access to the updated Healthy Hips program at uprighthealth.com.
If you're looking to help yourself with hip pain, click the button below.
A Brief History of the FAI Fix and Clarification on Hip Programs
In 2013, I released the first edition of the Healthy Hips program to help people with hip pain. In 2015, I asked Shane Dowd of GotROM.com to partner with me to build a program for people with FAI.
Things were rocky at the start, but I was young and inexperienced. We forged ahead. Over 8 years working together, I was constantly uncomfortable with his approach to business and marketing. Things felt wrong to me on many levels. But we persevered.
After losing both my parents to dementia in 2022 and 2023, I stepped back and reassessed my relationship with Shane. I clearly saw that I did not want to waste any more life or energy partnered with someone with whom I had so much discomfort and friction.
While I am proud of the work we did on this program and the lives we changed, I am more excited by what I can offer on my own. I have massively upgraded and updated the Healthy Hips program to help people with hip pain.
The program is comprehensive. I can update it as frequently as I wish. I can communicate freely and clearly about its strengths and weaknesses. Nothing and no one holds me back. This allows me to be as honest and effective as possible.
Healthy Hips Confusion
My hope was that this fork in the road would lead Shane to develop his own online course with his own unique content and perspective. In my heart of hearts, I wish I could heartily recommend Shane's own independent project.
Unfortunately, since closing the FAI Fix, I've seen him make highly dubious promises about his coaching program, claim that he was the founder of the FAI Fix, and even use testimonials from my clients to market his dubious coaching program.
He has also added "Healthy Hips" to some of his marketing pages to make it appear that we are still in some way connected. This has clearly caused confusion. We have received multiple emails asking for clarification.
Let me be clear:
- If you are on a website with Shane Dowd's face on it, it is not in any way affiliated with Upright Health.
- Any "Healthy Hips" references on GotROM.com or hippaingone.com are not evidence that we are affiliated.
- Because of deceptive and deliberately confusing practices, I do not currently endorse or recommend any GotROM.com program or course.
- If you see any content featuring me in a GotROM.com program, I ask that you notify my team at uprighthealth.com/contact
IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT FEMOROACETABULAR IMPINGEMENT
The conventional medical theory is that the bad bone shapes lead to labral tears, arthritis, pain, and immobility.
Surgery is supposed to be the only answer.
Recent research on hip impingement undermines that theory.
FAI bone shapes are normal anatomic variants and not indicative of a disease.
Cam and pincer impingement do not lead to arthritis
- Predictors of progression of osteoarthritis in femoroacetabular impingement: a radiological study with a minimum of ten years follow-up.
- Pincer deformity does not lead to osteoarthritis of the hip whereas acetabular dysplasia does: acetabular coverage and development of osteoarthritis in a nationwide prospective cohort study.
Labral tears and other joint pathologies aren't linked to hip pain
