Pain that keeps coming back
Rest helps until activity resumes. The book focuses on the movement patterns and weak links that keep an injury returning.
📘 Revised and expanded edition
Built From BrokenA science-based guide to healing painful joints, preventing injuries, and rebuilding the body
Corrective exercise, mobility work, and connective tissue training, written for people who want to move well again rather than give up the activities they love.
Scott Hogan, a certified personal trainer and orthopedic exercise specialist, wrote Built From Broken for people whose joints hurt and who have been told the only options are rest, pills, or surgery. The book explains how tendons, ligaments, and cartilage respond to training, why most joint problems come from how the body moves rather than from age alone, and lays out step-by-step programs to rebuild strength and mobility. It is meant to be used alongside a doctor's or physical therapist's guidance, not instead of it.
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A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body.
The subtitle is a fair summary. The book is not a stretching routine or a list of supplements. It is a training manual: how connective tissue adapts, how to load it slowly so it remodels, and how to build a program that fits a real schedule.
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Why many readers pick up this book
Joint pain is often treated as something to live with. Many people want a structured plan to work on it instead.
Told it is just age
Hogan argues that stiffness and pain often come from tissue that has not been trained, not simply from getting older.
Wanting a program, not a tip
Instead of scattered exercises, the book provides full programs chosen by fitness level and available time.
What readers can take from the book
A method for rebuilding joints that can be followed at home or in a gym.
How connective tissue heals
Plain-language chapters on collagen synthesis, tendon remodeling, and why slow resistance training matters.
Mobility and movement quality
Drills for ankles, hips, shoulders, and spine, plus a short Morning Mobility Routine.
Load management
How to briefly deload an overused joint and then reload it gradually so it adapts instead of flaring up.
What's inside
Four parts of the book
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The science of joint pain
How tendons, ligaments, and cartilage work and why they break down.
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Corrective exercise
Fixing the movement patterns behind knee, back, and shoulder problems.
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Training programs
A new Foundations Program for balance, stability, and core strength, plus beginner to advanced plans.
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Exercise appendix
Every movement with page references, in a lay-flat binding for use during workouts.
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Paperback, Kindle, audioAudiobook comes with a companion PDF of the exercises
Revised editionExpanded with new programs and an exercise appendix
A simple next step
Read the free sample, then decide
Amazon lets you preview the first pages of the Kindle edition at no cost. If the approach feels right, the full book is a few clicks away and can be on a phone or tablet in under a minute.
Joints respond to how they are used. A clear training plan gives them a reason to get stronger.