Why this exists
He did not set out to build a program.
Jonathan Bender was drafted into the NBA out of high school and scored ten points in his first professional game. Four seasons in, one arthroscopic surgery made his knees worse, not better. He played thirty more games and walked away at twenty-five.
Sitting in a park in Houston, he sketched a device to change the way weight travelled through his legs, and built the first version out of duct tape, cables and ankle weights from a corner pharmacy. He spent two years testing it, then took it to researchers at Purdue University. A year of training with it later, his knees were strong enough to sign with the New York Knicks — the first player to return to the NBA four years after his knees forced him out.
“If I can create a product that helps me, I know it’ll help everyone else.”
The method he used on himself is the method his team now runs for people over 50 who have been handed a surgery date and do not want it.
