Urgent Hospital Visit: A Mother's Intuition Saved Her Daughter

Hours passed. Blood tests, scans, worried whispers in the hallway. When the orthopedic surgeon finally walked into the room, the look on his face told me everything before he even opened his mouth. She needed emergency surgery. Immediately. It wasn’t growing pains at all. It was a severe bone infection — osteomyelitis — spreading fast through her tibia and dangerously close to her bloodstream. The surgeon told me that if we had waited even one more night, she could have gone septic. I felt sick.

Alan Salgado Espino on Instagram: "I started doing tibial rotations daily… and the difference wasn’t subtle. Before: • My knee felt “stuck” in deep flexion • Cutting felt awkward • My hips and ankles fought for movement • I couldn’t trust rotation under load After: ✅ Better tibial glide + rotation ✅ More effortless squats + lunges ✅ Cleaner deceleration mechanics ✅ Knee feels supported instead of compensating Here’s why this works (backed by biomechanics): 🔹 The tibia doesn’t just follow the kn