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Dr. Hoopes focuses on surgical and non-operative treatments of lower extremity injuries, specifically those involving the knee, foot, and ankle.

He is an expert at surgery, but can often find non-operative treatments for injuries when others have not.

10/31/2026

I got glasses I didn't need because I thought they'd make me look older.

At 18, I still hadn't gone through puberty. While everyone around me was growing into adulthood, I was trying to figure out how to look and act like I belonged.

The glasses were a small part of a much larger strategy. I learned to perform a version of masculinity that I thought the world would accept. I built a façade to conceal the parts of myself I was ashamed of.

Even after hormone treatment changed my body, that façade stayed...for another 30 years.

I think a lot of men do something similar, even without the unusual medical history. We build identities around achievement, toughness, competence, and control, often without realizing what we're trying to protect underneath.

Mike Allen and I explore this in a deeply personal conversation on the Heare Brotherhood podcast, coming next week on Thursday, November 5th.

10/30/2026

Six inches of growth. Sixty pounds. Six months.

I was 18 years old when a doctor finally figured out why I'd never gone through puberty. Once I started hormone treatment, my body changed almost overnight.

But something happened during all those years of waiting that couldn't be fixed with hormones.

I'd spent my adolescence trying to look older, act tougher, and hide something about myself that I couldn't even explain. When my body finally caught up, I carried those insecurities into adulthood for another 30 years.

Mike Allen and I sat down for a deeply personal conversation about masculinity, shame, the identities we build to protect ourselves, and what happens when we finally begin to understand the younger versions of ourselves.

The full conversation with the Mike Allen at Heare Brotherhood drops Thursday, November 5.

10/18/2026

The infamous Hoopes "Upside Down Fire." You put the biggest stuff on the bottom and then build smaller pieces in opposite directions as you go up until the last thing on the very top is the kindling. Then, when you start it you just sit back and enjoy as it burns down to the bigger stuff.

The benefit compared to starting with a little tiny teepee is that way you have to keep tending to it and adding stuff slightly bigger and bigger until you get to your full size fire and it takes a lot more work. This way, you just light it...and then sit back and enjoy.

10/12/2026

And yes, I still do orthopedic surgery! Check out our new practice in Provo and Orem, opening in November, Ridgeline Orthopedic Specialists

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10/11/2026

A DEXA scan is not just a bone density test.

That is how most people know it.

Osteopenia.

Osteoporosis.

Fracture risk.

Lumbar spine and hip measurements.

And yes, that matters a lot.

But the deeper value is that a DEXA scan can also give us a map of body composition.

Where are you holding fat?

How much lean mass do you have?

How much muscle do you have in your arms and legs?

How much fat is sitting around the abdomen?

And especially:

How much visceral fat is inside the abdominal cavity?

That matters because visceral fat is not just storage.

It is metabolically active tissue.

It can send inflammatory signals.

It can worsen insulin resistance.

It can affect hormones, cardiovascular risk, and the way the whole system behaves.

So when we look at a DEXA scan, we are not just asking:

How much do you weigh?

That number is too crude.

Two people can weigh the same and have completely different physiology.

One may have more muscle, better bone density, and less visceral fat.

The other may have less muscle, weaker bones, and more inflammatory abdominal fat.

Same scale weight.

Very different metabolic picture.

That is why I like objective testing.

Not because the scan defines you.

Not because every number needs to be perfect.

But because it shows us the terrain.

Bone.

Muscle.

Fat.

Visceral fat.

The goal is not just to get smaller.

The goal is to become stronger, more metabolically healthy, more resilient, and harder to break.

A DEXA scan gives us a clearer picture of where to start.

Educational only. Not personal medical advice.

10/05/2026

What if worthiness is not something we climb toward?

This came up for me during General Conference.

Sometimes religion can start to feel transactional.

Do the right things.

Check the right boxes.

Repent enough.

Improve enough.

Become worthy enough.

Then maybe, someday, you finally become acceptable to God.

But the opposite framing can also feel incomplete:

Just believe, and nothing else matters.

I don’t think either frame gets it quite right.

Maybe the better frame is alignment.

What if you are not starting at 20 and trying to work your way up to 100?

What if, in the deepest sense, you were already created at 100?

Already a child of God.

Already carrying divine nature.

Already loved.

Already worth saving.

Already worthy of being reached for by Christ.

Then the work of repentance, commandments, discipleship, and change becomes something different.

Not a desperate attempt to earn love.

Not a performance to become acceptable.

Not a transaction.

Instead, it becomes the process of bringing your life into alignment with the divinity that was already placed inside you.

That is still hard work.

Maybe the hardest work.

But it comes from a totally different place.

Not shame.

Not lack.

Not “I am less than, and maybe one day I will be enough.”

But:

There is something divine in me, and my life is not yet fully aligned with it.

Christ seemed to see that divine nature in the people everyone else had pushed to the edges.

The woman at the well.

The sinners.

The outcasts.

The people who were told they did not belong.

He did not start by telling them they were worthless.

He helped them remember who they were.

Maybe grace is the truth that we are already loved.

And discipleship is what happens when we finally believe it enough to live differently.

10/03/2026

Thanks for making the connection, Sally Price !

There is a kind of strength that does not announce itself.

It does not dominate the room.

It does not force the river.

It does not confuse control with power.

The Tao Te Ching seems to keep pointing toward this quieter intelligence. The valley. The water. The mother. The receptive place inside us that can listen before it acts.

I think this is part of the divine feminine.

And it is not only found in women.

It lives inside every person.

Including men.

Maybe part of becoming whole is learning to let the masculine and feminine speak to each other again.

The feminine senses what is true.

The masculine gives it form.

The feminine opens.

The masculine protects.

The feminine listens.

The masculine acts in service of what has been heard.

When those two are separated, strength can become brittle. Action can become performance. Structure can lose its soul.

But when they come back into balance, power becomes something different.

Less like domination.

More like stewardship.

Less like conquest.

More like protection.

Water does not look powerful at first.

But it shapes stone.

Maybe the deepest masculine power is not the refusal of softness.

Maybe it is strength that has learned how to listen.

10/02/2026

Content warning: sexual assault.
In the Cornell 7 case, I think we may be having the wrong discussion.
Yes, consent matters.
Yes, due process matters.
Yes, the legal system has to sort through evidence, statements, intoxication, memory, and criminal standards.
But there is another conversation that should not be hard.
If a woman is intoxicated, impaired, isolated, surrounded, pressured, or vulnerable, the masculine response should not be:
How much can I get away with?
It should be:
How do I create safety?
That is the part I think we are missing.
The highest expression of masculinity is not conquest.
It is protection.
It is restraint.
It is strength in service of safety.
It is the ability to create a container where the feminine can exist without fear, without coercion, without being reduced, used, or consumed.
I use masculine and feminine here symbolically. Both exist inside each of us. But in a situation like the one being alleged, the masculine should have shown up as order, protection, courage, and intervention.
Not escalation.
Not performance.
Not group cowardice.
Not turning a vulnerable human being into an opportunity.
A truly masculine man does not need a prosecutor to explain that something is wrong when an impaired woman is in a room full of men and the situation is becoming unsafe.
He knows.
And if needed, he uses his strength, his voice, his body, his social power, and even his willingness to create conflict to get her out of that situation.
That is what strength is for.
Not to dominate vulnerability.
To protect it.
So yes, we can talk about consent.
But consent is the floor.
The question for men should be higher than:
Was this technically defensible?
The question should be:
Did I create safety?
Did I protect dignity?
Did I listen?
Did I honor the humanity of the person in front of me?
Did my strength serve something sacred?
Because what is being alleged in this case is not masculinity.
It is the collapse of masculinity.
And we should say that clearly.

10/01/2026

The past hasn't happened yet.

09/21/2026

What if the end of Moana is not about destroying evil?

What if it is about integration?

A friend Tasi Young brought this up today, and I have not been able to stop thinking about it.

At the end of the movie, Te Kā looks like the villain.

Fire.

Rage.

Destruction.

Chaos.

Maui responds the way the masculine often responds when it sees a threat.

He prepares to fight.

He gets big.

He gets loud.

He is ready to meet force with force.

But Moana does something different.

She does not fight Te Kā.

She recognizes her.

She walks toward the rage with presence.

She carries the heart back.

And she says, essentially:

I know who you are.

That moment is not just a battle scene.

It is an internal map.

Inside all of us, there are masculine parts that want order, strength, protection, action, and control.

There are feminine parts that carry emotion, chaos, creation, destruction, beauty, grief, and renewal.

And then there is something deeper.

The truest self.

The higher self.

The part that can see all of these forces without being possessed by any one of them.

Too much masculine order becomes domination.

Too little masculine order becomes collapse.

Too much feminine chaos becomes destruction.

Too little feminine chaos becomes sterility, numbness, and a life with no creativity.

The goal is not to kill one part of ourselves.

The goal is balance.

The volcano is not bad.

The greenery is not the only good.

The volcano creates the land.

The green life grows from it.

The people then learn to live in relationship with both.

That is the teaching.

We do not become whole by destroying the parts of us that scare us.

We become whole when the highest part of us can walk toward them, recognize them, restore the heart, and bring the whole system back into harmony.

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