Episode 131
A useful definition of fitness: be able to help someone in an emergency. Massage therapist Jesse Prescott and I cover aging, accepting pain as normal, ground time, barefoot lifting and training for life instead of one sport.
78 Minutes – Mar 20, 2019
Episode 130
Most people with general low back pain or a nagging injury need the basics done well before they need a specialist. Here's what an athletic trainer and a chiropractor taught me about ice, x-rays and simple care.
53 Minutes – Mar 13, 2019
Episode 129
Starting a sports medicine practice is less about branding and more about systems: intake forms that ask the right questions, a simple website you own, low overhead, phones that don't lose people, and a pace that won't burn you out.
55 Minutes – Mar 6, 2019
Episode 128
One painful rep does not tell you which way your back wants to move. Here are three lessons I took from a back pain course: directional preference, nerve-driven shoulder pain, and squatting without using your spine as a lever.
50 Minutes – Feb 27, 2019
Episode 127
Heel pain that might be a nerve, nerves that adapt to load, and concussion care that starts with walking. Here is what interviewing experts changed about how I treat people, and why graded exposure beats babying an injury.
53 Minutes – Feb 20, 2019
Episode 126
A clinic website can do far more than act as a virtual business card. Here is how I treat mine like an unpaid employee that educates people, books them, takes payment and keeps overhead low.
68 Minutes – Feb 13, 2019
Episode 125
Coach Miguel Aragoncillo explains how changing the environment, skipping exercise names and teaching by feel helps people map their movement, break plateaus and learn faster than scripts or videos allow.
63 Minutes – Feb 6, 2019
Episode 124
Ground-level falls in older adults are far more dangerous than they look. Neurosurgeon Dr. Jefferson Chen walked me through why they happen at home, how normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) plays in, and why walking is step one.
50 Minutes – Jan 30, 2019
Episode 123
Most people with back pain know roughly what they should do and still don't do it. Here is why mindset comes before rehab, and what my own two back injuries, at 16 and at 35, taught me about getting better.
68 Minutes – Jan 23, 2019
Episode 122
Most aches and pains tolerate more load than you think. Here is how Cody Dimak and I decide when to add weight, when to load somewhere else, and why treating your body like it's fragile backfires.
63 Minutes – Jan 16, 2019