Medicine

Daniel spent years in pain. Six orthopedists. Chiropractic care that helped for a day or two and then wore off. Trigger point injections. Acupuncture. An MRI and X-ray that both came back negative. A nerve ablation on the table as the next option. He found Saint Bartholomew as what he called a Hail Mary. In this episode of Medicine, Sean sits down with Daniel Wieber, the first client ever to appea...

Medicine | Episode 4 — From Chronic Pain to Clarity: A Conversation with Neal Hallinan Neal Hallinan spent fourteen years having three to four SI joint blowouts a year. He had tinnitus at thirteen, plantar fasciitis in both feet, a shoulder that fell apart while pitching, and a body that could not shift to its left side. He had no idea they were all the same problem. In this episode of Medicine, S...

Medicine | Episode 3 — The Foot as a Foundation: A Conversation with Dr. Maddy Walkner Most chronic pain doesn't begin where it hurts. In this episode of Medicine, Sean sits down with Dr. Maddy Walkner — foot and ankle surgeon, sports medicine specialist, and partner at Silverstone Podiatry on Manhattan's Upper East Side — for one of the more clinically surprising conversations we've had yet. What...

David Dunlop worked in elite college athletics coaching strength and conditioning at the University of Minnesota football program after playing the game himself at Louisiana Tech and Portland State.  Today, as Director of Performance at Saint Bartholomew, he works with a very different kind of athlete: people in chronic pain. In this episode, David shares the journey that brought him here, the pat...

What is medicine? Not pills. Not injections. Not surgery. Real medicine restores the body. In this first episode of Medicine, I explain what we believe medicine actually is — and why chronic pain persists when we treat symptoms instead of systems. I share: - The headache story that shaped my career - What I learned from studying the human body through performance training - Why traditional rehabil...