Restoring Human Movement - For the Outdoor Lovers

I started a closed Facebook group with the goal of improving our patient education and communication, so we can all accomplish better outcomes with these people who've trusted us as guides to accomplish their goals. I think if we can improve our communication (verbal, visual and kinesthetic), we can better assist our patients in completion of their treatment plan (what that is it's up to you) so t...

I've been fortunate to have worked with Brenan Ghassemieh, Strength Coach, while overcoming a lumbar spine injury I sustained last year 2017. My goal was to be able to play baseball again (recreationally) in the 2018 spring season, which I was able to do so! Booyah! Throughout our strength and conditioning sessions over the last year, Brenan and I have had some great conversations about cueing, st...

I had the opportunity to speak to Dr. Andy Galpin PhD on the podcast recently. I thought his point of view as researcher would be extremely informative to clinicians like myself, that claim to be an "evidence-based provider." Are we actually practicing what the evidence shows? Should we only practice what the evidence shows? These are just a few of the touch points Dr. Gaplin covered for us today....

Today's episode was the first stab at having on a co-host, my good friend and great diagnostician Dr. Cody Dimak DC. I feel we can do better as a dual host on this particular topic of lower extremity syndromes. What do all of these syndromes have in common? Is there a common intersection point? Do we always have to use manual therapies to treat these?  CORRELATED ARTICLE (MUST READ) Show Notes   B...

SHOW NOTES Did you know back pain within the gymnast population was so prevalent? I didn't until the interview with Dr. Sloan Beard DC. She practices in Birmingham AL and is the creator of an online course called the The Gymnast Fix . If you think about it, it all makes sense… kids being pushed 6-8 hours a day into bendy positions… sounds like a lot of spinal injuries right? In this podcast interv...

As healthcare providers, we normally suck at getting our message out into the public eye. SHOW NOTES Even though I'm much better at now, I sucked hard at it for years. Allow me to share some of my secrets for content creation with you. I've heard all of the reasons why my friends don't produce content: Too busy The kids keep me away Patient loads I don't know what to say I don't know where to star...

SHOW NOTES If you've spent time on Instagram, you may not know Dr. Aaron Horschig DPT by name, but you probably follow his profile. Squat University! Dr. Horschig was a pleasure to have on the show. He's a very knowledgeable, personable doctor and if my family lived in Kansas City MO, I'd send my mother, father and the brother I never had to him for care. His treatment style makes complete sense....

SHOW NOTES In this podcast, I thought I'd do some casual, conversational stories because as I listened to the past few solo sessions, I realized something… I've been staying "um" way too much! I want to break myself of that, so I'll just roll with a few fun story style this time. These are stories about clinical practice, a few "A-ha moments," and some fun days I've had at work with some great pat...

I thought I should take this opportunity in SESSION 100 to highlight the best of the best of the last 99 episodes and share some of my experiences in making this podcast for you all. To be honest, the show is still evolving, I'm still evolving and the direction of the show is changing slightly. Since I don't make my living through being a podcast host, producer and promoter, I have fallen short on...

SHOW NOTES I've had a few Calf/ Ankle/ Foot issues over the year, some from running and one from trauma.  The largest ankle tendonitis I've ever had was from dropping glass on my inner ankle. The glass incident left me unable to put weight on my ankle for almost a month! As I've come to find out, many people listening to the podcast and digging through my articles have been struggling with chronic...

SHOW NOTES Dr. Bobby Maybee DC, was introduced to me through another guest, Dr. Kevin Christie. Through a series of emails, we came to a rough podcast topic... "How we (clinicians) can communicate to patients in a simple, empathetic and clear way." As we started to record, it became clear to me that Bobby was great storyteller… and although he gave some great tips, I think the biggest take away wa...

SHOW NOTES I thought I'd sit down and go through my story about how I developed an oblique strain playing baseball, how I rehabbed it successfully to play baseball again and what I would do differently next time (if there ever is a next time). I posted an article and video about my story that has gotten a lot of attention on the web, which translates into people emailing me to ask me questions abo...

SHOW NOTES I met Dr. Jen Esquer at a seminar in 2018... not being too much of an Instagram junkie, someone in the course said, "Hey! Doc Jen Fit is here!" After looking into what Dr. Jen is all about, I had to have her on the podcast for an interview. The interesting part about her content to me is that it's laid out in a very customer friendly way with great illustrations and it's very up to date...

SHOW NOTES I met Michael Bann at the Rehab 2 Performance 1st Annual Symposium in 2018. One of the nights following the presentations we all went out to the local brewery for beer and grub because let's face it… chiropractors love beer and food. Within the time frame of a few beers and food Michael had blown my mind more than twice with a few of his theories. In this podcast session,  we didn't inc...

SHOW NOTES Dr. Tom Michaud is the man when it comes to knowledge about the foot and ankle in the running world. I ordered his book, Human Locomotion , read some his articles and listened to some interview before reaching out for this interview. I was blown away by the clinical pearls he has stored in his mind. Literally endless amounts of knowledge! If you're a student, you should invest some mone...

SHOW NOTES Brian Carroll is a lifting God… yes, he's lifted more weights that you, me, your brother and my sister combined throughout his life but the value Brian is bring to the table in this podcast are bits of wisdoms he's attend through lifting, lifting injuries and coming back as a world class athlete. When I started practice almost 10 years ago, I thought I knew enough about weightlifting to...

SHOW NOTES I've gotten a lot more emails from listeners over the past few months about their "rotator cuff tears," "carpal tunnel syndromes," or "tennis elbows," which I'm thankful for, but the sad thing is based upon what these people say there's a strong possibility that their ongoing pain is rooting from a neck condition (or some other region). These people have been seeking care and advanced i...

SHOW NOTES I attended Michael Shacklock's Upper and Lower Quarter Neurodynamics course in Spring of 2018 and it was one of those seminars that completely changed the way I looked at my patients on Monday morning. Michael presented for four days on some awesome ways we can test to see if a patient has a neuro component to their symptoms. Surprisingly many conditions that have a partial neuro aspect...

SHOW NOTES Based on my observations working with patients for the past 8+ years, I found there are a few recurring conversations I have with patients. They often bring these points up well after the first exam date. I believe these points to be their unspoken objections or beliefs about their body/ injury. When we believed the world was flat, people didn't want to sail too far… because of the unsp...

Session 89: Listener Questions: Hip Pain (FAI & Hip Flexor Tightness) and Knee Pain (Meniscus, Pes Anserinus, Patellofemoral Pain)  SHOW NOTES In this podcast session, I go through some of my emails and comments from listeners. There seemed to be a lot of questions about knees and hips so I took the best ones… I apologize to anyone's questions who won't be answered but I'm attempting to address al...

SHOW NOTES Dr. Quinn Henoch DPT is an innovator in the sports medicine world… why? He has an awesome vision of the future of sports medicine. Often times athletes leave their doctor's office frustrated with the prescription to "take 3 weeks off." That's needed sometimes but it's very individualized to the person and the injury.   Quinn understands athletes because he is one, but how can you find s...

SHOW NOTES I met Dr. Snell in Colorado this year while he was presenting at the Rehab to Performance Symposium on the topic of back pain and clinical reasoning. Seems like a general enough topic for a chiropractor right? The funny thing is that many healthcare providers don't have a systematic way to resolving back pain because they've never dug deep enough to uncover the main reason of the patien...

SHOW NOTES I reached out to Dr. Ryan DeBell DC, of The Movement Fix, to help young clinicians, trainers and students develop businesses similar to his… if they desired. Dr. DeBell started a solo practice on his own. During his first few months of practice, he was able to successfully make $4000 in one day teaching at a seminar. Wow! This popularity lead to speaking engagements, workshops, podcasts...

SHOW NOTES Warren Hammer authored some of the first articles and books I read as I was starting into grad school. He's been practicing using various soft tissue methods since the 1960's… he landed on Facial Manipulation as his main tool. I couldn't help but reach out to him to see what he has learned over the past 50 years of soft tissue work, clinical experience and research. You'll enjoy his pas...

SHOW NOTES Brett Winchester was recommended by Dr. Richard Ulm (#67) , to speak about all things throwing. Dr. Winchester is a sports medicine clinician for the St. Louis Cardinals and has a true passion for the health of his pitchers. He has a unique was of keeping them healthy, strong and performing well. On our initial call about the podcast, he told me about how most pitchers (MLB, college, hi...