Restoring Human Movement - For the Outdoor Lovers

SHOW NOTES Are you a young doc treating patients with back pain, hip pain, groin pain or IT Band Syndrome? Did you know often times patients will be given a misdiagnosis, they hold onto dearly, before they walk into your office? That's right! People are being misdiagnosed… I've done it, you've done it, we've all have done it and it's mainly from lack of knowing what to look for, what to test and w...

SHOW NOTES Dr. Tom Fletcher shares some of his observations about hip pain in endurance populations. Runners, cyclists and triathletes will be interested in this podcast session. Tom and I met years ago, working at an Ironman Triathlon. He is a triathlon junkie himself and is a great example of a treating doctor who gets into the culture of his patients. He practice in Sandy UT, just outside of Sa...

SHOW NOTES Functional Neurology is a subset of sports medicine, chiropractic and rehab I've been interested in since I interviewed Dr. Erik Reis back in Session 42 . I was referred to have on two other docs about topics surrounding Functional Neurology in follow up podcast sessions, Dr. Michael Lovich (45)and Dr Kolby Condos (75). All of them had such great knowledge to bring to the table so I had...

SHOW NOTES Benjamin Brown was referred to be a speaker on the show and with most possible interviewees I do a phone call to chat first. Ben's passion for helping people manage their lives through nutrition bled through the conversation so I had to have him on. He will be going over some cases we created to simulate the profiles and goals of some listeners. He also goes into other nutritional advic...

SHOW NOTES I was introduced to Stephane by another guest I had on the podcast, Ben Brown. Stephane is a master at exercise programming and an extremely educated man in the fitness industry. He just opened a gym around the corner from my office in Huntington Beach CA. I asked him to share his experiences in types of training/exercise, strength training concepts, and some myths of training. Some of...

SHOW NOTES If you're like most people, you encounter frequent, daily stressors. You're not alone. Did you ever think about taking a physical chill pill rather than numbing your mind/ body? People numb themselves to de-stress, to get away from their thoughts. Some examples of common de-stressing habits: Watching TV Beer/ wine Drugs Kori Strobl ( Her Website )  explains how she uses her style of yog...

SHOW NOTES Trying to lose weight but that New Year's Resolution just isn't happening? Jennifer Zerling is on the mic today to share some less known facts about losing weight. Weight loss occurs more rapidly if we can jumpstart our metabolism and high intensity training is the tool for the job. HIITs is the acronym. HIITs can be categorized as a near maximum bout of effort in a small time frame (ie...

SHOW NOTES I was introduced to Jesse Macedo through a mutual friend. We've met in passing at Holiday Parties, Birthdays and Dinner… I've always enjoyed BSing with him about movement so I thought I'd have him on the podcast. I found over the course of our BSing that he really knows his shit! I asked him to assist me in educating the public about painless squatting during knee month and he jumped at...

SHOW NOTES In this podcast session we are going into how to test athletes for prevention of lower extremity injuries with over 80% certainty. Insane right?! Dr. Kolby Condos is going to talk about testing, movements and correction protocols with biofeedback. What is biofeedback? Funny, it seems to be a rather undefined term as you'll hear on the interview but this isn't a bad thing. Many clinics a...

SHOW NOTES Many of you have spent tons of time with physio bands if you've had a knee injury. In this podcast session, I speaking with Dr. Scott Dunaway, who is all about the band... but also getting beyond it. Rehab exercises, as all exercises, have progression and regressions. Bands are great when they're needed but your rehab should go well beyond the band. Ground contact/ transfer of force Roo...

SHOW NOTES I've had my fair share of injuries, trauma and non-traumatic based. I've had what most would call IT Band Pain, Lateral Meniscus tear, Compression Fracture of the lateral tibial plateau. I've been frustrated just like you, my knee injuries limited my baseball, lifting and running. Some treatments I used are: Physical Therapy Synvisc Injection Cortisone Injection Rest Ice H-Wave Active R...

SHOW NOTES I was going to do this session about rehab of hamstring conditions but I received an email from a exercise science student whom asked that I speak about the things I wish I had learned in school or things that I learned in school that changed when I started to see patients. I went with the 9 things I wish I knew about Sports Medicine while in school. You can find the checklist here: htt...

SHOW NOTES   Brenan Ghassemieh was introduced to me by a good friend, Dr. Cody Dimak ( Session 31 ), as the perfect guy to speak about training responsibility around injuries. Since we've been focusing on hamstring injuries, we kept that as a central focus BUT it's important to realize the body works as ONE UNIT and we can't separate regions in training and rehab. You'll hear this concept of centr...

SHOW NOTES Funny… I reached out to Nate since he has such great Youtube videos for runners but after emailing back and forth for a bit I realized we met 7 years ago at an Ironman 70.3 where I treated his hamstring. What a small world! He has a great story about how he dealt with his hamstring injury and how he came to use those same methods to assist runners have better running experience. Nate He...

SHOW NOTES In this session we are going into some personal accounts of hamstring strains. In school, clinicians seem to get the textbook presentations… then they get out into the real world of healthcare and see all of the uniqueness of people and situations. People are unique… this is why case studies are great. The patient's I'm interviewing are not people I have confirmed have a hamstring injur...

SHOW NOTES In this podcast I'll go over my personal experience with a hamstring tear to kick off hamstring month. I was devastated but have completely recovered. I'll reveal all of my secrets: The story of how the hamstring tore The recovery period of the hamstring tear How I rehab a hamstring tear How to grade a hamstring tear How to return to play from a hamstring tear If you haven't seen yet, I...

SHOW NOTES Back pain isn't the death sentence you think it is. Majority of people can get better with a little understanding and dedication. Dr. Stuart McGill PhD is a spine biomechanist at the University of Waterloo. Over the years, he has conducted numerous lab experiments on the human spine to figure out how much load it can take, what motions cause it to become injured and more. He's the autho...

SHOW NOTES I recently contacted the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) region director asking for an interview referral for the best person on this topic… her answer was Dr. Seth Myers. I thought it was funny he was the top suggestion because he is also a chiropractor. I thought I was going to be given the contact of someone who only does coaching. Dr. Myers didn't disappoint. T...

SHOW NOTES   I know it sounds boring but it won't be. If you have back pain you must listen to this podcast at least twice. Think of it as a crash course in human anatomy and biomechanics. Why should you want to know about the anatomy when all you want is the pain to go away? Because to gain control of your condition, you need to understand the reason it's occurring. A strong majority of people de...

SHOW NOTES In this podcast session, I wanted to share my personal story about low back pain. I developed lower back pain when I was playing high school baseball at the age of 15. It was not overuse related… it was traumatic. The reason I say this is because majority of people's low back pain seems to come out of thin air. Mine was a definite event. The injury put me out of my sport for 8 months, d...

SHOW NOTES   After receiving my copy of the Gift of Injury , the story of Brian Carroll's return to powerlifting after a horrific back injury, I asked the two authors to be on the podcast. Brian Carroll and Dr. Stuart McGill blend the worlds of science and powerlifting together perfectly… the moral of the story is that if Brian can feel better and win again then many other people/ weekend warriors...

SHOW NOTES Have pain you don't consider an injury but it lingers? Are you strong but constantly experience joint pain? Is your squatting form solid but your back still hurts? This is the podcast for you. Honestly this could be the most ground breaking concept you've ever hear as an athlete, lifter, runner or even health care clinician. I met Dr. Richard Ulm DC in Long Beach this year at the Perfor...

SHOW NOTES Why is being strong important? Why do we need "Anaconda Strength?" Why should you put down your morning latte and listen to this at the gym? Dan John, a world renown strength coach and public speaker, goes over these points as my guest today. I first heard Dan speak over 8 years ago at a RKC Kettlebell certification. Simply put, he makes complicated exercise/ movements simple. We spent...

 SHOW NOTES Did you know there's no pitch count restrictions in youth softball? Baseball has implemented one to protect our youth, so why not softball?   If our competitive softball players are going to play so much we should take the necessary steps in the off-season to get them healthy again.   Nancy Newell dropped a knowledge bomb on us today. This podcast is a must listen for competitive softb...

SHOW NOTES Numbness and tingling of the hand, arm, and forearm is an extremely common "injury" for both athletes and non-athletes. I figured we needed to do a podcast session on the upper extremity exclusively and Dr. Fontaine was my go-to-guy. The causes of numbness to the hand range from a pinched nerve in the neck, to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, to a peripheral neuropathy and much more… each condit...