Untold Physio Stories

Can a Mirror Box help a patient improve numbness in her arm?  Listen in as physiotherapist Dr. Andrew Rothchild, at @ARothschildPT  on Twitter and Instagram and co-host of the Healthcare Disruption podcast shares his story. Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IAST...

What would you think if you found “horrible crepitus, lack of range of motion,” 50 degrees total, in a patient’s hip? Listen in to story about a misdiagnosis of moderate hip osteoarthritis turning out to be a fracture needing a full hip replacement! Thank you to listener Dr. Allan Bronstein, physiotherapist, for sharing his story.   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play...

What can happen when a patient returns to sport too early after an injury? Re-injury perhaps? Listen in to find out more about a patient who re-injures his knee by returning to soccer too early. Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, EDGE Mobility Bands, webin...

How often do you work with 95 year old patients in your practice? Listen in to how differently two 95 year olds present to physical therapy.   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, EDGE Mobility Bands, webinars, ebooks, Pain Science Education products and mor...

How do you diagnose Achilles issues?  This 5 min podcast gives you the 2 most accurate clinical tests for diagnosing issues with this tendon.   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, EDGE Mobility Bands, webinars, ebooks, Pain Science Education products and mo...

Co-host Dr. Erson Religioso shares a story that has taken him a year to be able to share.  What happens when there are no red flags, the patient responds to treatment, but…listen to find out more. Check out one of most popular podcasts, Red Flags Part 1 and Sian Smale’s Review of Red Flags on Modern Manual Therapy Blog.   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untol...

Does it matter if you tape proximal to distal or medial to lateral and vice versa? Listen in to Dr. Erson’s Religioso’s story to find out!   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, EDGE Mobility Bands, webinars, ebooks, Pain Science Education products and more!...

A patient gets hit in the jaw with a softball…twice! But, the successful treatment for it is…giving up gluten! Listen in to find out more. Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, EDGE Mobility Bands, webinars, ebooks, Pain Science Education products and more! C...

  What happens when patient’s are used to 30min of manual therapy and it gets replaced with 30-45min of pain science and education with as little manual therapy as possible? Listen in to Dr. Erson Religioso’s story and what he learned from it. Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mo...

Do you have “A black belt in interrupting?” How good of listener are you? Current research has demonstrated how important it is to just let your patient tell their story, uninterrupted, for the first 2-3min of the initial assessment.   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility T...

Have you ever failed at business? If so, listen in to hear UpDoc Media’s own Dr. Ben Fung’s story of when a boss tries to be the “nice boss” with an unsuccessful result. We can only say Epic Fail! Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, EDGE Mobility Bands, web...

Have you every had to advocate for a patient? In this episode Dr. Ben Fung of Updoc media identifies a condition that had been missed in a patient initial assessment. The best part is…the story has a positive ending.   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, ED...

Transverse Abdominus (TA) training, should we still be doing it?  On this week’s show we have two Canadians! Scotty Butcher from  Strength Rebels  tell us his thoughts on training the TA.   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, EDGE Mobility Bands, webinars,...

When “something just doesn’t seem right.” This week we have Dr. Ivo Waerlop of The Gait Guys back for an encore performance of when further investigation/imaging is needed. Check out Ivo’s other site for Dry Needling information and seminars at Functional Integrative Rehabiliation Education . Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored...

  If it had feet, I was going to put an orthotic under that foot. Join Dr. Ivo Waerlop of Rehab Chalk Talk and The Gait Guys in this story about trying to improve the last 20% of all patients who are not responding. Make sure to check out Dr. Ivo’s sites, his own Gait Guys podcast and his great Dry Needling courses and videos on Rehab Chalk Talk!   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe...

Starting out a business is tough! If you have some family as a potential referral source, that would make it easier, right? Right? Find out what happened to Cash Based PT guru Aaron LeBauer of lebauerconsulting.com.   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, EDG...

How long does patellar tedinopathy  take to heal?  Dr. Zach Long of  The Barbell Physio  shares a story of when a patient’s expectations of time to heal and the actual time collide. Check out Zach’s products on EDGE Moblity System!   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Too...

Welcome to Season 3 of Untold Physio Stories! In this hilarious and honest story, Nelson Adrian, of TherAdvance tells us how he passed one of his many Diplomat programs, this time in old school Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy.   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool...

A can’t miss episode this week where a treatment of dry needling gone awry!  Canadian physiotherapist Tashina Van Vlack shares this can’t miss story. The entire story is only 5 min long.   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, EDGE Mobility Bands, webinars, e...

A 9 year old with a suspected cervical spine fracture caused by a very poignant topic, bullying. Thank you to our guest this week, Sian Smale of the blog www.raynersmale.com . Be sure to check her blog. Image credit Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, EDGE...

This week Andrew Rothschild shares with us one of his “failures” that as he describes “ended disastrously.”  Listen in to find out more.   Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, EDGE Mobility Bands, webinars, ebooks, Pain Science Education products and more! C...

Do you have any patients who are “lifers.”  Should we discharge them?  Do they need continual reinforcement?  As practitioners we all have them and in this episode Jesse Awenus talks about this important topic.  To keep up and read his excellent blogs, visit  jessephysio.com header image credit Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsore...

Is all pain due to an anterior related pelvis?  What if a guru taught you  this was the case?  Jesse Awenus shares a story from when he was a new grad and was exposed to, bought in, and then rejected this appealing concept.  To keep up and read his excellent blogs, visit  jessephysio.com . Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by...

Therapeutic Ultrasound – Do you use it?  In this episode Dr. Kory Zimney shares a story where Ultrasound substantially improved a patient’s back pain, 8/10 pain to 2/10 pain…but not for the reason you may think.  To keep up with Kory, follow him on twitter @zimneykj Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Music Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System...

A patient is presented with two options, an more aggressive approach that may flare them up but have faster results or, less aggressive and take longer.  The patient choose the “faster” approach…listen in to find out what happens.  Thanks to Gene Shirokobrod for returning for a follow up episode. To find about more about Gene follow him on  Updoc Media  and his podcast  Therapy Insiders . Please s...