What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness

Ménière's disease is a complex inner ear disorder that can cause episodes of vertigo, hearing loss, tinnitus, and a feeling of fullness in the ear. While these symptoms can be frightening and unpredictable, there are many strategies that can help people better manage the condition and improve their quality of life. In this episode of What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness ,...

Somatic Tracking: A 5-Minute Guided Exercise to Calm Pain, Dizziness, and Other Symptoms In this special guided episode of What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness , Dr. Pete Schultz leads you through a simple five-minute somatic tracking exercise designed to help calm an overprotective nervous system. Somatic tracking is a core technique used in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and o...

In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness , Pete Schultz, DPT, OCS, takes a deep dive into fibromyalgia — a chronic widespread pain condition that is often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and frustrating for patients trying to find answers. Pete discusses how fibromyalgia is considered a clinical diagnosis , what symptoms are commonly associated with it, and why modern pa...

In this episode of What’s in Your Head, Dr. Pete Schultz breaks down the different types of low back pain commonly seen in physical therapy — and why low back pain is often much more complex than people think. Pete discusses: Lumbar disc herniations Sciatica and lumbar radiculopathy Spinal stenosis Lumbar strains and sprains Segmental stiffness and hypomobility SI joint and lumbar instability Pars...

Can your neck really cause dizziness or headaches? In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness , Dr. Pete Schultz, physical therapist, breaks down the topic of cervicogenic dizziness and cervicogenic headache—two conditions that can be confusing, frustrating, and often overlap with vestibular, migraine, and stress-related symptoms. You’ll learn how the neck, nervous syst...

In this special episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness , Pete Schultz, DPT, OCS, walks you through a simple, practical tool you can use when pain or dizziness starts to increase. This guided affirmation exercise is designed to help regulate your nervous system by providing consistent signals of safety to the brain. When symptoms ramp up, the nervous system can become more pro...

Episode 10: What is Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD) and How to Resolve It Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD) is a common but often misunderstood condition that can develop after a vestibular event like BPPV, vestibular neuritis, concussion, or vestibular migraine. Even after the initial issue improves, people are often left with ongoing dizziness, imbalance, and sensit...

Episode 9: Pain Reprocessing Therapy Chronic pain and persistent symptoms can be incredibly frustrating—especially when medical testing doesn’t clearly explain what you’re feeling. In this episode of What’s in Your Head , Dr. Pete Schultz discusses Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and a core technique called somatic tracking , a tool designed to help retrain the nervous system when pain persists be...

Hip and knee pain are some of the most common reasons people seek medical care, and many are told early on that they’ll eventually need a joint replacement. Imaging often shows arthritis or “bone-on-bone” changes, but those findings alone don’t determine when surgery is truly necessary. In this episode, Pete Schultz Doctor of Physical Therapy breaks down what hip and knee osteoarthritis actually i...

Episode Title: Migraine Beyond Medication: A Multi-Systems Approach Episode Description: Migraine is not just a headache — it’s a complex neurologic condition involving the nervous system, sensory processing, and multiple body systems. In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness , Dr. Pete Schultz, physical therapist, goes beyond medication and explores where conservativ...

Episode Summary In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness , Dr. Pete Schultz breaks down what biofeedback actually is —and just as importantly, what it isn’t. Biofeedback is not the treatment . It’s a measurement tool that lets us see the autonomic nervous system in real time. The real treatment is still things like breathing, muscle relaxation, visualization, meditation...

Episode 5 — Concussion: What’s Actually Happening and How to Fully Recover In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness , Pete Schultz, Doctor of Physical Therapy, breaks down what a concussion really is — and just as importantly, what it is not. Concussions are common in sports and everyday life — car accidents, falls, hitting your head, or even sudden force to the body....

Have you ever rolled over in bed, looked up, or laid down — and suddenly the entire room started spinning? In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness , Dr. Pete Schultz, Doctor of Physical Therapy, breaks down one of the most common — and most misunderstood — causes of vertigo: BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo) . BPPV can feel intense and alarming, often sendi...

In this episode of What’s in Your Head , we take a deep dive into the different types of headaches — and why understanding them matters. While many people think “a headache is just a headache,” different headache types reflect different patterns in the nervous system. Migraine, tension-type headaches, cervicogenic headaches, post-traumatic headaches, neuralgia, and new daily persistent headaches a...

Episode 2 — How the Autonomic Nervous System Drives Pain and Dizziness https://www.dynamicsportspt.com/ follow link to schedule an appointment for physical therapy. https://painanddizzy.com/ follow link for more information on pain and dizziness.   Episode 2 — How the Autonomic Nervous System Drives Pain and Dizziness In this episode of What’s in Your Head? , Dr. Pete Schultz explains how the auto...

https://www.dynamicsportspt.com/   To schedule a physical therapy appointment https://painanddizzy.com/  To learn more information on Pain and dizziness or email painanddizzy@gmail.com Why Pain Persists In the first episode of What’s In Your Head , Pete Schultz, PT, DPT, introduces a new way to understand pain — one that goes beyond tissues, scans, and diagnoses. Pain is real. But it’s not always...

https://painanddizzy.com/   To learn more information on Pain and Dizziness or email painanddizzy@gmail.com https://www.dynamicsportspt.com/      To schedule a physical therapy appointment  Have you ever struggled with pain, dizziness, or headaches that "look normal" on medical tests but still feel debilitating? Many individuals suffer from symptoms that persist long after they should ha...