Your Health Matters

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about my lessons from Instagram. I post many things on Instagram as I advocate for physical therapy and in one of my Instagram reels, I noticed one particular comment regarding getting an MRI. I wanted to talk about it now because I wanted to tell you more about pain in relation to the comment.   Tune in so you can understand more about the mi...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about managing tennis elbow based on my experience.  Tune in so you can have knowledge about how to treat your tennis elbow whether you are playing tennis or you suffer from the same situation because of your repetitive activities.  In this episode we discuss:  [0:51] Introduction to the topic [1:30] Background about tennis elbow  [4:39] What...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about my experience with my recent tennis tournament.  I will talk about how I prepared and what the match day looks like for me.    Tune in so you can have knowledge about how a tennis tournament goes down from firsthand experience and so you can pick up some ideas and inspiration if you are training towards and athletic goal.  In this episod...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about the difference between soreness and pain.  I have been getting this question from a lot of my clients as a physical therapist and a yoga teacher so I decided to talk about this in my latest podcast. In this podcast, I will help you answer three questions so you can pinpoint whether you are just sore or you are actually in pain.  Tune in...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about vacation and pain. I chose to talk about this because vacation can help decrease your pain. This past weekend, I went away for a four-day weekend, which is the first time I have been away from my two-and-a-half-year-old since he was born. Leading up to the vacation, I was having a considerable amount of neck pain coming from the stress o...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about body image and societal pressures. I will discuss how we judge other people’s bodies and how it affects our own body image.  Tune in so you can have an idea on how I deal with body image and how I worked to change my views on bodies.   In this episode we discuss:  [0:25] Introduction on this week’s topic  [0:37] Observing how others comm...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about headaches. I’ve been experiencing them over the past few weeks with being sick. Headaches can be uncomfortable and distracting. I will specifically be talking about tension headaches because physical therapy and movement can help with this type of headache.   Tune in so you can have better understanding about tension headaches and how yo...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about shoulder impingement. I’ve experienced it and it’s pretty common for overhead athletes, swimmers, or those who do repetitive overhead reaching. Even if you are not an overhead athlete, a swimmer, or you don’t do repetitive overhead reaching, you should listen to this episode so you know what to do in case you get shoulder impingement inj...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about injury resilience. I’ve learned about this just recently and it has changed my frame of thought around physical therapy.  Because this has updated my views, I am sharing this with you. For me, it is important that you know language and thoughts change based on new data and information. It is sometimes difficult for healthcare professiona...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about travel tips. This is not your usual podcast talking about travel tips because I will focus on things you can do to keep your energy high during travels. These tips will help you avoid injury while you are on vacation, too.    In this episode we discuss:  [0:30] How my Disneyland trip went [0:58] Patients injuring themselves during a trip...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about the misconceptions in the aging process. I interviewed my good friend, Dr. Rory English, who is an expert in this area.   Tune in so you can be enlightened as to aging and geriatrics. Geriatrics, or geriatric medicine, is a specialty that focuses on the health care of elderly people. It aims to promote health by preventing and treating d...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about physical therapy in sport. In this podcast, I interviewed a good friend of mine, Dr. Rachel Rourke, who is a physical therapist who works in Howard Head in Vail, Colorado. She also works with the U.S. Women’s Ski Team making her the best person to talk about physical therapy in sports.  Tune in so you can know more about what areas can p...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about schneck pain. It is that area between your neck and your shoulders and the pain is usually caused by posture or stress. Tune in so you can be enlightened as to what schneck pain is and how you can avoid it or decrease the pain once you feel it.  In this episode we discuss:  [0:40] Where is the schneck  [1:13] Why schneck pain happens [1:...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about how practicing yoga can help with your back pain. Yoga is not just about sitting around or touching your toes. It has a lot of benefits for your physical and mental health. Tune in so you can learn how yoga can help you with that flaring back pain you’ve been feeling and been trying to get rid of through other means.  In this episode we...

In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about the importance of getting a coach. Any Information you need is readily available on the internet. However, what you find on the internet may not be helpful to you or may just be blatantly wrong. And if you aren’t an expert in that field, it may be really difficult to determine what information may work for your circumstances. Tune in to...

Back pain is one of the most common complaints that people have in America. And, there are so many myths out there around back pain. In this episode, Dr. Jackie Fenton debunks six different myths around what causes back pain and best treatments for it.  In this podcast, Dr. Jackie Fenton shares her experience about how her views have shifted on back pain over the years based on changes in evidence...

Sometimes we forget to rest because we feel like we can still do activities or movements just because we do not feel beat. However, resting is important because if you do not rest, it could lead to things like letting our body be on the fight or flight mode, which increases the cortisol levels in our body, or suffering from a brain fog or be less productive, or letting our muscles not fully recove...

Returning to movement after a long break (maybe because of the pandemic) or an injury may be difficult and it is possible. Three things that are important to returning after a break from your activities go slow, make a plan, and get someone to hold you accountable and help you through your return to movement.  In this podcast, Dr. Jackie Fenton will share about her experience about getting back to...

Lateral ankle sprain is one of the most common injuries one can suffer from. However, a lot of people who get sprains tend to nurse the swelling, take a lot of pain medications, and not move at all. These are the actions that you should stay away from.  In this podcast, I will share my experience regarding a lateral ankle sprain and how I recovered quickly from it. I will also tell you how movemen...

As discussed in this podcast, there is a common misconception about it not being possible to be flexible, mobile and strong. However, you can work on improving all of these so you can be a better and healthier version of yourself. In this episode I discuss:[0:50] Flexibility[1:08] Mobility[1:20] Hypermobility[1:27] Hypomobility[2:05] Strength[2:30] Misconception on having flexibility, mobility, an...

Many of Dr. Jackie Fenton's patients and yoga students have had concerns about disc herniation. Particularly, in their low back. In this episode, she covers what a disc herniation is and why it might not be as scary as you think. Tune it to get rid of your fear around disc herniations!

In this week's episode, Dr. Jackie Fenton discusses how your sleep matters in the healing process. She reviews how to get a good night's sleep and busts the myth that there is a perfect way to sleep at night. Guess what, you move all the time at night, so once you fall asleep that "perfect" set up is gone once you are out. Tune in to get a better night's sleep!

This work on Your Health Matters, Dr. Jackie Fenton explores if self massage works or not. And even more than that, what to do for those muscles that just constantly feel like they need to be pressed on. Listen in to help decrease your pain in that schneck area ;)

If the title of this episode, Your Posture Doesn't Matter, triggers you a little bit....good :) Dr. Jackie Fenton talks about why your posture doesn't matter as much as you think it does. Many research studies have shown that your posture itself doesn't cause pain. There are many factors for pain, and posture isn't one of them. However, that doesn't mean stop moving, it ju...

In this week's episode, Dr. Jackie Fenton discusses meditation. She shares her first experience meditating - and if you thought you have a lot of thoughts during meditation - know you aren't alone. She discusses the benefits of meditation. As well as shares ways to get yourself into a regular practice of meditating.