Hi, and welcome to Talk about Pain, a podcast for people with stubborn or chronic pain who are looking for answers. I’m Rick Olderman, physical therapist for about 25 years, hanna somatics practitioner, pilates instructor, personal trainer, author and sports and orthopedic physical therapy clinic owner. I specialize in helping people with difficult pain problems. On this podcast, I’m not interested in recycling old outdated material. I want to introduce fresh ideas that likely aren’t widely known, a lot of them my own, but also from other health or wellness practitioners who are in the trenches doing the work of really helping people. It’s straightforward talk about pain, what works and what doesn’t. We get to the point here, which is to help you with your pain. Please subscribe to my podcast. And if there’s something you’d like to talk about or someone you’d like me to chat with who’s helped you, drop me a line. Chances are it’ll help others too.
Ever wondered how knuckles crack or if cracking your knuckles is good or bad for you? Listen here.
Visit www.rickolderman.com for my home programs, patient stories, free ebook, blog, or my online course teaching this approach to health and wellness practitioners.
This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Solving the Pain Puzzle: Cases from 25 Years as a Physical Therapist. My book focuses on patient stories that illustrate important, but typically overlooked, connections in the body to help solve chronic pain.
Visit www.rickolderman.com for my home programs, patient stories, free ebook, blog, or my online course teaching this approach to health and wellness practitioners.
I comment on an article, Psychology of Pain, featured in The Denver Post and written by a NY Times journalist Sushma Subramanian. While I agree with the importance of understanding psychological issues contributing to pain, I take issue with classifying pain as a disease.
Visit www.rickolderman.com for my home programs, patient stories, free ebook, blog, or my online course teaching this approach to health and wellness practitioners.
This episode talks about how to change a couple common strengthening exercises to help solve rather than cause neck pain.
Visit www.rickolderman.com for my home programs, patient stories, free ebook, blog, or my online course teaching this approach to health and wellness practitioners.
A patient with back pain has no time to do anything. How do I solve the problem? Check out my take on this here.
Visit www.rickolderman.com for my home programs, patient stories, free ebook, blog, or my online course teaching this approach to health and wellness practitioners.
I've always been intrigued by hypnotism and finally had an opportunity to speak with Stephanie Dalfonzo, an integrative hypnotist for 20 years. Check out her website at https://stephaniedalfonzo.com.
Visit www.rickolderman.com for my home programs, patient stories, free ebook, blog, or my online course teaching this approach to health and wellness practitioners.
Josh had a long difficult journey with his pain. His was a bit more complicated in terms of solving pain but he stuck with it and is now reaping the benefits. I hope you find inspiration for your own story.
Visit www.rickolderman.com for my home programs, patient stories, free ebook, blog, or my online course teaching this approach to health and wellness practitioners.
This episode is my response to an article reprinted in The Denver Post written by Gina Kolata (whose articles I love!) from the NY Times. Scientists are baffled by an apparent correlation between taking anti-inflammatory medication and developing chronic back pain. I think this illustrates medicine/science's lack of understanding of what causes chronic back pain.
Here's a link to the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/health/medications-back-pain-overuse.html
Visit www.rickolderman.com for my home programs, patient stories, free ebook, blog, or my online course teaching this approach to health and wellness practitioners.
I talk about a patient I treated with sacroiliitis. From the standpoint of a systems approach, I explain how this treatment would be very similar to solving sciatica, low back pain, hip pain or piriformis syndrome. It's all basically rooted in the same series of problems.
Visit www.rickolderman.com for my home programs, patient stories, free ebook, blog, or my online course teaching this approach to health and wellness practitioners.
When approaching pain from a systems standpoint, it's sometimes easy to solve chronic pain--even with a giant NFL offensive lineman. Listen to my interview with Carl (not his real name) about his pain and how we solved it.
Visit www.rickolderman.com for my home programs, patient stories, free ebook, blog, or my online course teaching this approach to health and wellness practitioners.
