August 11, 2022
Ever wondered how knuckles crack or if cracking your knuckles is good or bad for you? Listen here.
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July 22, 2022
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.
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July 20, 2022
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.
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July 14, 2022
This episode talks about how to change a couple common strengthening exercises to help solve rather than cause neck pain.
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July 1, 2022
A patient with back pain has no time to do anything. How do I solve the problem? Check out my take on this here.
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June 10, 2022
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.
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June 5, 2022
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.
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May 29, 2022
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
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May 20, 2022
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.
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April 24, 2022
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.
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