💭 ``Strengthening is critical in life, slow deliberate, good form, end range movement to failure or muscular fatigue, 10 to 15 repetitions, and then rest, rest is the key``. - Dr. Thomas Dreisinger 👉🏻Our guest is Thomas Dreisinger, Ph.D. Dr. Dreisinger has a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. In the late 1980s, he began clinical work in the assessment, management, and treatment of patients with chronic back and neck pain. His background spans nearly 40 years of clinical experience in reha...
Dec 15, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 89
💭 ``In the mobilization with movement concept, it would be applying different forces across the tissues of the body, to see if we can eliminate or immediately change those comparable signs``. - Dr. Eric Dinkins 👉🏻Our guest is Eric M. Dinkins, PT, MSPT, DPT, OCS, Cert. MT, CMP, MCTA, CDN. Eric is a graduate from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and has been practicing since 2001. He has earned postgraduate certifications in Manipulative Therapy and is a Certified Mulligan Prac...
Dec 06, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 88
💭 “Often, 60 to 70% of my patients that are coming in for dizziness, I am treating them as cervicogenic dizziness which I would say is a cervical derangement.” - Bridget Scholljegerdes 👉🏻Our guest is Bridget Scholljegerdes, PT, Cert. MDT. Bridget is the clinical director of Fyzical Therapy and Balance Center in Las Cruces, NM. Bridget graduated as a physical therapist from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1999. She has worked in multiple settings including acute, rehab, SNF, and hospita...
Nov 25, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 87
💭 “``For the majority, the pain level did not go down that much, but the negative impact that has on their lives decreased significantly`` - Simon Simonsen 👉🏻Our guest is Simon Simonsen, PT, Dip. MDT and Owner of Vejle Back Clinic. Simon graduated as a Physiotherapist in 1997, in Denmark. His main interest is in Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy. He completed his Diploma in MDT in 2004 and became a Faculty Member of the McKenzie Institute Denmark in 2008 and at the McKenzie Institute Interna...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 4 min
💭 “It looks so much like spine. It would have been easy with him to stay with spine for even longer and not take that 5-10 min to look at his shoulder. And then, there is the opposite, where people leave the spine too quickly and miss not fully clearing the spine. There is a grey area that is difficult for even experienced clinicians to manage at times.`` - Audrey Long 👉🏻Our guest is Audrey Long, BScPT, Dip MDT, CPA, Clinical Specialist MSK . Audrey has over 30 years of clinical experience th...
Nov 03, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 85
💭 “Some of the most well-known researchers in spasticity right now have come to conclude that peripheral mechanisms may be mediating the actual symptoms.`` - Annie O’Connor 👉🏻Our guest is Annie O’Connor, PT, OCS, Cert. MDT. She is the Founder and CEO of World of Hurt, LLC a dedicated consulting, teaching, telehealth, and research company for the application of the Pain Mechanism Classification System into clinical practice. In addition, she is a Physical Therapy Manager for AIM Specialty Heal...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 84
💭 “Most of the time, the real estate you purchased is now worth more than the actual business you have built over a 10-15 year period. Rather than just selling your practice, you sell your practice and the real estate and you have made more money. `` - Winston Parks 👉🏻Our guest is Winston Warren Parks. Winston received his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville where he focused on Finance & Logistics. He received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from ...
Oct 04, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 81
💭 “ Increase the overall survivorship of these kids instead of just focusing on their survival, it’s not just about they are still here but what is the quality of their being here.`` - Dr. Amanda Gentz Curry 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Amanda Gentz Curry, PT, DPT. Dr. Curry earned her doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2011 and has worked in the acute care setting since graduation. Working first with adults in a large urban hospital in Memphis, TN ...
Sep 22, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 82
💭 “I told a lot more people than I thought I would ever tell to stay in bed, you know normally our role is to get people out of bed, get them moving, and just get them back to it, but for some of these folks mean rolling over was desaturating folks into the fifties and sixties and so it was a struggle just to get them back to 80s and 90s with their oxygen.” - Dr. Kathleen Antares 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Kathleen Antares, PT, DPT, an accidental veteran entrepreneur, who exited the womb with the um...
Sep 08, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 81
💭 “GOATA is mechanically changing how we move. When you start moving the wrong way, we literary tear our bodies up over time . ” - Lee Poston 👉🏻 Our guest is Lee Poston PT, Dip. MDT, C.S.C.S, Practicing GOATA Coach and Co-owner of Therapeutic Associates of Maui. Lee has been a PT for 28 years. He has worked in acute care, and sports medicine clinics, and was a traveling PT for about 3 years. He took his first MDT course in 1999 and his world was flipped upside down. He became a McKenzie Diplo...
Aug 30, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 80
💭 ”We can't fix people, elective surgery is not fixing people, it is most likely very expensive placebo procedures.” - Jeremy Lewis 👉🏻 Our guest is Jeremy Lewis, Ph.D., FCSP, a consultant physiotherapist, professor of musculoskeletal research (University of Limerick, Ireland, and Qatar University, Qatar), sonographer, and independent prescriber. He was born in New Zealand and trained in Australia. He works in the UK National Health Service and has been awarded a Chartered Society of Physiothe...
Aug 18, 2022•58 min
💭 ”She no longer fits the clinical prediction rule for hip OA after just forty repetitions of hip extension.” - Dr. Lindsay Carlton 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Lindsay Carlton, ATC, DPT, Dip. MDT. Lindsay graduated from Sage College with her Doctor of Physical Therapy in 2015 after completing her B.S. in Athletic Training and B.A. in Health Sciences in 2012 at Castleton State University. She has been an Athletic Trainer at the High School, Junior USA Olympic, and Collegiate levels. She completed her ...
Aug 09, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 78
💭 ”All four of the patients did have a pathoanatomical diagnosis, but all of them were actually mechanical derangements that did not match their medical diagnosis.” - Dr. Lindsay Carlton 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Lindsay Carlton, ATC, DPT, Dip. MDT. Lindsay graduated from Sage College with her Doctor of Physical Therapy in 2015 after completing her B.S. in Athletic Training and B.A in Health Sciences in 2012 at Castleton State University. She has been an Athletic Trainer at the High School, Junior ...
Jul 28, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 77
💭 ” After the patient was sustained (sustained midrange flexion in supine), all of a sudden he started to respond well to flexion in supine. ” - Dr. Brian Greer 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Brian Greer, PT, DPT, Dip MDT. Brian Greer is a McKenzie Diplomat practicing in Glastonbury, Connecticut. He participated in McKenzie Parts A and B during his clinical rotation at Maccio Physical Therapy in Troy, NY, and graduated from Springfield College in 2016. He went on to become Mckenzie Certified in 2017 and...
Jul 19, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 76
💭 ”Let's try to mimic the Mill`s manipultion through repetitive movement, so we flexed his wrist into full flexion, stabilized it on the table, had it go into full pronation and then extended into end range extension while was fixated it . ” - Dr. Joseph R. Maccio 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Joseph R. Maccio DPT, Dip. MDT. Dr. Maccio is published in the application of MDT in the wrist, hip osteoarthritis, ankle, after failed anterior cervical fusion and discectomy, and lateral epicondylalgia. He has ...
Jul 07, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 75
💭 ”Anyone that had excessive mechanical stress of extension, it was a 75% likelihood that some form of flexion was going to help them. ” - Dr. Joseph R. Maccio 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Joseph R. Maccio DPT, Dip. MDT. Dr. Maccio has published in the application of MDT in the wrist, hip osteoarthritis, ankle, after failed anterior cervical fusion and discectomy, and lateral epicondylalgia. He has given a platform presentation at the McKenzie Americas Conference detailing the prevalence of directiona...
Jun 28, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 74
💭 ” I guarantee you, there are a lot of patients out there who have a lateral shift and you are just missing it. ” - Jon Weinberg 👉🏻 Our guest is Jon Weinberg, PT, Dip. MDT. Jon earned his BSc from the Royal London School of Physiotherapy in 1994. After successfully attaining his Diploma in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy in 2005, he entered the McKenzie Institute Faculty Training Program and was appointed to Teaching Faculty for both the USA and Israel in 2008. Jon has served as a Clinical ...
Jun 16, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 73
💭 ” This study found about 90% of people`s inverse relationship to the mechanical stress was with the opposite movement. ” - Dr. Joseph R. Maccio 👉🏻 Our guest is Joseph R. Maccio DPT, dip. MDT. He is published in the application of MDT in the wrist, hip osteoarthritis, ankle, after failed anterior cervical fusion and discectomy, and lateral epicondylalgia. He has given a plat-form presentation at the McKenzie Americas Conference detailing the prevalence of directional preference at the wrist....
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 72
💭 ” What if we challenge students, staff, clinicians in the PT profession around the corner and around the world to do an act of service on the same day, wherever they were. And share the moments had and connections made online and on social media, what became the #ptdos . ” - Dr. Efosa Guobadia 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Efosa L. Guobadia, PT, DPT. Efosa is the Founder of the integrated wellness company FFITT Health; Founder and CEO of Move Together, a for purpose organization dedicated to improvin...
May 26, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 71
💭 ” Know your audience and know how you can help them. Think of it from how can I serve you before you think of how can I make money.” - Chanda Jothen 👉🏻 Our guest is Chanda Jothen, PT. Chanda is a physical therapist who has taken her talents out of the clinic and online. She currently runs the website Pink Oatmeal, with a mission to make gross motor and fine motor skills fun. She lives in Minnesota with her husband and three kids. When she is not working you can find her driving kids to spor...
May 17, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 70
💭” It does not matter what the circumstance is, it is how I think about the circumstance that will ultimately dictate the reality, the results that I create in my life. ” - TaVona Denise 👉🏻 Our guest is TaVona Denise, DPT. TaVona is A former physical therapist, master certified coach, and business mentor, TaVona is the creator of Launch Therapy™️, a process that helps coaches launch their group programs with ease so that they can bring in their favorite clients consistently without suffering ...
May 05, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 69
💭 ``The things that happened to us as children, affect our mental and physical health later. I realized that I could help people as much as I wanted to with manual therapy and exercises and yet they would never get better because their pain was from a different source. `` - Dr. Janet Delong 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Janet Delong PT, DPT, MHS, LSW, Cert MDT. Janet is a physical therapist, a licensed social worker/mental health therapist, and is a Nationally Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach....
Apr 26, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 68
💭” We tend to think of the opioid crisis being an outpatient orthopedic-only issue but is something that stands all aspects of our practices and all aspects of our society.” - Dr. Steven Kinney 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Steve Kinney PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS, FiT. Dr. Kinney earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Columbia University. He completed extensive training in Neuro-Developmental Treatment, becoming certified in Recovering Function. He helped develop APTA Indiana’s Pain Special Interest...
Apr 14, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 67
💭” If we don't reorient that seesaw our nervous system will continue to throw muscles into overdrive and make postural compensations in an effort to continue the SNS response.” - Beth Genday 👉🏻 Our guest is Beth Genday PT, MHS. Beth has been a practicing PT for 34 years. Though she has practiced in a variety of settings, her area of focus is the effect of trauma and stress on pain and the musculoskeletal system. She has her BS in Nutrition and Physical Therapy and a Masters in Orthopedic Phys...
Apr 05, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 66
💭” People supposedly screen the spine when they have an extremity patient, but it doesn't seem to be any data to tell people, is it a frequent thing? A rare thing? What is the prevalence like? ” - Richard Rosedale 👉🏻 Our guest is Richard Rosedale PT, Dip MDT. Richard graduated from Guy’s Hospital School of Physiotherapy (London, UK) in 1992. After emigrating to Canada, he completed his Diploma in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) in 1997. Richard worked in orthopedics and Occupational He...
Mar 24, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 65
💭” A large number of family medicine docs appreciate that they don't have good training and they really don't know what they are doing in MSK and spine cases, and they are open to hearing things. ” - Dr. Ronald Donelson 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Ronald Donelson, MD, MS, Dip MDT. Dr. Donelson is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who specialized in and researched diagnostics and non-operative spine care for more than 30 years. He earned a Diploma in Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy in 1990 and a...
Mar 15, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 64
💭” The more training you get, the better you are, the less money you make in the fee for service model. ” - Brent Cunning 👉🏻 Our guest is Brent Cunning, Advanced Practice PT, Cert. MDT. Brent is an advanced practice physical therapist with a special focus on low back pain diagnosis, treatment, and triage. He trained with orthopaedic spine surgeons, neurosurgeons, interventional radiologists, pain specialists, and rheumatologists learning to interpret spine MRIs, CTs, and radiographs. He triag...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 63
💭” The goal of the company was to take the MDT model and have a way to standardize clinicians and measure outcomes consistently to perform quality assurance in clinicians. ” - Dr. Scott W. Eiselt and Nick Belles 👉🏻 Our guests are Dr. Scott W. Eiselt PT, DPT, Dip.MDT and Nick Belles BSBS. Scott attended Marquette University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical science. He went on to attend graduate school at Marquette, earning a Doctorate of Physical Therapy in 2006. In 2012, Sc...
Feb 22, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 62
💭” First and foremost we have to come together as an industry, despite our specialties, to call us around a common message that is easily understood by the general public ” - Dr. Heidi Jannenga 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Heidi Jannenga, PT, DPT, ATC. Heidi is the co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer of WebPT , a nine-time Inc. 5000 honoree and the market-leading software solution for outpatient physical, occupational, and speech therapists. As a member of the board and senior management team, Heidi...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 61
💭” PCPs decide for roughly 70% of where people start their MSK care. In over half of medical schools there is very little to no formal MSK training. ” - Dr. Mark Miller 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Mark Miller - Doctor of PT, Dip. MDT CCO. Miller graduated from the University of Toronto in 1987 and co-developed the McKenzie Institute International’s North American clinical residency program. Miller has been a clinical practitioner for 34 years and is a widely recognized health industry pioneer, clinic...
Jan 31, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 60
