552: How to Fix Your Body - Relieve Pain with Rick Olderman
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Our traditional healthcare systems offer amazing options for acute pain and injury, but for long-term, chronic, and subclinical pain, you’re mostly on your own. It’s more common than not for someone with chronic lower back or knee pain to have absolutely no idea what is wrong or how to fix it, and scans and doctors’ appointments often leave you with no clarity or guidance. In an attempt to fix ourselves, we stretch, strengthen, buy different shoes, and adjust our workstations. Sometimes it works, but sometimes we need more help.
On this week’s podcast, we meet a physical therapist who focuses on standing posture and walking gait as a functional fix to main chronic pain ailments.
Listen and learn:
- Why atrophied gluteus maximus muscles are often a key culprit in joint pain
- Why it can be helpful to avoid locking your knees while standing
- How an overemphasis on movement can sometimes lead to overlooking incorrect movement
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Rick is a physical therapist who found traditional therapy effective for acute pain but lacking for chronic pain and nagging injuries. He spent over 20 years developing his own approach and subsequently authored the Fixing You book series.
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| 0:00.0 | Our traditional healthcare systems are amazing for acute pain and injury, but for long-term |
| 0:07.1 | chronic pain, sometimes subclinical pain, you're mostly on your own. |
| 0:11.7 | It happens all the time where someone with chronic lower back pain or a chronically |
| 0:15.8 | painful knee will have absolutely no idea what's going on or how to fix it. |
| 0:20.4 | They go to the doctor, they get some scans, and they still don't really have any clarity |
| 0:23.6 | or guidance in terms of what they should do to fix it. |
| 0:26.9 | When we try to fix ourselves, we do stretching and strengthening, maybe we try different |
| 0:30.4 | shoes, we change to a standing work desk or change our chairs. |
| 0:34.3 | Sometimes these things work, sometimes we need more help. |
| 0:37.0 | On this week's podcast, you'll need a physical therapist who focuses specifically on chronic |
| 0:41.9 | pain, not just acute pain, and he uses things like standing posture, walking gate, and functional |
| 0:47.5 | fixes to help with these chronic ailments. |
| 0:50.3 | If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. |
| 0:52.1 | I am a yoga teacher and trainer, a serial entrepreneur. |
| 0:54.7 | I'm the father of three. |
| 0:55.7 | Firstly, I am a student. |
| 0:56.7 | I like to learn things. |
| 0:58.0 | I use this podcast as a way to find medical doctors, researchers, meditation experts, authors, |
| 1:04.1 | bring their work here on the show so we can learn from them. |
| 1:07.0 | If you'd like to support the show, scroll down in whatever app you're listening on, leave |
| 1:10.2 | a rating and review. |
| 1:11.2 | I have a YouTube channel, Yoga Body is the name, published Science-Based Yoga videos once |
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