A deep dive into the world of exercise, pain and injury with a Movement Optimism spin as opposed to the kinesiopathological model. The traditional view of the human body has considered to be much more akin to car when we should have been viewing like a robust ecosystem. This is a masterclass on critical thinking and hopes to get you challenging your biases as well as ours.
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Dr Stu Phillips - healthy aging and the importance of strength, hypertrophy and power
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Dr Stu Phillips, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health, shares his expertise on the importance of strength, power and muscle hypertrophy for healthy aging. As is often the case Stu discusses how simple exercise programming can achieve the physical attributes that help us all age well. The fast recap is: - something is better than n…
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Clifton Pho - A world class powerlifter and chiropractor's story of recovery
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Clifton is a Canadian Power Lifter and Chiropractor. I worked with a Clifton a few years ago to help him with his concussion symptoms, low back and hip pain. Working with health care professionals is often interesting. You will feel the pressure to "fix them" but when you get to listening to them you often realize that they have the answers and the…
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Rachel Hannah - Registered Dietician and Elite Marathoner talks REDs
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Rachel Hannah talks about her own experience as a runner dealing with Relative Energy Deficiency (REDs) and her recovery from bone stress injuries (BSIs). And Greg (Rachel's former Physiotherapist) talks about his professional failings as a therapist helping Rachel with her first Bone Stress Injury. If you want help with all things diet, healthy we…
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Dr Anneleen Malfliet talks pain neuroscience, graded exposure and addressing adiposity to help with pain
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Dr Malfliet was on today discussing her PhD thesis paper which deserves a lot of attention. We discussed her RCT entitlted "Effect of Pain Neuroscience Education Combined With Cognition-Targeted Motor Control Training on Chronic Spinal Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial" where we focused on the importance of nudging into pain (Time Contingent Exerci…
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Erik Meira talking ACL injury, movement technique and working in elite sport
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We have Erik Meira (The Science PT) talking ACL injury, the importance or not of strength, whether valgus is a true risk factor for injury or a sign of something else and who technique matters for primary or secondary injury prevention. Please go to Erik's website not just for his links to what he offers but excellent blogs and resources that reall…
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Lars Berglund talking heavy deadlifting, technique and injuries and deadlifting for low back pain
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with Alex Hutchinson talking running injury prevention
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Greg and Alex delved into a wide-ranging discussion about the science of endurance and fitness, with a focus on injury prevention and treatment. They explored the effectiveness of strength training in injury prevention, the inconsistencies in the research, and the debatably importance of stretching in the prevention of injury. Alex shared his perso…
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Dr Neil Meigh - The Kettlebell physio talks kettlebells and aging with strength
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Dr Neil Meigh is a physiotherapist and associate professor at Bond University (Gold Coast Australia). Neil conducted a pragmatic exercise intervention in insufficiently active older adults. The intervention was a hard style kettlebell program in those aged 60-80. These people were not life long athletes but many of them thrived in his program. They…
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Dr Jo Nijs - nociplastic pain and tailoring lifestyle interventions for persistent pain
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Jo Nijs, PT, MT, PhD,[1] is a Belgian professor of physiotherapy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and physiotherapist/manual therapist at the University Hospital Brussels. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed journals and has been strong proponent of some of our favourite topics on this podcast. We talk about: - classifying pain based on m…
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Dr Bronnie Lennox Thompson talking living well with pain
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One of the hardest discussions to have with people in pain is shifting our focus from trying to "fix" pain to living well with pain. Because, if we are very honest there are a huge number of people who might always have pain. Sometimes the goal for healthy rehab is to shift from eliminating pain to living well with pain. This is a fundamental of Ac…
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Dr Jordan Feigenbaum of Barbell Medicine talks orthopaedic cost, getting healthy and specificity of training
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Dr Feigenbaum is a medical doctor, strength and conditioning coach, strong dude, wicked golfer and motocross expert. He co-runs Barbell Medicine catering to both health care professionals and clients. We talk: technique and injury risk (duh) the ideas behind the "orthopaedic cost" of lifting the role of excess body weight on health and Osteoarthrit…
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Dr Pak Androulakis‐Korakakis on deadlifting after 50, minimal effective dose and exercise prescription
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Dr Pak has a PhD in minimal effective dose training in powerlifters. So, guess what we talked about? Dr Pak is a powerlifting coach, scientist and science communicator in the world of strength and conditioning. His PhD specifically focused on the minimum that a power lifter could do to increase their strength. We talked about: - adults >50 and thei…
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Greg Lehman is all alone talking about whether physios really do suck at exercise prescription
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Physios have been lambasted awhile for not understanding the basics of strength and conditioning principles. I reject this idea. There two areas we explore in this podcast. 1. The idea that strength and conditioning basics are relevant for rehabilitation 2. Whether physios actually know these basics. I make an attempt at trying to understand the ar…
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Dr Karen Litzy - The business side of physiotherapy
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Today we take a bit of a detour and talk a little bit about the business side of Physical Therapy. We don't do justice to our speakers knowledge but I hope that if this a topic you need to know more about I've introduced you to the right person. Karen Litzy is an excellent physical therapist out of New York City, owner of a concierge physical thera…
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Antony Lo - talking movement technique, pelvic floor physio and working alongside people for behaviour change
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Antony Lo (aka The Physio Detective) is an elite physiotherapist with a special interest in the pelvic floor and the female athlete. Antony is an amazing clinical educator and provides a lot of insight into how our profession can keep moving forward. We discuss: his evolution from the kinesiopathological model to movement optimism the role of movem…
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Dr Ebonie Rio - tendons duh, manual therapy and the need for specificity
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Once again we are lucky to have another leader in our physio and rehab space. Dr Ebonie Rio PhD, researcher (>100 peer reviewed publication), big thinker and practicing sports physiotherapist (with the Victorian Institute of Sport and The National Ballet). Ebonie discusses her dual role as a researcher and as a practicing clinician. She shares her …
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Dr Stefi Cohen - her low back pain journey, movement optimism thoughts and helping the world through exercise fundamentals
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Dr Stefi Cohen holds multiple (25) world records in powerlifting, is an accomplished Physical Therapist, Strength Coach,author and pro boxer. She has done it all and shares the wisdom she has gained in all these areas. Stefi talks about her views on: overcoming her own low back pain her book (Back in Motion) to help others with low back pain her po…
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Dr Bret Contreras takes on movement technique, social media and critical thinking
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Dr Bret Contreras (The "Glute Guy") sits down with Greg to discuss some of our favourite topics. We dive into Bret being one of the original movement optimists with his wildly controversial article "To crunch or not to crunch" in 2011. Bret took a well thought out position on spinal flexion that was fairly revolutionary at the time. We get Bret's v…
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Introduction to the Movement Optimism Podcast
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Welcome to the Movement Optimism Podcast The critical thinkers resource for fitness, pain, injuries and health. In this brief podcast we touch on what Movement Optimism is and what you can expect from the podcast. In general, we will have three different types of podcasts : Greg with a Guest Expert in their field. A guest expert tells Greg why he i…
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