wise athletes podcast #156 | Re-integrating the Patchwork Man | Gage Banks, VooDoo Magic Healer
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About the guest:
Gage Banks's expertise encompasses the complex relationships between airway function, hearing, vision, dental occlusion (how teeth align), and tongue positioning—all of which play crucial roles in regulating body tension and balance. By integrating this specialized knowledge with his foundation in orthopedic care, breathwork, and neurovisceral techniques, Gage helps patients understand how these systems influence their movement patterns and daily function. His comprehensive approach addresses various conditions, including TMJ dysfunction, sleep apnea, breathing disorders, and dental-related pain, working collaboratively with local dentists to provide coordinated care for optimal results.
"Just mobilizing joints, giving patients stretching and strengthening exercises, or having a patient participate in 'core stabilization' is not sufficient to address the complex interrelationship between the available mobility of the human system and the integration of automatic and volitional motor strategies.”
Gage's Credentials:
Gage Banks website - kinectphysicaltherapy.com
- Master of Science in Physical Therapy (MSPT)
- Manual Therapy Certification (MTC)
- Certified Functional Manual Therapy (CFMT)
- Fellow of Functional Manual Therapy (FFMT)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Therapy (FAAOMPT)
Episode summary:
Gage Banks came recommended to me as a voodoo healer, a bringer of solutions for inscrutable problems. I found Gage to be an intelligent problem solver who opened my eyes to the problems we create for ourselves by living a modern, habitually unbalanced life.
Our physiology is a magnificent thing. Billions of years of trial and error have led to a self repairing and adapting mechanism that is us. Our modern world has changed the game faster than our instinctive mechanisms can change so it is up to our conscious selves to know what can go wrong to take corrective action.
Bullet point summary:
- It’s when we get so out of balance that we cannot find balance when we need it
- Reintegrate ourself in the world so we can flow in the world
- Stand on one leg with your eyes closed to see if you are overly focused on central vision
- Tongue extension: deviation and impression of teeth
- Grabbing the pen with your eyes closed
- Watching your feet when you walk to be careful
- Looking at the stairs when you walk on them.
- Being too careful means you are locked up.
- Walk with a forward head. Not swinging arms when you walk.
- How to put yourself in the world?
- (1) Look at your heels (or the underside of the chair) the entire time while you stand up or sit down (avoid the "plop")
- (2) Walk and notice what you do: look at the ground near your feet? just notice what you do.
- (3) Walk and pick a place to look off in the distance while noticing the peripheral vision (without looking at the things in the periphery)
- (4) Walk and swing your arms forward and backward while rotating shoulders....see your arms with your peripheral vision
- (5) Then look for tension where you don't need it....let it go. Emphasize rhythm and flow.
Related episodes:
Episode 151 | Pain is NOT all in your head | Rick Olderman, MSPT
Episode 121 | Recovery for Performance Longevity | Brian MacKenzie
Episode 14 | Solving Athlete Pain | Charlie Merrill, PT
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