The Rethinking Rehab Podcast

Yall are in for a treat!  Jenny LaCross is a pelvic floor specialist working on her PhD.  She shares her own personal experiences in healthcare as a patient, as well as her reflections on transitioning from clinical care into research.  Jenny is my go-to gal for all things evidence-informed pelvic floor rehab.  She challenges me to give better care and I hope you walk away from this feeling similarly.  Enjoy!

Hi fam!  Meet Taylor Flanick - she currently runs her own sport chiropractic business.  She may be a familiar name as she interned with Clinical Athlete back in 2020 and helped run a lot of journal clubs and round tables during the pandemic.  Today we chat about her frustrations going through chiropractic school and navigating patient expectations now that she’s practicing using a non-traditional model.  I hope you find Taylor’s honest reflection as refreshing as I did!

Welcome back my friends!  This conversation got my wheels turning quite a bit!  F Scott Feil is a physical therapist, educator, and business coach. He enjoys helping others launch their own side businesses.  F Scott gives a lot of great ideas and personal anecdotes on how to create additional streams of revenue for physical therapists.  Stay tuned until the end where he shares some great resources. I hope this inspires you like it did me!

This is a special one, friends.  Today I chat with two women who I’ve spent 40 hours/week with for the last 3 years.  That’s important to know, because these two became built in mentors for me, not just in clinic, but for my career.  I’ve learned so much from them about what it means to take up space as a woman in sports rehab. We talk about our own experience of being a woman in sports medicine, women in the field who’ve inspired us and the amazing men who’ve helped support us along the way.  You might get a shoutout, just sayin’! Jeni and Caitlin bring unique experiences to the table.  Jeni started out as an AT, became a PT, completed a sports residency and orthopedic manual fellowship, and currently works with elite gymnasts.  Caitlin completed an orthopedic residency, a sport manual fellowship, heads up our research lab, is working on her PhD, and currently manages the clinic I work for.  Clearly, these two have covered a lot of ground.  I hope you enjoy this conversation. Caitlin’s previous episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FgUFAf02zd0cRxMyNcLhE?si=mh-g5HfVTFmMVjzpjoCuMw Jeni’s previous episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0f2WTeqa4qobARvEOMnigf?si=XVOgwpXRRLqHOB92cKzRSA

Today I sit down with Chris Slocum, a strength coach who is passionate about working with rehab athletes.  We chat about his role in the return to play process as well as his experience collaborating with other PTs, ATs, and MDs.  Enjoy!

Pull up a seat, grab a drink and get to know one of my favorite physios, Sam Oft!  Sam has a way of bringing out the most authentic version of other people because of her own authenticity.  We chat about if we are just trading new dogma for old dogma and what professionalism even means these days.  Enjoy!

Guys I’m so pumped for you to meet my good friend and mentor, Caitlin!  Her experiences include an orthopedic residency, a sports manual fellowship, transitioning into management, and being a PhD student.  She is a wealth of knowledge and a person I go to often when I need to be reminded of what practicing in the middle means.  Today we talk about her career path, social media PT, and a growth opportunity she had while mentoring a student that did not see eye to eye with her.  I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

Dylan is a current PT student who recently started a conversation in the CALU Plus Community about times we’ve changed our minds on things, so naturally I had to get him on here.  We talk about his attitude toward PT school, education and exercise, and staying to open to learning from all people.  I hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another installment of Becoming Unstuck! Today I sit down with Garrett Burr and talk through one of his difficulty cases. The patient is a high school athlete hoping to return to softball and flag football who has had longstanding anterior hip pain. We focus exercise prescription considerations when everything appears to be irritable.

You know those people that you just gel with immediately?  Those people that you just want to be around?  That’s how I feel about Azita. She’s simply a badass clinician and a beautiful human.  Today Azita and I talk about how her experience with the University of Maryland Strength & Conditioning staff shaped her current view of what Performance Physical Therapy means. Azita also shares about the importance of leading with vulnerability when ‘professionalism’ might tell us not to.