Welcome to episode 3 of The Optimal Body Podcast
Disc Herniation to Supple Leopard
Today, Jen and Dom bring you their PT Pearl on Disc Herniation! After they are done sharing their words of wisdom, they dive right into their first interview with fellow physical therapist, Dr. Kelly Starrett.
What You Will Learn:
PT Pearl 2: Is Disc Herniation Permanent?
01:07 – Your pain experience
02:03 – Our main goal: taking the fear away from diagnosis
04:05 – Reality versus Unreality of disk herniation anatomy
07:45 – Understanding why you may have pain
10:55 – Young man with fractured humerus with no accessibility to medical treatment take-away
14:00 – Understanding where you primarily move and how to relieve pressure
15:00 – Rather than asking “What do we need to avoid?” but “What do we need to add?” and why
16:30 – Example of what to add if experiencing pain
18:46 – Exploring your mobility and reaction to stress
20:32 – Flexion in the spine is normal and how to get back
22:13 – The Mobility Method and how it helps self-awareness
25:50 – Disk Herniation Take-away
To Watch the PT Pearl on YouTube, click here: https://youtu.be/Q2XTKNMWLDk
Interview with Dr. Kelly Starrett: @thereadystate
25:47 – Dr. Kelly Starrett intro and start of interview
28:25 – Where was Mobility WOD born?
33:25 – So why did Kelly call it Mobility in the first place?
37:40 – How do we make movement important or pertinent to people again?
40:14 – Why is it important to start focusing on people’s environments and behaviors and how this is influencing our physiology?
44:41 – Why the heck do we train?
47:40 – In a society that continues to require less and less movement of us, how can we continue to convince people it is important to life?
51:10 – Kelly’s reasons we mobilize
54:40 – Why the change from the Mobility WOD to The Ready State?
60:00 – Kelly and Margaret’s non-profit mission: Stand Up Kids and the research The Stand Up Kids Project
1:06:48 Find out more about Stand Up Kids and the Stand Up Kids Project
1:11:25 – Kelly’s final takeaways
About Dr. Kelly Starrett:
Dr. Kelly Starrett, DPT is a coach, physical therapist, author, and speaker. Along with his wife Juliet, Kelly is co-founder of The Ready State.
The Ready State began as Mobility|WOD in 2008 and has gone on to revolutionize the field of performance therapy and self-care.
Kelly received his Doctor of Physical Therapy in 2007 from Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, California.
Kelly’s clients include professional athletes in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB. He also works with Olympic gold-medalists, Tour de France cyclists, world and national record holding Olympic Lifting and Power athletes, Crossfit Games medalists, ballet dancers, military personnel, and competitive age-division athletes.
Kelly is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers Becoming A Supple Leopard and Ready to Run. He is also co-author (with Juliet) of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller Deskbound.
His latest book, Waterman 2.0, offers water-sport athletes a comprehensive guide to optimized movement and pain-free performance.
Kelly and his work have been featured on 60 Minutes, The View, The Joe Rogan Experience, CBS Sports, Outside Magazine, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal and dozens of other books, magazines, and podcasts, including Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Body and Tools of Titans.
On top of co-founding The Ready State, Kelly and Juliet also started San Francisco CrossFit and StandUpKids together. Founded in 2005, San Francisco CrossFit was the 21st CrossFit affiliate in the world. And StandUpKids is a non-profit dedicated to combating kids’ sedentary lifestyles by bringing standing/moving desks to low-income public schools. To date, StandUpKids has converted 95,000 kids from sitting to standing.
Earlier in their careers, Kelly and Juliet also co-founded a kayaking camp for children with HIV called Liquid. In his athletic career, Kelly paddled whitewater slalom canoe on the US Canoe and Kayak Teams.
He leads the Men’s Whitewater Rafting Team to two national titles and competed in two World Championships.
In his free time, “KStar” likes to spend time with his wife, Juliet, and two daughters, Georgia and Caroline. He also loves to mountain bike, paddle, and sauna. And while Kelly claims to tolerate the ice bath, according to Juliet he actually likes that, too.
Items mentioned in this episode include:
The Mobility Method: https://www.docjenfit.com/mobility
The Ready State: https://thereadystate.com/
Free 2-week trial: https://thereadystate.com/trial/
Stand Up Kids Foundation: https://standupkids.org/
The Stand Up Kids Project: https://www.cafdn.org/stand-up-for-kids/stand-up-for-kids-project/
The Ready State Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thereadystate/
The Ready State YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/sanfranciscocrossfit
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Research Citations
Amin, R. M., Andrade, N. S., & Neuman, B. J. (2017). Lumbar Disc Herniation. Current
Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine, 10(4), 507–516. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5685963/
Brinjikji, W., Luetmer, P., Comstock, B., Bresnahan, B., Chen, L., Deyo, R., … Jarvik, J. (2014).
Systematic Literature Review of Imaging Features of Spinal Degeneration in Asymptomatic Populations. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 36(4), 811–816. Retrieved from http://www.ajnr.org/content/36/4/811.short
Jordan, J., Morgan, T. S., & Weinstein, J. (2011). Herniated lumbar disc. ClinicalEvidence.
Retrieved from https://www.dartmouth.edu/sport-trial/Related_Papers/CE_issue8_HLD.pdf
Kreiner, D. S., Hwang, S. W., Easa, J. E., Resnick, D. K., Baisden, J. L., Bess, S., Cho, C. H.,
Depalma, M. J., Dougherty, P., Fernand, R., Ghiselli, G., Hanna, A. S., Lamer, T., Lisi, A. J., Mazanec, D. J., Meagher, R. J., Nucci, R. C., Patel, R. D., Sembrano, J. N., … Toton, J. F. (2014). An evidence-based clinical guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of lumbar disc herniation with radiculopathy. Spine Journal, 14(1), 180-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spinee.2013.08.003
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