Joining us in this episode is Dr. Michael Ray, a chiropractor and owner of Shenandoah Valley performance clinic in Harrisonburg Virginia. Mike is also a pain and rehab clinician for Barbell Medicine, working with individual patients, acting as a co-host on the podcast, and presenting at their pain and rehab seminars.

There are numerous topics covered in this episode including an overview of how he runs his practice, understanding low back pain diagnoses, applying best practices in the clinical setting, how to get started with reading and understanding research and critical thinking, how to address social determinants of health as a clinician, a nuanced discussion on the importance of technique with movement, having conversations with patients and addressing their beliefs, and finishes off with a great analogy of how to tackle pain through the means of pizza and craft beer.

You can find Mike here:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michael_barbellmedicine/

Website: https://svperformanceclinic.com/

Barbell Medicine: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/