In this episode, we sit down with Derek Miles. Derek is a residency trained physical therapist currently out of Cincinnati, Ohio, and is on Barbell Medicine’s pain and rehab team. He has worked at Stanford Children’s Hospital as the Advanced Clinical Specialist in the rehabilitation department and at the University of Florida for 10 years in sports medicine, treating a variety of athletic injuries from overuse to post-operative. He is involved in the peer reviewed process for academic journals and has spoken at national level conferences within the physical therapy profession on topics from utilization of resistance training in the rehabilitation of endurance athletes to post operative hip progressions.

We focus our discussion around adolescent populations. We discuss the importance of communication with younger athletes, the benefits and risks of resistance training in youth populations, the pits of early sport specialization, relative energy deficiency syndrome, and we also discuss a side project of Derek’s called cooking with adhesions, where he demonstrates how strong the tissue of our body really are, and how we likely have negligible effects on modifying structures with our hands.