Manips and Sips

In this extremely special episode we bring on Dr. Tom Michael's aka Dr. Boyd's mentor during his early years of practice! We bring up some good stories of "young" Dr. Boyd 😂 and the origin of Manips & Sips! Dr. Michaels has been practicing for over 15 years and has seen the profession evolve from a cog in the medical wheel to now being see patients direct access as Doctors of Physical Therapy! Tom gives his insight on being called a doctor in the clinic and where he sees the profession going!

Sips Provided: Sierra Nevada & Axe and Arrow Brewing 🍺(7.6/10) and Johnnie Walker 🥃

Clinical Chat Begins at 5:00.

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Did you know you can combine neural mobilizations with a joint based technique?! Building off our last episode we discuss how combining both neural and joint mobilizations can be extremely effective for radiculopathies, carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, cubital tunnel syndrome and other extremity pathologies! We discuss what we see with our patients that make us utilize this approach, how we perform it and the research backing it up!

Sips Provided: Thompson Island Brewing Company 🍺(7.6/10) and Buffalo Trace 🥃

Clinical Chat Begins at 5:20.

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Meralgia Paresthetica, a condition most of us briefly hear in school but rarely ever come across. Or maybe it is more common than we think?! The Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve (LFCN) branches off the L2/L3 nerve root and L/S dysfunction can potentially cause "Gun Belt Syndrome". In this episode Dr. Boyd discusses his AAOMPT case study of treating a Champion Level Olympic Weightlifter who had been dealing with chronic anterior thigh pain that previous treatment failed. Dr. Boyd and Cruz discuss the thought process, the differential diagnosing process and the novel treatment of combining thoracolumbar joint mobilization and LFCN floss in order to resolve the patient's pain!

Sips Provided: Ommegang Brewery🍺(8.3/10) and Buffalo Trace 🥃

Clinical Chat Begins at 7:20.

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Advocating for not specializing on Manips & Sips?! Did we have to many sips?! We bring in the extremely highly trained and on paper "specialized" Dr. Steve Kinney PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS, FiT to discuss why you should not become narrow-focused on one speciality in PT. Steve discusses how he uses every single branch of PT in his daily practice and why you should too! Every "type" of PT should listen!

Sips Provided: Madras (Orange Cranberry Spice Mead) 🍷/🍺 and Noble Oak 🥃

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Manual therapy in inpatient neuro?! Say what!! We bring on neuro PT expert Dr. Chris Carroll who works in the legendary Magee Rehab in Philadelphia. Chris's passion for neuro and all things rehab is intoxicating! Chris discusses how he uses manual therapy and "orthopedic" concepts regularly in his advanced neuro rehab. He also shows videos of how to truly stimulate and challenge his involved patients of SCI's and CVA's, definitely no UBE's and basic knee extensions at the side of the table! Any PT of any setting would definitely benefit from this episode!

Clinical Chat Begins at 8:15

Sips Provided: Jack Honey 🥃 and Bissell Brothers 🍻

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Our first guest episode with a student physical therapist! Jake York caught our eye by his 🔥 post on the lack of advocacy in our profession. Jake is a 2nd year SPT from Indiana who got fired up over the lack of student and professional participation in our association. Jake's first experience with PT was unfortunately not a good one, luckily he stuck with it and found his passion with it. We discuss why it's important to advocate for the profession and how you can do it at any level! This impacts all of us so listen in!

Clinical Chat Starts: 4:10

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Sips Provided By: Bissell Brothers 8/10 🍺 and Blade & Bow 🥃

Part 2 of our Shoulder Impingement Series! This time we talk about the interventions from where we were to where we are now! If you are looking to improve your ability to treat the shoulder listen in!

Clinical Chat Starts: 3:15

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Sips Provided By: Smuttynose Brewing 7.5/10 🍺 and Blade & Bow 🥃

One of the most common conditions we see as PT/DC/ATC is the infamous shoulder impingement! Our current special tests provide minimal information on how to treat the patient and if anything just make symptoms worse. In this episode we dive into what we see during an examination that tips us to believe it's an impingement and how it sets up our treatment! Listen in next week for how we treat!

Clinical Chat Starts: 2:15

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Sips Provided By: Shipyard Pumpkin Head 🍺 and Johnny Walker 18 year 🥃

We bring in Dr. Zachary Walston PT, DPT, OCS who is the leader of his own Clinical Gap Podcast, National Director of Quality and Research/Program Coordinator of the PT Solutions Orthopedic Residency Program/ Director of the Clinical Mentorship Program for PT Solutions. Zach gives his insight of what Evidence Based Practice is, biases and how we should really look at the research! Lots of head-knodding with this episode, so listen in!

Clinical Chat Starts: 3:19

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Sips Provided By: Warhorse Brewing 🍺 and IW Harper 15 Year & Blade and Bow 🥃

Ever wonder about the history of manual therapy? It's been around forever and been a part of physical therapy treatment since the birth of the profession. Since then many tribes of manual therapy have risen including Paris, Mulligan, Maitland, Cyriax, Dry Needling, IASTM and much much more. We discuss these different style of techniques/schools of thought to expose our listeners/viewers on all the options that they have and our opinions on them!

If you practice manual therapy this is the episode for you!

Sips provided by Lexington Brewing Co. 🍺 and Balvenie Scotch Whiskey 🥃.

Clinical Chat: Begins at 8:30

Interested in mentorship or wanting to improve your manual therapy, differential diagnosing and overall skill as a clinician?! Check out our online manual therapy membership and orthopedic/sports mentorship programs! pursueptnow.com/virtual-mentorship-and-membership/