Manips and Sips

Episode 14: Low Back Pain And the Brain. In this episode of Manips and Sips we discuss our evolution of how we evaluate and treat low back pain which continues to be the #1 cause of disability in the 🇺🇸. Arguably the most challenging areas for students and entry level clinicians to treat. We discuss case studies, our treatment approaches and much more!

Episode 28: Using Manual Therapy As An Assessment Tool. In this episode we discuss how manual therapy can be just as useful as an assessment as it is an intervention. To often we fail to implement in part of our initial examination or even daily sessions, resulting in poor patient buy-in and compliance. If you are in sports or orthopedic therapy and are not using manual therapy as way to examine your patient/clients then this episode is a must for you!

Sips Provided: By SweetWater Brewing Company (8.2/10) and Stella 🍻

Episode 27: Are You A Lazy PT? This may ruffle some physical therapists feathers, but the Manips and Sips team has had it with what we have been seeing on social media for the physical therapy profession and the overall state of current PT practice. In our humble opinion, we believe we have the greatest profession in medicine. However, a lot of us are limiting the capabilities and ultimately the responsibilities of our profession. We discuss how we are such a unique profession that can give so much to our clients with education, targeted exercises, manual therapy and so much more.

Lazy PTs are causing individuals to end up in chronic pain, making it harder for future PTs, the entire medical system and most importantly the client. Let's use all our amazing capabilities to resolve our clients pain and limitations faster and without the need of further medical intervention. It is time to level up as a profession!

Piggybacking off of our ACL part 1 episode we discuss the remaining phases of the ACL rehab and returning our clients to performance and sport! We discuss ACL protocols, do we follow them or not? We go in depth on how we get our clients to running, advanced strengthening and what markers/testing we look for to make sure our clients are confident in returning to sport! One of the few times Dr. Jeremy Boyd and Dr.Brandon Cruz offer completely different treatment approaches from each other in a discussion of whether balancing activities vs traditional strength/power/compound exercises is better for the client. So this is definitely a spicy one! Check out the video here or on our youtube page (search Manips and Sips) to see the research we reference, the testing, manual therapy and more!

Sips Provided By: American Solera 🍺 with a Red, White, and Brew glass and Bib & Tucker 🥃

In this episode we discuss why it is absolutely essential to get the ball rolling early for our ACL reconstructions! We discuss the importance of getting early extension/ROM, what strategies we perform to get ROM, manual therapy we use, quad inhibition, the research and so much more! Check out the video to see the actual techniques and interventions we use! Stay tuned to next weeks episode on the remaining phases and return to sport/running!

Sips provided by Bonesaw Brewing Co. (Swoosh IPA)🍺 and Bib & Tucker

Episode 13: Are we really giving the Green Light on all exercises regardless of form? We have seen this recent popularity that all forms of exercises are acceptable and movement is the answer (which we agree with) but when do draw the line on what can be helpful to the client or detrimental? A true 🔫 the 💩 episode! Cheers everyone! 🍻 #MondayManips

n this episode we discuss the 🔥 topic of Direct Access in physical therapy. As we both own Orthopedic/Sports private practices that primarily treat clients without physician referrals. We discuss how we implement it in our personal practices, what type of clinician should practice Direct Access (DA), why we believe it’s important that we continue to practice it as a profession, DA case studies and so much more!

In this episode we talk about the importance of Regional Interdependence and how we can get our musculoskeletal patients better, faster by treating away from the problem area. We explain what RI is, how we evolved in our application of it, case studies and the research supporting it. We also discuss poor sips choice by Dr. Boyd 🤦🏽‍♂️. Cheers to another good episode!!

Episode 24: What do Physical Therapists do when they can't do hands-on techniques?

In this episode we discuss of how current state of things (COVI-19) have definitely challenged healthcare practitioners (PT, OT, ATC, DC) in delivering the best care they can from afar or virtually. Clinicians who blend and implement hands-on therapy into their treatments may feel at a loss. So we decided to help!

In this live episode we discuss how what you can do to help our clients virtually including self-mobilizations for those that would have benefited from manual therapy or when life is restored to normal can use these techniques to faciliate and enhance the manual therapy you provided in the clinic! This is a great episode to improve your ability to prescribe home exercise programs and ultimately foster independence with our clients!

Sips provided by Stone Brewing 🍺 and Buchanan's US 🥃

Side note: Episodes 11-21 will be dropping soon on our apple podcast as they were unfortunately never published due to our previous distributor. These episodes are great and discuss more specific conditions such as plantar fasciitis, LBP, SIJ, PFPS, ITB and much much more!

Shake off the rust of quarantine and get those hands moving again! Unfortunately, COVID has led to a loss of hands on interventions provided by PTs. And as we know, if you don't use it, you lose it. So Dr. Boyd and Cruz decided to show our fans our best DYI at home tricks and strategies to improve those manual skills and quick hands! Check out our video on our page for live demonstrations of the techniques! 🍌 🧻 💨.

Sips provided by Dr. Boyd Brewing 🍺 and Bib & Tucker 🥃.