Ryan Vesce played professional hockey in six countries. He also went through back surgery, hip surgery, chronic pain and the kind of physical wear that ends a lot of careers early.

What changed everything? Frustration. And then desperation.

We talk with Ryan about hitting a point where "manage it" stopped being a good enough answer. So he and his strength coach started pulling best-in-practice ideas from practitioners in all the different countries he playeid in, just to keep him on the ice.

That mindset eventually became Matterhorn Fit and his post-playing passion.

This episode isn't about hockey. It's about refusing to accept that broken is permanent on a new episode of The Back 9.

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