What if your neck pain isn't actually about your neck?

Nadine has been calling Dr. Jared Gerston a magician for years and this week she finally put him on mic to explain why. Dr. Gerston is a chiropractor in Ottawa, but what he does in that treatment room goes so far beyond what you think a chiropractor does - so much so that Nadine genuinely couldn't explain it to people so she stopped trying and just started sending them to him.

This episode gets into all of it - a technique called PDTR that essentially asks your brain to stop compensating for injuries it thinks you still have. The visit when Nadine thought she had neck pain from her pickleball obsession while Dr. Gerston quietly traced it back to something emotional she thought she'd already dealt with. The way stress, grief, and trauma can live in your body long after your mind has "moved on", and what to actually do about it.

But it's also just a really beautiful conversation about a human who took a psychology degree, wandered through India and Nepal for fifteen months, spent five years in Taiwan studying Tai Chi, stumbled into chiropractic school almost by accident, built a thriving multidisciplinary practice and is now, at the height of it all, walking away from owning it to go deeper into something that makes his whole body relax when he talks about it.

This one's for anyone who's ever had a body that seemed to be keeping score long after they thought they'd settled the debt.

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