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Guest Host Elizabeth – Coffee with Jackie “Acceptance”
Mike and Glenn turn over the host mic to Elizabeth, a previous guest. She is joined by the boys and Jackie, a “sister in the program.” Listen in as they chat about accountability, acceptance, relationships, the eighth and ninth steps, and, of course, the God thing.
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The guys discuss why you have to set your manager down to make eggs above Niagara Falls, when a sarcastically smiling moon only adds humor to an otherwise indescribable morning, and how there’s no copay for at home dentistry.
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Fresh off of flight. Fresh off of flight. I changed in the bathroom. I I was gonna ask, like, what was your routine, like, getting off the flight and then getting ready for a year? Like, that was fast.
Well, I have a specific airport fit, so I usually wear my, like, Fabletics set suits and stuff. So you’re ready to go? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
And then you just like hopped on the plane. Yeah. I picked you up. We’re here now. Yeah.
Super fast. Yes. Oh, man. Thank you for doing this. I really appreciate it.
Yeah. Of course. You’re not, like, starving or anything. Stuff. No.
I’m okay. I’m going to dinner after this. Oh, perfect. Where are you going? Over the road.
Beatrix. Oh, yeah. Okay. In West Loop? Or which one?
We’re going to River North. Okay. Yeah. How’s that one? I think I’ve been to that one before.
I don’t think I’ve been to that one either. I’ve been to the one in West Loop before. I like that one. Yeah. What are you gonna order?
I have no idea. I have not looked at the menu. I forgot what it it even is the menu. My friend is, like, fully gluten free. So I’m usually like, you pick.
I’ll work with whatever. We eat pretty similar foods anyway. So Mhmm. What are you craving? What am I craving?
Yeah. Oh, I mean, I always crave sushi, but I don’t think they have that. Yeah. I don’t know. It’ll depend on sushi?
I don’t think so. Think so. I don’t even remember what they have, honestly, but I’m sure I’ll get some type of chicken based dish or whatnot. What’s your second favorite food besides Asian food? Mediterranean.
I love anything Mediterranean. Yeah. Such as? I mean, Greek food is a little different. I mean, there’s so many different types of meals, but anything that has, like, vegetables and rices and some type of meat, usually, my go to meat is, like, beef, lamb, or chicken.
No pork. No pork. Never. No. Never.
I don’t know the last time I ate pork. When was the last time you ate pork? It probably was, like what am I, 27? At least 15 years ago. Okay.
Yeah. What’d you think of it? You just didn’t like it? It just right away So I used to eat turkey bacon. Well, actual bacon, and then I turned to turkey bacon.
But this was, like, middle school, high school. But I would pick it apart because I hated the fat. Like, I don’t like The fat. My yeah. I I would pick it apart, so I would only eat the red part.
Yeah? Yeah. So then at that point, it’s like, what what are you eating for? What’s even a point of us? Yeah.
Avoid. Yeah. I feel you. I love well, I don’t love pork. I think I told you on the car ride over.
Yeah. It’s like beef, chicken, and then pork’s kinda way down here too. But Okay. Yeah. Should probably get into some physical therapy stuff here.
We’re gonna keep all that in, by the way. Yeah. But this art of wellness episode 6, thank you for subscribing. Thank you for listening. We got doctor Melanie here.
What’s up? How are you? How are you? Pretty good. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. But lots of PT talk today. So Yes. I have an outlet that I always say I’ll look at, and I probably won’t.
But, hopefully, we will hit most of this stuff, very physical therapy heavy podcast, and which is something we both love. Yeah. Right? I do apologize. Yes.
Yes. Yeah. What’s your favorite part of the profession? I’m already going off topic. No.
You’re good. You’re good. Go off topic. It doesn’t matter. My favorite part of the profession, I think, is the, like, diverse diversity aspect of what we can treat and do.
Like, I think there’s so much to the profession, and a lot of people think it’s, like, one thing. Like, I had one patient that literally was like, I thought PT was only for, like, post surgeries. And I was like, oh, that hurt my heart because there’s so much more that we do and can treat and see and whatnot. So just our scope. Our scope.
Our scope. I was gonna say that too because we’re so we could do a lot of things. We can work at so much. Hospitals, schools, nursing homes, professional sports teams, private practice like myself. Yeah.
We’re so diverse, and people think we’re massage therapists Oh my gosh. Or personal trainers. Yes. And that’s one of our biggest pet peeves. Right?
Mhmm. How often do you get that? You know, I haven’t gotten it as much recently. Mhmm. 2, 3 clinics ago.
Okay. I had this, like, younger he was probably, like, 18, and he was like, I’ve never had my own personal trainer before. And I was like, physical therapist before. PT. Yeah.
It gets very Yeah. Convoluted. Settings for sure, but I also think, like, the actual diagnosis is also huge, like, what we can treat. Like, I feel like everyone just thinks knees, shoulders, hips, like, are the bigger joints and areas of the body. But, like, we can treat, you know, pelvic floor constipation, other things, and concussions, and Mhmm.
Dizziness, and headaches. Yep. Yep. I mean, we’re very diverse in our what we can treat, and it’s you know, school is rigorous. Yes.
But I wanted to start with, like, where did your love of physical therapy come from? Was it during undergrad? No. Before. In high school, actually.
Okay. So you’re way earlier than I was. Okay. So go ahead and Yeah. Tell us that story.
So do you swear on this podcast? Fuck yeah. Okay. Okay. I couldn’t I didn’t remember, and I was like, I don’t know how how professional you wanna be.
Not really. Okay. So You’re chilling. In high school, I took an anatomy and physiology class junior year, and I originally actually was into graphic design. Like, that’s the route I thought I was gonna take.
Mhmm. I’ve always been really into, like, the arts and just creative things. Mhmm. And then I Where’s my phone? Go ahead.
I’m listening. And then I took anatomy and physiology, and I was like, what the fuck? The human body is actually insane. Mhmm. And I fell in love with the human body Yeah.
And just, like, learning anatomy and physiology. Mhmm. And I was like, what can I do with this? I didn’t wanna go to medical school because I did not want to be a medical doctor. Okay.
I have always been I’ve I’ve always been very, like, intuitive, and I’ve been thinking about it more recently, but I’ve always been into, like, holistic health and more, like, natural ways of treating things. Mhmm. So I was like, I don’t I don’t care about pharmacology. I that’s not the area of medicine I wanna go into. And then I just kind of, I don’t know, thought of PT, and I was like, you know, I like this.
This sounds really cool, and it’s a lot of anatomy, for sure. So Okay. So you loved anatomy then by the way. I loved anatomy. And, actually, my friends that were just visiting, we were talking about high school, and she was like, I remember you, like, were ranting about anatomy to me and how much you loved it.
And then she’s, like, a very much English brain Yeah. Not as much like the science. Mhmm. And she was like Oh, I see. And I she took it because I loved it so much.
Mhmm. And she was like, what the fuck? Like, I can’t do this. But yeah. Yeah.
So I think for me, like, I think it was a junior at at North Central. Yeah. I was a junior. I was taking all, like, the science classes. I don’t know if I wanna do med school and pharmacy, what other, you know, health profession there is.
But Yeah. I think once I learned that physical therapy can be more, like, active, holistic, like you said Yeah. It definitely, like, gravitated towards me. So I I shadowed them. I loved the clinics.
I loved working with those type of types of people. It was super fun for me. And then I fell in love with it. So that’s what kinda brought me there. But it was a lot later for me than for you.
So what did you major in when going into college? Exercise science. Okay. What was your major? Kinesiology.
Yeah. Same thing. Yeah. But I was like, I have a set plan, and I, like, every semester would, like, write out all the classes I was gonna take and my plan for everything because I wanted to graduate early too. Oh.
And so yeah. Yeah. So you did all that then. You did. Wow.
Where’d you go to undergrad? Miami of Ohio. Oh, cool. Yeah. How was that?
It was good. I I have no regrets. I liked it. Okay. But, you know Sounds like a deeper story there.
I mean, it’s just it’s a very white school. Like, it’s predominantly white. Yeah. And with that, like, I come from the city, inner city of Chicago. Mhmm.
So diversity was definitely lacking. And you’re Greek Greek and Greek and black. Okay. Yes. I’m Mexican.
We’re very diverse on this podcast here. So yeah. So that was like a cult also, it’s in the middle of nowhere. So, like, huge culture shock. Yeah.
It is. Yeah. Yes. It was very different than what I was used to. So, you know, I found my people.
But yeah. It was Not fun, It just it was fun. It was very fun. I just you have to find your people. Yes.
And that’s the biggest thing. And you found them? Yeah. Yeah. That’s good.
Yeah. And then you graduated early, you said? Yes. This semester early. Mhmm.
And then did you go to PT school after that, right afterwards? Right after. And you went where again? Northwestern. Northwestern.
That’s right. Okay. Cool. And how was that overall? Is that two and a half years?
Like Yeah. Pretty much. I went to University of Iowa, so we were two and a half years too. Yeah. Yeah.
Probably the same time. I like the fast I do too. Taste of it too. Yeah. It was, yeah, tough, but Very tough.
Very tough. Might as well get it done. Yeah. That’s what I always say. Yeah.
Yeah. How was 1st semester for you? Because 1st semester for me was the toughest. Yeah. I we actually talked about this on the my podcast.
Okay. Which is what again? It is the Physio Diaries. Mhmm. K.
Great podcast. Yes. Yes. Go check it out. We fully endorse it here in the Art of Wellness podcast.
Yep. But 1st 1st semester, 1st year, it literally felt like the only thing I did was study and party. It was like, you studied. Oh, you partied. You partied.
You studied. You partied. Yeah. And that was it. And, yes.
Yes. We were very much I well, my friend group, I guess, was more of the going out crowd. For sure. And so, yeah, it was yeah. Do you think every semester was just as tough as the previous one?
No. I think the 1st year was the hardest. I think so too. Yeah. Yeah.
I’ve heard that a lot. Such a shock in your, like, routine mentality, everything. I remember sitting in bed being like, do I wanna fucking do this? Like, is this really what I wanna do? Is this really for me?
Yeah. Yeah. It was a lot. But once you get into clinicals, then you’re like, okay. I, like, I remember why I wanna do this.
But, also, not all clinicals, obviously, are not the same. Right. All settings are not the same. Yep. So some clinicals, I was like, yeah.
I definitely can’t do that. Other clinicals, I was like, okay. I like this. So You said hospital clinicals were not for you. Right?
Yes. I am not a cute care girl. Mhmm. It is not for me. I can’t it’s like sensory overload.
Okay. Do you ever get that when you’re in the hospitals? Well, I work I was telling you, I work PRN at the hospital by me, so that’s, you know, I’m there, like, twice a month Yeah. At most. Yeah.
I guess I do. Yeah. But I don’t I don’t know. But I guess since you’re not really there that much Maybe that’s why. Yeah.
It’s like you don’t really think about it as much. Sure. Yeah. But I don’t know. I got sensory overload in my acute care clinical.
Okay. Just all the sounds, all the smells, all the everything, all the lines and tubes. I was like, it’s too much. Yes. Lots of smells.
Yeah. Lots of, yeah, stuff going on. It’s a hospital, you know. It’s hustle and bustle. There’s a lot of stuff going on.
Yeah. Ton ton of different patients. I mean, people sick. People when I was there 2 weeks ago, lots of hip fractures from, you know, the ice and everything around here. Hip fractures.
A lot of flu and stuff still. But That’s fair. It wasn’t like I mean It’s such a different way of treatment too. Like, it’s just making sure they’re safe. Safe.
Get them moving. What what was your you had an acute care clinical? Yes. My, which one was it? I think it was my no.
My first clinical was at UChicago in Hyde Park. Oh, okay. Acute care there. And I think, like you initially, I was like I wasn’t gonna like it. But I like the team aspect sometimes of the health care team.
Like, we’re all working together for the patient. Like, I walk in, the nurse comes in, the MD comes in. We’re all there, like, trying to, like, see what’s going on, game planning for the patient. Yeah. That’s right.
Was kinda cool. And, honestly, I I would love to replicate that for my private practice soon, obviously. But Yeah. So I like that part of the health of a hospital, working at the hospital. Yeah.
But it’s it was different for me because I’m more of a sporty guy. I like working with athletes, and I’ve grown to appreciate the the hospital setting, I think. But yeah. But PT school was rough. I think for me too, the initial shock of 1st semester was like Mhmm.
A lot of anatomy, a lot of kinesiology, just, like, no life for a while. Literally no life. Yeah. No life. Lots of studying.
The first few tests were rough for me. Mhmm. But then once you get the hang of it, I was like, oh, okay. Like, I get it now. I know what they want from me.
You learn kind of the system your system of studying how to get things done. I think they try to weed out a lot of people in the 1st semester. Yeah. Well, okay. Actually, that’s interesting.
Did your did your school have people that dropped out after the 1st semester? I think we had 2 or 3. Okay. Because I’ve heard some schools after the 1st year mine, we did not have anyone that dropped out. There was one person that just, like, paused and then came back the following year.
Mhmm. But Northwestern really did try, like, hard to keep people and not, like, have people leave. Like, there was different systems they had in place for that. But, yeah, I’ve heard of other schools, though, that have like, are bad with, like, their Oh, yeah. Yeah.
No. We weren’t bad. I think one person, he was just, like, married, had kids. It was like a second career for him. So he’s kinda just left.
Yeah. Some I think it might have just been that person now that I think about it. But Okay. Well, then, yeah. That’s not bad.
How big was your class? 92. 92? That’s big. Ours was 40.
Okay. Yeah. That’s like a 40. Yeah. I feel like.
82 is not even that big. Okay. Yeah. It’s like normal, but most this that Northwestern had the biggest class I’d ever seen. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah. I feel like most schools are, like, 50, 60. Yeah. Yeah.
I would say so. Did you like that, like, bigger class environment? Yeah. Actually, I did. I didn’t mind it.
I never really, like, thought about it too much. Yeah. Yeah. We had a lot of faculty, and we had a lot of different, like, teams and whatnot. So, yeah, it was okay.
Were you guys very clicky and stuff? Yes. Very clicky. With a class that big, like, very clicky. Yeah.
Yeah. There was the distinct front of the room and the distinct back of the room Mhmm. And then the inner clicks from outside, like, outside of school. Yeah. Yeah.
I’m trying to remember, like, how we were to because you graduated what? 2 1 wait. 2020. 2023. Okay.
Yeah. I graduated in late 16 December 16. So I think it’s 2016? Yeah. Okay.
So I was thinking 17 because I started working, 17, like, soon after that. So I’m always thinking, like, did I graduate 2017? But it was actually December 16. Oh, okay. I see.
Did you guys graduate in the summer? Or Spring. In April. April. Okay.
Did you take the the big test right afterwards? Oh, yeah. I took it in April. Actually, we graduated, and the week after was the April board exam. Yeah.
So, I I have heard schools that do it differently, but we had to have a certain GPA to be able to take it in April. Okay. But most of the class I think it was a certain GPA. There was, like, a certain criteria. Mhmm.
But most of the class, like, had that criteria. And I think half of us took April, half of us took July. Yeah. But our last clinical ended, like, the last week of March. And so me and my roommate, also my cohost on my podcast, we both took it Mhmm.
In April together. We were actually living together at times, so we, like, studied together for it. But it it was a grind. Yeah. Yeah.
I didn’t I really didn’t study during clinical, and I, like, crammed 4 weeks. Wow. Yeah. I’m a I’m a crammer. You’re a crammer?
I’m a crammer. I think I would I think I am too sometimes. Well, in PT school, I had to, like, not cram as much. But if if needed, I can cram. Yeah.
Yeah. But how was the test overall for you? I thought I failed. I As I think everybody. Yeah.
Yeah. I got out of it, and I was like, I don’t even know. Like, what am I gonna do if I fail? At this point, I already had my job secured, and I was gonna start my first travel contract in June. Yep.
So I was like, fuck. If I fail, like, I’m gonna have to extend that, and I won’t be able to start working. And, like, I need the money to start working. Mhmm. And I was like, I just can’t fail.
But I felt like I failed, and I don’t know if it was for you, but we took it on a Thursday. I don’t remember. It was, like, right before the weekend. Okay. And that entire weekend for me.
Yep. Mhmm. That entire weekend, I was in bed watching Grey’s Anatomy just, like, down, depressed, like yeah. I couldn’t do shit that. Failed.
I thought I failed. Yeah. For sure. I I had a different experience. I think it was my oh, like, I was one of the few people from my class, I think, that because I took it I took it soon after too.
But I remember vividly the first two questions were super hard for me. Yes. And then at that moment, I was like, oh, I’m gonna fail. Yeah. This is it.
Like, I did all that school for no reason. All that money. It was I thinking about it now, it’s so crazy because, like, in that moment, I remember the shock of those two questions. But shortly after that, it got easier and easier for me. And I was like, oh, okay.
I got this. Yeah. And I finished it super fast, and I walked out. And I was like, oh, I for sure aced them. I don’t know why, like, I but maybe just I was so nervous, the first two questions.
Yeah. Maybe, like, once my mind cleared too. I mean, stress can just play tricks on you, you know. A lot of mind games doing those exams. But, you know, I tell students now all the time is, like, that information’s in your head somewhere.
You just gotta, like, pull it out. Like, we all learn the same stuff, the same rigorous schedule, all the same areas of study. It’s in there, and they prepare you for the MPTE to pass that specific test. Yeah. But yeah.
I think even once I I got into the flow of taking the test and, like, what kind of questions they wanted, like, looking back on the practice test I took, I was like, oh, I know what they want from this question. Mhmm. I got in the flow of it, and I was like, oh, this isn’t bad at all. So I think it’s, you know, it’s a big Did you pass the first time? Oh, yeah.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think did you? Yes.
Yes. Okay. But, you know, we’re all nervous about it when we graduate. But I don’t think it’s as scary as it seems if you The MPT? Scary as in like, like, when we graduate, everybody’s so scared to take it, I’m saying.
I don’t think it’s that scary. You know, if you don’t make it that scary, as long as you, again, study Mhmm. Whatever books I forgot the books that they’re called. There’s so many. I think it is, what is it?
The old Sullivan’s or something? I don’t know. Therapied. One. Therapied?
Oh, did I use Therapied? I did use Therapied. And that those tests were way harder for me. Yes. Oh, gosh.
You know what I’m talking about. Yeah. Therapied. There’s score no. I don’t know.
Score builders? Yeah. That was the one. Those 2. Yeah.
Yes. That’s all you really need. Yeah. Those ones are hard. Oh my gosh.
The Therapied ones were super hard, and I was like, oh, this is I’m gonna fail again. Did you did you take a lot of practice tests? I took 3 Okay. I think. Okay.
What about you? I think I took 6. Dang. I was, like, studying the exams. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. The therapeutic ones I failed, like, the first two that I took.
Yeah. And the last one I barely passed. Yeah. And I was like, this is gonna be impossible. Yeah.
But those questions are way more dense and way more, like, detailed. Yeah. Where the NPT ones were more, like, half of that. And there’s always, like, 2 answers that weren’t even, like, they’re just so dumb. Like, no.
Those can’t be right. Yeah. And then just just 2 more answers you could pick from, and you just pick the one that, you know Yeah. Pick your first instinct as I always say. Mhmm.
So you thought you were gonna fail. You didn’t fail. I didn’t fail. Good. I did.
Yes. So and they started working soon after, you said. Right? Yeah. I took yeah.
So the end the April board exam was at the end of the month. So I took all of May off, and I started the 1st week of June. Yeah. And how was that starting to work? Do you feel did you feel like what’s the I mean, people always say imposter syndrome.
Right? Did did you feel that right away? You know, I don’t think I did that much. There were sir certain things I was very confident about and other things I was like, I don’t know. But, actually, the there was one therapist in the clinic I was at.
Mhmm. And she had made a comment to me that just, like, always stuck with me, But, obviously, I was a new grad, like, fresh fresh new grad Mhmm. Doing travel. And she was like, oh, you’re, like you’re a new grad? You are, like seems so confident.
And I was like, thank you. I am. Like, should I not be confident? Like, what do you want me to be? Like, a nervous new grad?
Like, what? And so, yeah, that always stuck with me. But, I do feel imposter syndrome at times, but I don’t like, I would not say I regularly feel that. Okay. Yeah.
Or at least at that time at that time. Yeah. Did you have that recently at all? No. No.
Mm-mm. Do you have an experience where you remember in your head, like, oh, I definitely had impostor syndrome at this time that you remember offhand, like a, like a patient you had or something? Yes. There was this was a vestibular case. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah. And, honestly, the most that I’ve, like, had to really rethink things was more of, like, vestibular cases that are not, like, the standard. But now I’ve had so many freaking vestibular cases that now I’m like I feel confident. Yeah.
But, yeah, this was at the first place. Gotcha. And there was definitely red flags, but it was like I don’t know. Her presentation, everything did not make any sense. And so, also not a great historian.
Oh, one of those. Yeah. One of those. And, also, like, symptom presentation was all over the place. Things didn’t add up.
So then I was like, okay. I need other people to, like, see her and check this out because I just I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing. Yeah. And you had mentors and stuff there to help you out? To an extent.
Yeah. Yeah. Like, there there was one person that I felt like I could always rely on. Okay. And then other people, like, here and there, like, you could always talk to.
But yeah. Okay. We should probably backtrack a little bit. So because travel therapy, I don’t think people even know what that is. So can you Good point.
Tell the people what travel physical therapy is, what it involves? So pretty much, it is similar idea to travel nursing. It just is the physical therapy version. So it could be in any setting or most settings. So acute care, inpatient, outpatient.
And I think a lot of times people don’t realize you could be outpatient physical travel physical therapist. Think I knew that either. Yeah. Yeah. And I don’t think it originally started that way.
I think it originally started as more acute care SNF, like That’s how I thought of it. Yep. Yes. Mhmm. But now it’s really like, outpatient travel PT is definitely blowing up.
Okay. But every 3 months, contracts are always for 3 months. And then you can choose to extend Mhmm. If you want to or if the need is there. But yeah.
So but I am an internal travel physical therapist, so there’s internal and external. So with internal, I stick with one company. So I just go to their clinics and, it’s a lot more stable. Like, I actually have a salary on top of, like, my travel stipend, and there’s like like, I have access to all the CUs, the benefits, everything. It’s like a it’s like a normal, I guess, employee, not as much contract.
Mhmm. But external travel physical therapy is more contract. Mhmm. So, like, you don’t really, So, like, you don’t really get I mean, you can get the benefits if you want. Like, most likely, you’re gonna be switching companies, recruiters, all the things.
So yeah. Got it. Alright. Yeah. And then vestibular Yes.
Population. Can you describe that for people that don’t even know what that is probably? So vestibular is anything having to do with your inner ear and, like, balance centers equilibrium. A lot of times, like, vertigo is just one diagnosis within the vestibular system. But, like, there’s a vestibular hypofunction.
There’s, you can have both sides affected as well. There’s central nervous system involvement, so, like, brain, spinal cord, or any of, like, cranial nerve nerve pathways, that can be affected. Mhmm. And I do like treating neuro. So now at clinics, I feel like I always get thrown the neuro and vestibular.
Mhmm. Yeah. But I like treating them because they’re just, like, fun and different, and concussion overlaps with that as well. So a lot of times, I always say concussion and vestibular are treated, like, almost the same. Yes.
Okay. I remember at my old clinic, I I did a few concussions. Some probably not as well versed as you are in it, but I was okay at it. I thought it was It’s tricky. It’s very tricky.
It’s tricky. And the the presentations, like, you can have someone who’s like, I’m fine. I just get a little dizzy in a turning, and then the person who literally can’t walk for, like, 5 minutes because their whole body shuts down. Yeah. So there’s just such a wide range, and I think that’s the hardest part with that.
I think that was fun, though. I mean, I like concussions. It was fun treating them also. We’re gonna yeah. I mean, health care involves a lot of stuff, like, you know, us saying we love treating concussions and seeing all these different diagnoses.
But, and it is I mean, it’s a passion for us to help these people. So, but yeah. So I so that’s your first job now. Right? Yes.
That’s your only job you’ve ever had. Yes. Yes. I worked outpatient, at a general clinic around here, whatever. We call them the me and Rami called them Taco Bell of Physical Therapy Clinics.
I mean, they’re all, like, chain clinics. They’re all, you know Yes. Cookie cutter Yeah. Corporate clinics. Right?
Yeah. And again, I told you, you know, talking to you earlier, like, as a new grad, it’s fine. You learn super fast. You know, all this experience all at once. You see a ton of patients all at once during the week.
It’s fine. It’s fun. But then it starts to wear on you. Mhmm. The corporate infrastructure starts to, like, bog you down.
Mhmm. And then that’s when I was, like, I don’t know. Was this, like, 3 years in, 4 years in? I don’t remember when I left that job. But because you just had you stuck with the same company?
Yes. Okay. Yeah. That I worked there, like, straight out of school. Because I was there before before PT School as an aide.
So, like, I was just, like Gotcha. I was already, kind of, shoot in there anyway. I was close to home. It was fine. You know, everybody there.
It was fine. So but, you know, the clinic itself is fine. It’s just when the corporate hierarchy starts making demands of you. And they’re like, oh, make sure you bill this much. Make sure you do this.
Or see this many people in this one time. They start to say it in these legal terms that, you know, are borderline unethical. And we’re not dumb. Like, we know we can see through their bullshit, you know. And after a while, I was like, okay.
Like, you just want me to bill more for more money. Yep. Yeah. Health care. Like, it’s a business at the end of the day.
Yeah. So But I I hate that term when people say health care is a business. It is. But Well, but they make it, like, corporate PT world makes it. The spectrum of helping people to make another business should not be more on the business side, I think.
For sure. I mean, the health care industry is a hot topic nowadays right now even. And we know firsthand how much it it’s annoying. And it sucks for people getting denied claims. Yeah.
Insurance is a bitch to deal with. Yeah. And I don’t deal with that anymore, thankfully. Yeah. So Do you have any, like, regrets of leaving sooner?
Or You mean, like, should I have left sooner? Or Do you ever think about I think it was like, you left at a good time. I think I told you, like, everything happens for a reason. I think that was a good Yeah. Time for me to step away from it.
I was still relatively young enough to be like, okay. I’m I’m good. I know where I’m at in the PT, clinical world. Like, I had some experience. I wasn’t, like, super good yet, but I think I was good enough to start my own thing, which I did, thankfully.
And now it’s all cash based. No insurance stuff. They could all many people are just switching over that now. Yeah. Yeah.
Is that something you wanna do? Yes. Definitely. Down down the line. Mhmm.
I still wanna take advantage of the travel perks for now. Mhmm. But once I stop traveling, I wanna do my own thing. Like, I don’t think I can go from travel to being, like, full time at a normal, like yeah. No.
No. No. No. I don’t advise it. But, and then you wanna take you told me dry needling is one thing you wanna take.
Yes. Which is fun. We love dry needling. Yeah. Every state has, like, different rules.
So I actually was supposed to take it last year. Mhmm. But since I’m in Florida right now, you can’t, like, you have to be 2 years out of school. So I, like, couldn’t even practice it if I got it. So I was like, I’ll just do it this year.
Yeah. I know in New York, they still can’t dry needle. Oh, yeah. According to one of my friends no. I know California doesn’t.
Okay. Okay. So they don’t New York, though. No. My friend told me they can’t dry needle there either.
And she’s a public floor PT too. Gotcha. But yeah. Interesting. So California can’t either.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So many states have different rules. Georgia, they don’t care.
That tracks. Yeah. So dry needling. What else are you certified in? Pelvic floor.
Pelvic floor. Mhmm. What else have you taken courses wise? Concussion, vestibular. Yep.
Mhmm. Yeah. Got it. And then, yeah, pelvic floor level 1 certified. Yeah.
So that means more of, like, incontinence, prolapse, constipation, but, like, we do internal exams. That’s what I was gonna ask. Is that with the first class first course, you do that right away? Mhmm. Yep.
Okay. What’s an internal exam for people that don’t know? So it is very different than a gynecological exam. Okay? That is always what I start with.
It is pretty much just like palpating any muscle. Right? Like, if you have neck pain, you wanna feel what the tone feels like and whatnot. So it’s just the same thing internally. Mhmm.
So, obviously, we use a ton of lubricant, and we make it as comfortable as possible. It’s not like your legs are in stirrups. Absolutely not. But then we go in vaginally. Rectally is, like, the later courses, so we don’t do rectally in level 1.
Was gonna ask about. Okay. And I don’t think I care to get that certification. I think you can learn what you need to vaginally. Yes.
But the pelvic floor has 3 layers to it. Mhmm. And within each layer, there’s, you know, like, 3 different muscles and whatnot. So if you look at your finger Mhmm. Each knuckle is the layers.
So layer 1, layer 2, layer 3. And layer 3 is, like, your biggest elevator ani and the bigger muscles. Mhmm. And so we’re also, like, feeling for muscle contractions and, like, if people can properly perform pelvic floor contraction, AKA Kegel, but a lot of people don’t do it correctly. And, also, the relaxation phase is just as important.
But we’re feeling for tone and pain. Like, technically, it shouldn’t be painful. Right. So if it is painful, there’s more tone into that muscle, which can cause issues and is a sin, pelvic floor dysfunction. Yeah.
Pelvic floor is super cool. I think I’m gonna take that class in the summer, the first one. So I can’t wait for that either. But, definitely a population that I think is definitely growing in PT. We see it all over social media too, pelvic floor stuff.
And, I mean, it relates to so much, like, the bigger picture of things. And, also, the pelvic floor world has developed so much within the past, like, 5 to 10 years because I feel like it started off as a lot of manual and a lot of, like, you’re always doing internal stuff, which is technically not what we want or what we’re trained to do now. So, like, we wanna get to functional as quickly as possible. Mhmm. So, like, I if I have pelvic floor patients, like, we are not doing internal every single session.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It just depends. Yeah.
It depends. Yes. Is the main answer for everything in physical therapy. Even, like, medical related, it depends on the patient. Yeah.
What’s your favorite? Is neuro your favorite, population to treat? Okay. What’s your favorite population to treat then? Population.
I don’t know if I have a specific population. Well, I guess more, like, diagnosis. Okay. Sure. Yeah.
Yeah. So I really like Parkinson’s. Okay. I love treating Parkinson’s, and they’re just so fun. I do like concussions.
I love anything foot and ankle. Oh, really? Yeah. That’s probably my least favorite. Have a foot fetish, but, like, I just love treating the foot and ankle.
It’s just so fun to me. Like, it’s just it’s so interesting and so overlooked. I like the shoulder. Shoulder’s cool. Yeah.
And pelvic floor. But, specifically, I guess, like, vaginismus and, like, pelvic pain. Yeah. So now all these terms that we don’t know, Melanie, what’s Yes. Vaginismus?
So pretty much just, like, internal pelvic pain. So there’s, like, different areas. Like, vulvodynia is more the outside sensitivity. There’s a little more, like, neuro involvement, but then more internally, like, pain with sex and penetration, that is a pelvic floor diagnosis and, dysfunction. So I like to treat that.
Yeah. Just just her smile when saying that. I like to treat that. Okay. So that’s so shoulder you said too?
Yeah. Cervical stuff? No. Neck? Okay.
I actually hate treating cervical. Really? Okay. I shouldn’t say hate, but I don’t like that’s probably my least favorite. Okay.
Yeah. So any, like, cervical radiculopathy type stuff, which is pain referring down, nerve type sensations on the arm. Okay. Yeah. Not my fave.
I mean, I do it all the time, but there’s usually there’s a lot of the times what I see is a huge psychological component as well. And a lot of times, like, it’s really the chronic pain that gets me because there’s always so many factors involved, and a lot of people need other help outside of physical therapy that don’t get it. So it’s just a lot more challenging. Yeah. Elaborate on that.
I like that. Yeah. Well, if it’s more chronic, usually like, I literally have had patients be like, I’ve had this pain for 10 years, and I’m like, oh, yikes. Like, that’s so much harder to treat. And even the tolerance to any activity, the pain science, having, like, them understand that, like, PT is not gonna fix 10 years of pain in, like, 2 sessions, and, like, their perception of pain is also different.
Time lines. Yeah. Mhmm. Yes. Time lines or perception.
A lot of times, stress and anxiety plays a huge role. Yep. Mhmm. So, like, even talking to people in terms of stress management can be so hard because it’s like, well, I have 4 kids and I work and I do this and that and I care for my parents. And it’s like, well, shit.
Like, that’s hard and, like, I’m not gonna tell you not to do these things that’s stressing you out and whatnot. So, like, getting some maybe other therapy would be beneficial. Yeah. But also talking to people about that can be really hard because then they’re, like, dismissive. Oh, I don’t have time for that or, like Right.
I don’t know. I’ll see. Yeah. It gets tricky. Pain I mean, there’s a lot of overlap with physical pain and mental pain, I always tell people.
I’ve referred people to, you know, other mental health experts that I know within the Naperville, Bolingbrook area, if needed, you know. But, you know, it’s it’s a touchy subject. But, you know, patients always tell me a lot of things too. So, like, in a way, we’re kind of their therapist both in a way, you know. It’s kind of the joke between physical therapists is patients tell us a lot of things.
Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. So many things. They’ll unload their whole life in trauma. Which is fine.
I’m more than happy to listen, especially now that I work from, you know, for myself. You know, I have much more time to actually listen to people and sit there. You know, an eval I had today, an evaluation I had today was it was like 30 minutes of talking. Yeah. We didn’t do a lot of hands on work.
It was a lot of lifestyle modifications, a lot of talking, a lot of kinda reframing her ideas of pain. Yeah. She’s had back pain for 3 okay. I’m gonna start bad mouthing other professions here. I’m not gonna name any profession, but, she’s had back pain for for 3 years seeing x other practitioner, which you probably know who I’m talking about.
Oh my god. And the stuff they were doing was essentially nothing. Yeah. They were just doing all meds. So they’re doing exercise.
No exercise at all. Yeah. She didn’t know how to do a pelvic tilt, activate her Oh. Abdominals, any of that stuff. Yeah.
Yes. I was like, did they not teach you this in 3 years of going to this person? Yeah. And she’s like, no. That’s so unfortunate.
And I was like, oh, man. But I’m glad you’re here now is what I told her. And she was very happy. End of session. Yeah.
But essentially, they would just do, back cracking stuff, e stim, soft tissue work, leave. That was it. Just and get out of the clinic for 3 years. And that’s a story we hear a lot. Yeah.
Yeah. And I was like, oh, well, that’s why I have back pain for 3 years. Because that’s only one part of the equation. Not actually treating it. Yeah.
If Yeah. Do we even really I mean, we yes. It feels good. I get it. It’s more of a short term relief, manual therapy, all that stuff.
Hands on stuff. Patients love it. I’m more than happy to do it. Am I gonna do it for a whole session? No.
They need active therapy. Right? Which is reinforcing their their lifestyle habits, empowering the patient to do stuff on their own, which is what a medical professional should be doing instead of, like, being, no, you have to come here and get adjusted every week or whatever. Yeah. Insert whatever flashy treatment you want.
Yeah. So the my first session with her today was, again, a lot of talking about being more active with her treatment, less hands on stuff, a lot of lifestyle modifications to, a lot of talking. Yeah. And instead of me doing stuff to the patient, it was us working as a team. And to me, that is what That’s how it should be.
Right. It’s what health care is. Instead of, like, oh, you know, fix me with a pill or a crack or something. You know? And, but yeah.
But she’s doing she’ll do great. And like you said, yeah, she’s had that pain for a long time. It’s hard to rewire the nervous system. It takes a little bit longer to desensitize all that, you know, pain science stuff that I’ll do another episode on probably. So, but so I told her, yeah.
Like, it’s not gonna be fixed in one session. But that’s okay, you know. Your nervous system is very malleable too. It might take a little bit longer, but we can relearn things and unlearn your pain. Lot of education.
Lot of education, but I love doing it. It’s fun. Wait. Do you have favorite, like, area to treat? Like, there you go.
I love back pain. Really? Yeah. Well, that’s good. Back pain.
Yeah. Yeah. I don’t I mean, it’s so, like you said, biopsychosocial too. And well, any pain is really, but, like, back pain for some reason Yeah. Is some people For sure the most.
As you know, you know, I’m sure we’ve talked about this or you’ve seen this on social media, like, you know, MRIs, x rays doesn’t always correlate to pain. Right? So, like, I’ve had patients that they get MRI, nothing’s there, but they have crazy pain. Or vice versa. Yes.
Maybe they have, like, little pain, but they get MRI, and it’s like a huge disc bulge or something. And and it magnifies their pain. They start getting scared and Yeah. You know, all of this. Like, don’t move as much.
And Yes. And then that’s a whole another thing to kinda relearn. But, I love back pain. Well, I don’t love it. But I love treating it Yes.
Is what we mean. Yes. Because the age range I mean, everybody gets back pain. Yeah. Everyone.
I forgot who said it. One of my instructors said it’s the common cold of musculoskeletal disorders. That’s a good one. I like that. Thing.
Right? And I’ve seen, like, 12 year olds with back pain to, like, the, you know, 6 year old. The the rage is so is so big. Everybody gets it. That’s the most the thing I treat the most, honestly, is just back pain.
Yeah. Sciatica type stuff. Yeah. So I love that. Back pain.
Knee pain? I got a lot of ACL still. It’s a long road for them, but, I like treating the more athletic population in my practice. That’s more like sports PT. Mhmm.
So they’re always fun to work with, like, younger athletic, population. So I would say I love back pain and knee pain. Okay. My least favorite is probably probably foot and ankle. I don’t mind either.
But I don’t know. It’s just kinda the lower you go, it’s like, I don’t really like the cheating old body parts. But neck pain, I don’t mind. Shoulder pain is fine too. Back pain is is cool.
Knee pain is fine. We’re thinking about elbow. The elbow pain. Oh, yeah. I got some elbow people yesterday.
I don’t mind it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you get a lot of those?
Honestly, no. No? You really don’t. I have not treated that many, like, elbow diagnosis. Golfer’s elbow.
Yeah. If anything, like, lateral alveculitis. But Yep. Yep. That’s really it.
Yeah. Your dream scenario is also, like, having your own thing, your own cash practice in Yeah. Houston? Maybe Houston. Maybe Houston.
Right right now, it’s at the top of the list. Mhmm. But, yes, definitely having my own, yeah, down the line. What structure do you see for it? Like, what populations do you wanna treat?
What what’s your vision for it? Yeah. I go back and forth, I guess, with the vision, because I also love the interdisciplinary, like, approach. Mhmm. So I guess it like, in a dream world, I would love to have a business that had, like, PT, dietetics, nutrition, like, a a DO or more like, naturopathic dot medicine doctor.
Yep. And then, like, yoga classes, flies, like workout classes, and, like, group fitness classes. And, like, cafe. Okay. Yeah.
Sure. Yeah. Cafe. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, I have With, like, actually good foods and these juices that Yeah. Yeah. I have a similar vision. I wanna make it more like a sports performance type thing, like, the rehab, side of things, strength and conditioning, and then nutrition, dietetics, you know, like a maybe some sort of kitchen, all under one roof, for for athletes. I love combat athletes.
So, like, fighters, boxers Gotcha. Muay Thai people, jujitsu people. Gotcha. Nice. Maybe for them.
But Yeah. Anybody in the sports world, I love treating. So That’s fair. Similar visions. Yeah.
I want all in one one area for for patients. That’d be super cool for me. Yeah. Let’s talk about, like so doctors. Right?
You mentioned that you’re not a medical doctor. Right? So what do you think about us calling ourselves doctors? People are like, oh, well, are you not a real doctor maybe. Right?
Or what kind of doctor are you? Yes. What do you think about that? I think that anyone who has their doctorate should be able to call themselves doctor in that profession. That’s it.
Yeah. We’re doctors of physical therapy. Yeah. That’s our area of being of doctors and Yeah. And PT.
I also say with the doctors of movement and exercise Yes. Because nobody else is. Yes. You know? That’s For sure.
Yeah. I would say movement specialist too sometimes. Yeah. Doctor movement. Fits under that umbrella.
So we’re well versed in both of those things. Yes. So we shouldn’t be shy, PT students, listening to this, about calling ourselves doctors because we are very well versed in our area of this specific medical field, which is Yeah. You know, movement, exercise. I mean, no other medical profession gets No.
Knowledge and education that we get and can treat the things we treat. Like, there’s yeah. And I think we should be getting more attention because people are going more towards the holistic side of of health care. Yeah. Instead of, you know, resorting to to pills, prescription stuff, surgeries, unnecessary surgeries.
Where the gap in between that? Like, someone has back pain, and then they jump to pills or surgery. Yeah. I still get the odd patient that’s, like, the their primary care told them, like, oh, go see this surgeon or instead of trying PT first, they refer them do that. Yeah.
Where we should be the buffer in between them. If we see red flags, like you said Yeah. Where we feel they need, or we know they need some sort of imaging, like MRI, an x-ray, whatever, we’ll send them. We’ll refer them. And If it’s not adding up, then it’s out of our scope, probably.
You I know specialists in the area that are surgeons that I could text and be, like, hey, take this person. They’re not presenting, in a way that I can help right now, that you probably need to see them. Yeah. But if it’s, you know, back pain with no red flags, we’ll take care of it. Yeah.
Without pills, without, you know, anything drastic. Right? And I think patients and people these days appreciate that. What they don’t appreciate sometimes is, like you said, the timeline because it does take work to get out of pain. It is a lot of effort.
And and also, I think the perception with, like, with medical doctors, like, they try to tell people, like, oh, surgery is gonna fix this. You’re gonna be totally fine right after. Or, like, this medication is gonna fix you. Yeah. And so people then automatically just want that, like, instant gratification, easy fix.
Yep. And it’s like, it doesn’t work like that. Nope. Nothing in life works like that. So you shouldn’t expect those results.
Anything in life worth having, it takes some work. Yeah. Especially getting out of pain. And I always say physical therapy is just like any therapy. It’s a process.
Mhmm. We have to go through it. There’s ups and downs. Yeah. And that’s okay.
You know? But, you know, you’d be surprised. Some patients just respond right away too. Yes. For sure.
I had somebody get better, like, in 2 weeks from ankle pain. And it’s like, oh, okay. You’re fine. Here’s your exercises. Yeah.
Check-in with me. That’s fine. But, most of the time, yeah. I mean, pain is up and down for people, and we’re there to guide them through it. Mhmm.
But misconceptions about PT. Like, we talked about us being called personal trainers Yeah. Or shots therapist. What other misconceptions are there about us? I think the biggest thing I see is that people don’t know that we treat certain things.
Mhmm. Like, yeah, like I said, I think a lot of people just assume it’s, like, for back pain or if you’re having surgery or even, like yeah. Like, prehab is a whole another another thing. But yeah. But, yeah, people don’t know that we’re doctors.
Right. I have our doctorate Mhmm. Misconception. Do you go by doctor Melanie? In the clinic?
In the clinic? In the clinic, no. No? Mm-mm. You should.
Yeah. I guess I’ve thought about it, but, like, I don’t know. I’ve never seen any well, some patients, if they know, they’ll say doctor. Right. But I don’t, like, introduce myself as, like, doctor Melanie Ceceres.
But, like, if they know, then There’s no reason not to either. I’m saying That’s fair. But just because no one else is doing it, I mean Did you? At your house, though. Now.
A lot more. And maybe you’re still yeah. Like well, I did. I think my second year started too a little bit. Okay.
Because one of my mentors at that clinic would always tell me the same thing. He’s like, don’t be shy about it. Like, leave your doctorate. Say, hey, I’m doctor Jerry. I’m doctor whatever.
Yeah. That’s a good point. I’m gonna start doing that now. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I’m gonna do it. I do it now. I don’t, like, obviously, like, say, like, hey. I’m the doctor here.
I’m just like, yeah. You know, if I email them, I put doctor Gerry. For sure. I’ll always do that. I’m just myself at first that way too.
Yeah. But they don’t have to call me that. I don’t really care. You know, I’m still just I’m Gerry, your physical therapist. So Yeah.
Other misconceptions about us? Yes. What do you what do you I’m trying to think. Well, I think the big ones, like I said, is well, I guess these are more pet peeves. Like, people just think we massage people.
Oh my gosh. Yeah. Man, what’s like when you do do manual on people or soft tissue stuff, like, how long do you do it for? Like, I go 10, 15 minutes max. Yeah.
For sure. Same. I am not a manual based therapist. Like, manual, I will only do for very certain things. Not everyone gets manual, and I don’t think everybody needs manual.
So yeah. Completely agree. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve treated patients, like, I mean, barely touching them half the time.
Like, today, the evaluation today, I’m like, I didn’t even real I mean, I palpated some stuff, looked around, but it was mostly, man, yeah, 45 minutes of talking and going through some motions that she never learned before. Mhmm. Yeah. Like, foundational things. Yeah.
Yeah. Movement based found foundational things that people should know. Yeah. What else? Misconceptions.
Misconceptions. Oh, I don’t know. I feel like we said everything that comes to my mind. Yeah. Yeah.
Definitely, we’re not massage therapists. No. If anything, we’re veering our weight to Yes. Towards more active treatment. Definitely.
Do you do you use e stim or TENS? No. Okay. I don’t have it. Yeah.
Absolutely not. Ultrasound? Oh my god. Absolutely not. No.
I barely even see that in clinics anymore Right. Yeah. Which is great because for what? For what? Yeah.
That’s it. Yeah. For what? I don’t have that. I don’t have ultrasound.
I don’t have east well, I use e stim with dry needling sometimes. Okay. Well, shit. Sometimes, but That’s fair. I don’t know.
Yeah. That makes that makes more sense. The cool thing about needling is it’s such a quick treatment. Yeah. It’s like 5, 10 well, I do for 2 minutes sometimes.
Like, you just needle the the sensitized or increased tone muscle, and then it it kinda just, like, relaxes after the needling. Yeah. So you must do that a lot then for your low back pain? For back pain, I do it. I did it on someone’s, adductors today.
Okay. Someone’s knee. Yeah. I did some cervical stuff. Okay.
Like, suboccipitals. Yeah. I don’t get a lot of headaches. I did have one this week. Oh, TMJ.
Okay. Yes. I don’t do a lot of TMJ, but I’m starting to like it now. Needle like masseter? Lateral pterygoid Okay.
Is the main one. Okay. I’ve from the class that I took Gotcha. And other people that have mentored me told me that lateral pterygoid Yeah. And then masseter are the main ones I would say.
The rest are kinda just for show. Yeah. It does look cool when everybody’s just all needled up and pin cushioned. You put on Instagram and social media and people love it. But these 3 are I mean, they’re very close to something like magic that I’ve seen because the clicking kinda goes away right away.
Because it’s such a spasmed area. Uh-huh. The needling just kinda just releases it. Yeah. And I’m like, woah.
That’s kinda cool. Mhmm. But also get to reinforce it with exercises for the long term relief. Right? I mean, it’s all short term, but reinforcing it with exercises and stretches Yeah.
Is the main benefit. Do you do any cupping? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Cupping’s fine too. I like cupping. I do cupping more. Well, because I’m not trying to needle. Yeah.
Like, I don’t have my certification, so I do cupping Mhmm. If clinics have it. But yeah. What do you cup the most? I’ve done it to the neck.
I’ve done it to low back. I actually I did it to one of my patients that had she had, like, a lot of tone and tension here and was getting, like, ulnar nerve distribution pain, and it, like, helped her the most out of anything that I’ve done for that. What else have I done it to? IT band, like, lateral knee pain. Yeah.
Yeah. That’s tough for people. Yeah. Mhmm. Rotator posterior rotator cuff, upper trap.
Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Cupping, I have 2 patients that are not good with needles, so I’ll just cup their rest. And they’re like, no.
No. Needles for me. I’m like, yeah. It’s fine. Just I’ll just cup it.
Few minutes left. I wanted to throw out, like, what’s your what’s a good wellness tip that somebody can implement now Oh. In their life? Yes. Yeah.
Okay. Well, movement, obviously Yes. Is important. Mhmm. But outside of movement, in terms of diet and nutrition is so important for our bodies, for tissue healing, for inflammation, for so many things.
And so I always say 5 colors a day. So, like, your place in your meals should always have, like, a variety of whole food colors Yep. Not not the dyes, but colors, because every color is associated with different, like, nutrients and vitamins and minerals and, like, phytochemicals and stuff. So eat your colors. Colors?
K. I am a huge advocate of, like, sauna and cryotherapy. Both of them. For sure. If you have access to that for sauna, then great.
For cryotherapy, if you don’t have access to the cold plunges or chambers, cold showers Yep. Ice dunking your face and cold water. Morning. Yes. I like to you could text you that or something.
Yeah. I love doing that. Yes. Yeah. Mhmm.
What other wellness things? I mean, sleep is always That was gonna be mine. Crucial. I had 3 patients today tell me that I always ask them, like, hey. Did you sleep well last night?
They would most of the time, they say no. So I’m like, you know, try to get on a consistent sleep schedule. Sleep is vitally important Yes. For recovery, everything. I mean, honestly, anything, really.
Yeah. I mean, if you’re consistently just getting 5 hours of sleep, like, you’re missing out on so much recovery for your body, for your brain, for your, like, nervous system. Yeah. I would die. I would love too old for that.
I love a good 9 hours. Like, that’s not optimal. 9 hours. Yeah. But, like, during the week, I don’t always get that.
5 would kill me. Yeah. Oh my god. Terrible. But, I also like, do you ever talk to your patient about supplements?
Sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. Mhmm. Yeah.
I’ve definitely had a lot of magnesium talks with my patients for, like, sleep and muscle cramps. Sure. Yep. But there’s so many different types of magnesium supplements, so you can We’ll save that for the next time you’re in town, which, yeah, we’ll talk about that. Anything else you wanna plug?
Your podcast? Yes. So my podcast is called the Physio Diaries. So it is me and Alice who is external travel physical therapist, and it’s pretty much just, like, the inside scoop into the health care and wellness industry. So PT, we’ve had ortho surgeon on chiropractor, nurse.
Like, we’re trying to tap into all the fields and Why not? As we should. Yeah. Social media? Yes.
My social media is doctor, doctor Melanie Zaziras, and then my podcast is the Physio Diaries podcast. TikTok, Instagram, podcast also on YouTube, Spotify, Apple. Yeah. Awesome. Thanks for the crossover podcast.
Yeah. This is a cool one. My Instagram is a at apt, doctor g. If you have any questions on anything pain related, just, you know, message me on there. Thanks for the 100 subscribers on YouTube.
I really appreciate it. And we’ll catch you guys in the next one. Thank you. Peace.
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