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Uncut : Avoid Surgery & Live Well
The go-to podcast for how to maximize not only the "years in your life", but the "life in your years." This podcast is dedicated to helping you live life today, on your terms, and for many many years to come. Learn about treatments and habits that are changing the healthcare industry, and how you can take control to improve your chances of avoiding orthopedic surgery, or relying on painkillers in your lifetime.
Uncut : Avoid Surgery & Live Well
Back Pain with Neuromechanics PhD Jo Armour Smith.mp3
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Dr. Tom Padilla, PT, DPT, CSCS
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Season 1
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Episode 21
Dr. Jo Armour Smith is one of the nation’s top researchers in back pain, biomechanics, and neuroscience. She’s helped author over 30 published research articles and lead the research for 15 of them.
When I first met her, she was preparing her dissertation on back pain, and a little muscle called the “multifidus,” a muscle that is underactive in over 85% of people with chronic back pain, and as my own practice would suggest, is commonly underactive in individuals with a variety of bodily pain including shoulders, hips, knees, and neck.