EPISODE · May 28, 2026 · 55 MIN
The Mental Battle of Chronic Injury & Making a Comeback
from Young Blood - Men’s Mental Health · host Cal MacPherson
How many of us have had our sporting aspirations crushed by injuries? Not to mention the chronic aches and pains that can creep in, take hold and become part of who we are as we age into our ripe old 30s and 40s - on the fast track to our inevitable decline...BUT I've got some good news, my guest today says it doesn't have to be that way...Suffering from osteitis pubis from his mid-teens, James's ability to play footy, and the identity that came with it, was slowly stripped away.After being told by a specialist that his body was “cooked” in his twenties, and he may as well stop playing, the depression that had been building under the surface came crashing forward.Now at 35 he's making a comeback to playing footy and running his own physio practice, working to free people from the cycle of pain and defeat, with the ethos that no one's too far gone to turn it around.This is James Brown...
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How many of us have had our sporting aspirations crushed by injuries? Not to mention the chronic aches and pains that can creep in, take hold and become part of who we are as we age into our ripe old 30s and 40s - on the fast track to our inevitable decline...BUT I've got some good news, my guest today says it doesn't have to be that way...Suffering from osteitis pubis from his mid-teens, James's ability to play footy, and the identity that came with it, was slowly stripped away.After being told by a specialist that his body was “cooked” in his twenties, and he may as well stop playing, the depression that had been building under the surface came crashing forward.Now at 35 he's making a comeback to playing footy and running his own physio practice, working to free people from the cycle of pain and defeat, with the ethos that no one's too far gone to turn it around.This is James Brown...
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