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The Thinking Practitioner — 173 episodes

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173: Recognizing & Touching Trauma (with Dr. Peter Levine) Listener Favorite

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172: Lateral Hip Pain: Stop Blaming the Bursa (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)

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171: The Most Skipped Step in Assessment and Why It Matters Most (with Whitney Lowe)

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170: Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos, Fascia, and Pain (with Tina Wang) Listener Favorite

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169: Exploring Anterior Neck Work (with Walt Fritz)

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168: Back Pain, Stiffness & Manual Therapy (with Stuart McGill) Listener Favorite

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167: Cupping & the Nervous System (with Joi Edwards)

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166: Does Research Support What We Do? (with Bodhi Haraldsson)

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165: Multi-State Massage License: Coming Soon? (with Debra Persinger)

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164: Dizziness Roundtable (with Ruth Werner, Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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163: A Master in Plain Sight (with Art Riggs)

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162: AI in Massage: Thinking Partner, Threat, or Crutch? (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)

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161: Science, Skepticism, & Keeping Heart (with Paul Ingraham)

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160: 5 Years & Half a Million Downloads: Your Favorite Episodes & Ours (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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159: Can You Really Palpate the Psoas? (with Christopher DaPrato)

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158: Is Your Work Valuable? (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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157: What Happens When the Body Lets Go? (with Werner Klingler)

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156: Lessons from 50 Years (with Benny Vaughn)

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155: The Value of Disgust: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Boundaries & Connection (with Todd Hargrove)

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154: Sacroiliac Joints: The Next Level (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe) Listener Favorite!

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153: Conversations from the 7th Fascial Research Congress (with Robert Schleip, Gil Hedley, & more)

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152. Does Pressure Matter? What the Research Says (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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151: Finding Balance in an Out-of-Balance World (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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150: Listener Favorite: Fascia, Fitness, and Feeling (with Robert Schleip)

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149: Bodywork through the Polyvagal Lens (with Stephen Porges)

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148: The Vagus Nerve: Buzzword or Biology? (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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147: Palpating Fibrosis, Easing Inflammation (with Geoffrey Bove & Holly McMillan)

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146: Inflammation, Touch, & the Grieving Body (with Mary-Frances O’Connor)

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145: Can Discs Heal? (with Stuart McGill)

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144: Fascia, Emotion, Inflammation, & Attention (with Robert Schleip)

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143: Palliative Massage is for Everyone (with Cal Cates)

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142: Fascia and the Vagus Nerve (with Fabiana Silva)

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141: Massage in Integrative Healthcare (with Dale Healey)

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140: Embodied Attention: Contact Improvisation and Bodywork (with Nita Little)

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139: Scoliosis: Lessons for Every Back (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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138: Carpal Tunnel Crash Course (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)

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137: Remembering Erik Dalton (with Tom Myers, Art Riggs, & more)

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136: Season 5 Highlights (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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135: The Neuroscience of Bodywork (with Mark Olson)

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134: How Bodywork Changed Our Lives (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)

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133: ScarWork: Origins and Legacy (with Sharon Wheeler & Wojtek Cackowski)

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132: Bodywork and Grief (with Ronna Moore)

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131: Mindfulness, Hands-On Therapy, and Pain (with Bronnie Lennox Thompson)

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130: The Body of Grief (with JS Park)

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129: Is Your Touch Aging Out? (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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128: Tendon Pain Update (with Jill Cook)

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127: Low Back Pain Update (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)

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126: Fascia: A Deep Dive (with Dr. Antonio Stecco, Rebroadcast)

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125: Moving with Grief (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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124: Movement Logic (with Laurel Beversdorf & Sarah Court)

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123: Getting Over Over-Pronation: Ankle & Foot Function (Rebroadcast)

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122: Performing Arts Massage (with Christian Green)

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121: Analyzing Manual Therapy (with Whitney Lowe)

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120: Kinesiology, Pain Management, & Massage (with Justin Solace)

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119: The Ankle's Most Sensitive Fascia (with Rachelle Clauson & Nicole Trombley)

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118: Massage Down Under (with Paula Nutting)

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117: Ankle Issues Demystified (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)

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116: Anatomy Trains Updated (with Tom Myers)

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115: New Evidence: Can Massage Spread Cancer? (with Cathy Ryan & Erika Slocum)

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114: Movement Optimism (with Greg Lehman)

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113: What Did Esalen Ever Do for Massage? (with Peggy & Lucia Horan)

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112: The San Diego Pain Summit (with Rajam Roose)

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111. How Bodyworkers Can Explain Pain (with Lorimer Moseley)

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110: Hands-On the Nerves (with Gil Hedley)

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109: Season 4 Highlights: Insights and Legacies

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108: Trauma & Bodywork (with Peter Levine)

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107: Knee Deep: Understanding Baker’s Cysts (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)

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106: The Massage Therapy Foundation (with Adrienne Asta)

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105: Chronic Cough: the Prequel (with Walt Fritz and Ruth Werner)

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104: The Many (Cervical) Facets of Neck Pain (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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103: Where the Profession Is Now (with Les Sweeney)

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102: Lessons Learned (with Susan Salvo)

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101: Interprofessional Communication (with Lane Blondheim)

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100: Chronic Symptoms & Other Mysteries (with Ruth Werner & Til Luchau)

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99: Wait, What? Fascial Stiffness & Pain (with Robert Schleip)

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98: Working in Professional Sports (with Brian Glotzbach)

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97: Back At It: Back Pain Revisited (with Stuart McGill)

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96: Curious Souls (with Aaron Alexander & Sue Hitzmann)

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95: Learning to Learn (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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94: Contact Improvisation and Bodywork (with Alicia Grayson)

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93: Evidence-Informed Education (with Patti Shank)

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92: The Art of a Good Question (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)

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91: Employer Blues (with Drew Freedman & Diane Matkowski)

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90: Turning Down the Volume on Back Pain (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)

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89: Adventure Education (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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88: What is Frequency Specific Microcurrent (with Shannon Goossen)

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87: Shared Decision-Making (with Walt Fritz)

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86: Body by Breath (with Jill Miller)

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85: Collateral Damage: Acute Knee Injuries (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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84: Working With Veterans (with Nicole Miller)

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83: Business, Success, and Change (with Allissa Haines)

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82: Season 3 Highlights - Best of the Thinking Practitioner

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81: Fascia, Length-Change, and Language (with John Sharkey)

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80. What We Might Learn From Sex (with Betty Martin)

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79: Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos, Fascia, and Pain (with Tina Wang)

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78: More Carrots, or More Sticks? The Continuing Education Conundrum

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77: The Future of the Profession (with Sandy Fritz)

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76: Fascia Research Congress Highlights (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)

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75: Secret Shopper CE Review (bonus episode, with Hands at the Table podcast)

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74: Sacroiliac Joints: The Next Level (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

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73: Long Term Lyme Disease: What Helps? (with Ruth Werner)

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72: Intimacy, Sex & Massage: Strange Bedfellows? (with Cal Cates)

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71: Fascia & Pain: What We Know (with Helene Langevin)

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70: Stretching: Would Everyone Just Relax? (with Jules Mitchell)

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69: Back Pain, Stiffness & Fascia (with Stuart McGill)

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68: Working with Sciatic Pain (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)

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67: Aging Gracefully, Breathing Well, and Long COVID Recovery (with Jan Sultan)

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66: Beyond ”It Depends:” Oncology Massage (with Janet Penny, Rebecca Sturgeon, and Loretta Luchau)

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65: Women Leaders in Massage Therapy (with CG Funk, Ruth Werner, and Irene Diamond)

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64: The Handspring Story (with Andrew Stevenson and Mary Law)

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63: Turnabout is Fair Play: Our Favorite Perspective Reversals

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62: Educational Innovations (with Anne Williams and Eric Brown)

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61: Massage Therapy Research (with Niki Munk)

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60: Physical Therapy Assisting and Massage (with Matt Gavzy)

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59: What Influenced You? (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)

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58: Outside the Box (with Judith Aston)

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57: A Fine Irish Visit (with Aubrey Gowing)

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56: Working with Rib Issues

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55: What Is Success? (with Diane Matkowski)

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54: Season Two Highlights - Best of the Thinking Practitioner Podcast

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53: Fascia: A Deep Dive (with Dr. Antonio Stecco)

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52: Orthopedic Special Tests (with Whitney Lowe)

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51: Neuroinflammation (with Todd Hargrove)

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50: A View Across The Border (with Jamie Johnston & Eric Purves)

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49: Interoception Is The Key, Like It Or Not (with Til Luchau)

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48: Psoas Work: Is it Safe? Is it Necessary? (Hip Jam rebroadcast)

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47: Getting Over Over-Pronation (Ankle & Foot Function)

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46: To ITB, or Not To ITB? (Iliotibial Band Controversies, Conditions, and Approaches)

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45: Fascia in Sport & Movement (with Robert Schleip)

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44: Table Lessons (with Doug Nelson)

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43: Trauma, MDMA Psychotherapy, and the Body (with Marcela Ot'alora G.)

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42: Scars and Scar Tissue (with Cathy Ryan)

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41: Going For It: The Massage Mentor (with Diane Matkowski)

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40: How To (Not) Fix It (with Cal Cates)

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39: Are You Thinking Critically? (with Ruth Werner)

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38: Frozen Shoulder & Adhesive Capsulitis: Updating our Approach

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37: Shoulder Pain, Impingement, & Rotator Cuff Issues: The Most Common of Problems

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36: Research and Education (with Robin Anderson)

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35: Resources That Inspire Our Learning

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34: Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: What You Didn’t Know

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33: Dealing With Adversity (with Drew Freedman)

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32: Aging Well (with Art Riggs)

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31: Headaches of Another Kind: Cervicogenic Headaches

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30: Excuses, Excuses: Our Favorite Reasons Not To ________

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29: Season 1 Retrospective - Best of the Thinking Practitioner

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28: Advanced Credentialing and Massage as Healthcare

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27: The Little Man In The Brain: The Sensory Homunculus

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26: Zoga: Movement for Manual Therapists (with Wojtek Cackowski)

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25: Psoas Work: Is it Safe? Is it Necessary?

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24: Plantar Foot Pain Crash Course

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23: Do Expectations Shape Results? (with Mark Bishop)

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22: Fascia, Fuzz and Furor (with Gil Hedley)

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21: My Aching (Upper) Back: Thoracic Spine Pain

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20: A Pain in the Neck: Cervical Challenges and Strategies

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19: What About Risk?

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18: Project COPE (with Ann Blair Kennedy and Kemi Balogun)

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17: Who Charts Our Path?

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16: Black Lives Matter (with Benny Vaughn)

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15: Talking to Fascia, Changing the Brain, 20 Years Later (with Robert Schleip)

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14: Do We Keep Doing This?

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13: Inflammation: Hands-On

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12: The Cytokine Storm of COVID-19

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11: Stretching the Tissues, or the Truth?

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10: When Does The Tissue Matter?

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09: Descending Modulation in Manual Therapy

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08: Key Challenges Facing Our Field, Part 2

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07: Scoliosis and Manual Therapy

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06: Tendons and Tendinopathies

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05: Documentation and Electronic Health Records (with Diana Thompson)

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04: Key Challenges Facing Our Field, Part 1

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03: Sacroiliac Joint Pain: Causes, Controversies, and Considerations

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02: The Back Story, Part 2

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01: The Back Story, Part 1