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The Thinking Practitioner — 173 episodes
173: Recognizing & Touching Trauma (with Dr. Peter Levine) Listener Favorite
172: Lateral Hip Pain: Stop Blaming the Bursa (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)
171: The Most Skipped Step in Assessment and Why It Matters Most (with Whitney Lowe)
170: Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos, Fascia, and Pain (with Tina Wang) Listener Favorite
169: Exploring Anterior Neck Work (with Walt Fritz)
168: Back Pain, Stiffness & Manual Therapy (with Stuart McGill) Listener Favorite
167: Cupping & the Nervous System (with Joi Edwards)
166: Does Research Support What We Do? (with Bodhi Haraldsson)
165: Multi-State Massage License: Coming Soon? (with Debra Persinger)
164: Dizziness Roundtable (with Ruth Werner, Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
163: A Master in Plain Sight (with Art Riggs)
162: AI in Massage: Thinking Partner, Threat, or Crutch? (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)
161: Science, Skepticism, & Keeping Heart (with Paul Ingraham)
160: 5 Years & Half a Million Downloads: Your Favorite Episodes & Ours (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
159: Can You Really Palpate the Psoas? (with Christopher DaPrato)
158: Is Your Work Valuable? (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
157: What Happens When the Body Lets Go? (with Werner Klingler)
156: Lessons from 50 Years (with Benny Vaughn)
155: The Value of Disgust: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Boundaries & Connection (with Todd Hargrove)
154: Sacroiliac Joints: The Next Level (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe) Listener Favorite!
153: Conversations from the 7th Fascial Research Congress (with Robert Schleip, Gil Hedley, & more)
152. Does Pressure Matter? What the Research Says (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
151: Finding Balance in an Out-of-Balance World (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
150: Listener Favorite: Fascia, Fitness, and Feeling (with Robert Schleip)
149: Bodywork through the Polyvagal Lens (with Stephen Porges)
148: The Vagus Nerve: Buzzword or Biology? (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
147: Palpating Fibrosis, Easing Inflammation (with Geoffrey Bove & Holly McMillan)
146: Inflammation, Touch, & the Grieving Body (with Mary-Frances O’Connor)
145: Can Discs Heal? (with Stuart McGill)
144: Fascia, Emotion, Inflammation, & Attention (with Robert Schleip)
143: Palliative Massage is for Everyone (with Cal Cates)
142: Fascia and the Vagus Nerve (with Fabiana Silva)
141: Massage in Integrative Healthcare (with Dale Healey)
140: Embodied Attention: Contact Improvisation and Bodywork (with Nita Little)
139: Scoliosis: Lessons for Every Back (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
138: Carpal Tunnel Crash Course (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)
137: Remembering Erik Dalton (with Tom Myers, Art Riggs, & more)
136: Season 5 Highlights (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
135: The Neuroscience of Bodywork (with Mark Olson)
134: How Bodywork Changed Our Lives (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)
133: ScarWork: Origins and Legacy (with Sharon Wheeler & Wojtek Cackowski)
132: Bodywork and Grief (with Ronna Moore)
131: Mindfulness, Hands-On Therapy, and Pain (with Bronnie Lennox Thompson)
130: The Body of Grief (with JS Park)
129: Is Your Touch Aging Out? (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
128: Tendon Pain Update (with Jill Cook)
127: Low Back Pain Update (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)
126: Fascia: A Deep Dive (with Dr. Antonio Stecco, Rebroadcast)
125: Moving with Grief (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
124: Movement Logic (with Laurel Beversdorf & Sarah Court)
123: Getting Over Over-Pronation: Ankle & Foot Function (Rebroadcast)
122: Performing Arts Massage (with Christian Green)
121: Analyzing Manual Therapy (with Whitney Lowe)
120: Kinesiology, Pain Management, & Massage (with Justin Solace)
119: The Ankle's Most Sensitive Fascia (with Rachelle Clauson & Nicole Trombley)
118: Massage Down Under (with Paula Nutting)
117: Ankle Issues Demystified (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)
116: Anatomy Trains Updated (with Tom Myers)
115: New Evidence: Can Massage Spread Cancer? (with Cathy Ryan & Erika Slocum)
114: Movement Optimism (with Greg Lehman)
113: What Did Esalen Ever Do for Massage? (with Peggy & Lucia Horan)
112: The San Diego Pain Summit (with Rajam Roose)
111. How Bodyworkers Can Explain Pain (with Lorimer Moseley)
110: Hands-On the Nerves (with Gil Hedley)
109: Season 4 Highlights: Insights and Legacies
108: Trauma & Bodywork (with Peter Levine)
107: Knee Deep: Understanding Baker’s Cysts (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)
106: The Massage Therapy Foundation (with Adrienne Asta)
105: Chronic Cough: the Prequel (with Walt Fritz and Ruth Werner)
104: The Many (Cervical) Facets of Neck Pain (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
103: Where the Profession Is Now (with Les Sweeney)
102: Lessons Learned (with Susan Salvo)
101: Interprofessional Communication (with Lane Blondheim)
100: Chronic Symptoms & Other Mysteries (with Ruth Werner & Til Luchau)
99: Wait, What? Fascial Stiffness & Pain (with Robert Schleip)
98: Working in Professional Sports (with Brian Glotzbach)
97: Back At It: Back Pain Revisited (with Stuart McGill)
96: Curious Souls (with Aaron Alexander & Sue Hitzmann)
95: Learning to Learn (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
94: Contact Improvisation and Bodywork (with Alicia Grayson)
93: Evidence-Informed Education (with Patti Shank)
92: The Art of a Good Question (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)
91: Employer Blues (with Drew Freedman & Diane Matkowski)
90: Turning Down the Volume on Back Pain (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)
89: Adventure Education (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
88: What is Frequency Specific Microcurrent (with Shannon Goossen)
87: Shared Decision-Making (with Walt Fritz)
86: Body by Breath (with Jill Miller)
85: Collateral Damage: Acute Knee Injuries (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
84: Working With Veterans (with Nicole Miller)
83: Business, Success, and Change (with Allissa Haines)
82: Season 3 Highlights - Best of the Thinking Practitioner
81: Fascia, Length-Change, and Language (with John Sharkey)
80. What We Might Learn From Sex (with Betty Martin)
79: Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos, Fascia, and Pain (with Tina Wang)
78: More Carrots, or More Sticks? The Continuing Education Conundrum
77: The Future of the Profession (with Sandy Fritz)
76: Fascia Research Congress Highlights (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)
75: Secret Shopper CE Review (bonus episode, with Hands at the Table podcast)
74: Sacroiliac Joints: The Next Level (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
73: Long Term Lyme Disease: What Helps? (with Ruth Werner)
72: Intimacy, Sex & Massage: Strange Bedfellows? (with Cal Cates)
71: Fascia & Pain: What We Know (with Helene Langevin)
70: Stretching: Would Everyone Just Relax? (with Jules Mitchell)
69: Back Pain, Stiffness & Fascia (with Stuart McGill)
68: Working with Sciatic Pain (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)
67: Aging Gracefully, Breathing Well, and Long COVID Recovery (with Jan Sultan)
66: Beyond ”It Depends:” Oncology Massage (with Janet Penny, Rebecca Sturgeon, and Loretta Luchau)
65: Women Leaders in Massage Therapy (with CG Funk, Ruth Werner, and Irene Diamond)
64: The Handspring Story (with Andrew Stevenson and Mary Law)
63: Turnabout is Fair Play: Our Favorite Perspective Reversals
62: Educational Innovations (with Anne Williams and Eric Brown)
61: Massage Therapy Research (with Niki Munk)
60: Physical Therapy Assisting and Massage (with Matt Gavzy)
59: What Influenced You? (with Whitney Lowe & Til Luchau)
58: Outside the Box (with Judith Aston)
57: A Fine Irish Visit (with Aubrey Gowing)
56: Working with Rib Issues
55: What Is Success? (with Diane Matkowski)
54: Season Two Highlights - Best of the Thinking Practitioner Podcast
53: Fascia: A Deep Dive (with Dr. Antonio Stecco)
52: Orthopedic Special Tests (with Whitney Lowe)
51: Neuroinflammation (with Todd Hargrove)
50: A View Across The Border (with Jamie Johnston & Eric Purves)
49: Interoception Is The Key, Like It Or Not (with Til Luchau)
48: Psoas Work: Is it Safe? Is it Necessary? (Hip Jam rebroadcast)
47: Getting Over Over-Pronation (Ankle & Foot Function)
46: To ITB, or Not To ITB? (Iliotibial Band Controversies, Conditions, and Approaches)
45: Fascia in Sport & Movement (with Robert Schleip)
44: Table Lessons (with Doug Nelson)
43: Trauma, MDMA Psychotherapy, and the Body (with Marcela Ot'alora G.)
42: Scars and Scar Tissue (with Cathy Ryan)
41: Going For It: The Massage Mentor (with Diane Matkowski)
40: How To (Not) Fix It (with Cal Cates)
39: Are You Thinking Critically? (with Ruth Werner)
38: Frozen Shoulder & Adhesive Capsulitis: Updating our Approach
37: Shoulder Pain, Impingement, & Rotator Cuff Issues: The Most Common of Problems
36: Research and Education (with Robin Anderson)
35: Resources That Inspire Our Learning
34: Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: What You Didn’t Know
33: Dealing With Adversity (with Drew Freedman)
32: Aging Well (with Art Riggs)
31: Headaches of Another Kind: Cervicogenic Headaches
30: Excuses, Excuses: Our Favorite Reasons Not To ________
29: Season 1 Retrospective - Best of the Thinking Practitioner
28: Advanced Credentialing and Massage as Healthcare
27: The Little Man In The Brain: The Sensory Homunculus
26: Zoga: Movement for Manual Therapists (with Wojtek Cackowski)
25: Psoas Work: Is it Safe? Is it Necessary?
24: Plantar Foot Pain Crash Course
23: Do Expectations Shape Results? (with Mark Bishop)
22: Fascia, Fuzz and Furor (with Gil Hedley)
21: My Aching (Upper) Back: Thoracic Spine Pain
20: A Pain in the Neck: Cervical Challenges and Strategies
19: What About Risk?
18: Project COPE (with Ann Blair Kennedy and Kemi Balogun)
17: Who Charts Our Path?
16: Black Lives Matter (with Benny Vaughn)
15: Talking to Fascia, Changing the Brain, 20 Years Later (with Robert Schleip)
14: Do We Keep Doing This?
13: Inflammation: Hands-On
12: The Cytokine Storm of COVID-19
11: Stretching the Tissues, or the Truth?
10: When Does The Tissue Matter?
09: Descending Modulation in Manual Therapy
08: Key Challenges Facing Our Field, Part 2
07: Scoliosis and Manual Therapy
06: Tendons and Tendinopathies
05: Documentation and Electronic Health Records (with Diana Thompson)
04: Key Challenges Facing Our Field, Part 1
03: Sacroiliac Joint Pain: Causes, Controversies, and Considerations
02: The Back Story, Part 2
01: The Back Story, Part 1