Solving the Puzzle of Acute and Chronic Pain

On episode 56 of the Science & Chill podcast, Dr. Rick Olderman describes his paradigm for pain management.

Greetings!

This week, I released episode 56 of the Science & Chill podcast, where I interview Dr. Rick Olderman.

Rick is a sports and orthopedic physical therapist with more than 25 years’ experience that specializes in helping people with chronic pain experience a pain-free life.

Paid subscribers can find the video version of this podcast at the end of this email. I would highly recommend watching the video, since throughout our conversation, Rick demonstrates many of the concepts he’s explaining, and even has me perform some of the movements and corrective exercises as they’re discussed.

Rick has written the popular Fixing You® series of books -- found on Amazon.com -- to help people with chronic pain or injuries. More recently, Rick has created downloadable video home programs to help people solve pain from head to toe. These programs include his pioneering approach that has helped solve hundreds of cases of chronic pain at his clinic for the last 10 years.

Rick has a new book, Solving the Pain Puzzle, coming out in 2023 and has posted a few chapters from that book on his website, www.rickolderman.com, where people can also pre-order his book and find his home programs as well as other free stuff.

Rick is one of the top professionals in the U.S. when it comes to understanding recurring injuries and chronic musculoskeletal pain. He wants to enhance quality of life by helping people fix their pain once and for all.

In this episode, Rick and I talk about a variety of pain-related topics including the causes of acute and chronic pain, why current treatments for pain aren’t effective, and tools and exercises that you can use in your everyday life and in work to minimize pain. At one point in the podcast, Rick and I go on a bit of a tangent where he helps me to identify some of the sources of my hamstring pain and also provides some strategies for me to help get over my hamstring pain and injury. Even if you’re not suffering from hamstring pain, I think Rick’s insight into my specific injury can be applied broadly to all types of sports- or life-related injuries.

We also talk about Rick’s current approach to addressing patients' pain — which involves a philosophy that he’s developed over the past several years using information from a variety of sources in the field of physical therapy. I found Rick’s approach to be novel, intuitive but also based in anatomy, physiology, and the science of pain.

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