My guest on this episode is Adam Young, a golf instructor and author of the excellent book The Practice Manual. We discussed Adam’s personal journey in developing a unique task-oriented teaching style. He explained how his early experiences with textbook-....

My guest for this podcast is Greg Lehman. Greg is a physical therapist, chiropractor, and researcher. Our main subject was a new study that found very positive results for Cognitive Functional Therapy (CFT). I thought Greg would be a good guy to ask about ...

Today’s podcast is a 15-minute movement lesson you can do in a chair. It's a novel way to get the pelvis and spine moving, and bring some awareness to how they coordinate to keep you comfortable and balanced. It involves walking the sit bones over the base...

Leigh Egger is a physiotherapist and trainer working as head of performance at Feyenoord Rotterdam, a Dutch professional soccer club. I first became interested in Leigh’s work because he had extensive knowledge about applying the ideas of Frans Bosch to a....

My guest for today’s podcast is Tom Jesson. Tom is a physiotherapist and author of a two excellent books related to nerve root pain: Sciatica: The Clinician’s Guide and Cauda Equina: The MSK Clinician’s Guide. He also writes a newsletter on nerve root pain...

If you are interested in predictive processing, you should definitely listen to this podcast. It’s an interview with Mark Miller, a philosopher and cognitive scientist who studied under John Vervaeke and did his PhD with Andy Clark. I've read a bunch of .....

The podcast today features a 15-minute Feldenkrais-style movement lesson that you can do while sitting in a chair. It's a progression from a couple other sitting lessons which you can find here and here. (You can do the lessons in any order by the way.) .....

Christopher Johnson is a physical therapist, performance coach, international speaker, published researcher, and elite triathlete. I consider Chris to be a world-class source of information about the connection between movement and pain, especially in the....

My guest on the podcast today is John Kiely. John is a senior lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, Institute for Coaching and Performance. I've been reading John’s research for several years now and his papers are always very interesting and ....

For this week’s episode of the podcast I have a 15-minute movement lesson you can do while sitting in a chair. The goal is to release unnecessary tension in the shoulders and neck. Based on the Feldenkrais Method. If you are enjoying these movement lesson....

Joletta Belton writes and speaks about her experience with chronic pain, so that clinicians and researchers can understand the patient perspective. I’ve heard her speak several times at pain conferences in San Diego and Oslo, and each time she had one of t...

Rob Gray is an expert on motor learning, especially as applied to sports. I’ve been following his research for years, as well as his excellent Perception & Action Podcast, which is one of the best sources of online information about skill acquisition for ....

Dr. Tasha Stanton is a physiotherapist and a clinical scientist. After completing her PhD at the University of Sydney, she did post-doctoral work under the mentorship of professor Lorimer Moseley. She now leads her own research group as a senior research f...

In this episode I talked with Kieran O’Sullivan, a senior lecturer at the University of Limerick in Ireland, about his back pain research and his experience as a physical therapist helping people in chronic pain. I have been following Kieran’s research an....

Here’s the second of a series of lessons to help you sit with more comfort. The first focused on flexion/extension movements, this one is more about side bending. You don’t have to do the lessons in order, but they go well together. Let me know what you t....

Today's episode features an interview with Nick Winkleman, the author of the excellent book The Language of Coaching, which gets my highest recommendation for books on the science and practice of developing movement skill. It’s really a great book, and if ...

For today’s podcast I am providing a ten minute Feldenkrais-style movement lesson. The goal is to explore different ways to sit with comfort in a chair, mostly though variable flexing and extending of the spine. Enjoy and let me know what you think. (Cr...

My guest this week is Bronnie Lennox Thompson. Bronnie is an expert on chronic pain and has fibromyalgia. She holds a PhD, has published research, and is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She's also an occupational therapist and ...

Ebonie Rio talks about her research on tendon pain: how they adapt to stress, how they can degenerate, why they hurt, and how to make them feel better.   This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bon...

Sports scientist Israel Halperin has traveled the world competing in and coaching elite level kickboxing and MMA. In this podcast we talk about why athletes perform better when they can choose their exercises, the complexity of assessing fatigue, the use o...