Dr. JJ Thomas: Pain Is an Alarm. Why Your Injury Keeps Coming Back and How To Fix It

About this episode

When you have musculoskeletal pain, the natural instinct is to try and treat it directly. But the cause of that pain often starts somewhere else in the body. I learned that from this week's guest, Dr. JJ Thomas, who is my physical therapist and good friend. She was my patient first, and now we are each other's patients. She has practiced physical therapy for more than 25 years and has worked with the Philadelphia 76ers, the Philadelphia Eagles, and athletes from the UFC and US Olympic programs. What you'll learn in this episode: • Why a chronic tendon injury can come right back, even after eccentric loading or PRP • Whether a frozen shoulder in menopause is a hormone problem, and one of the first movements Dr. Thomas checks • Why she works lying on her stomach, and the 10-minute band routine she wrote for an eight-hour desk day • Why sitting up taller won't fix your posture, and what poor posture tells her about your body • Why she gives patients shoulder blade exercises for their pelvic floor • How much a standard squat does for your posterior chain, and the position she wants you in more often • Why she believes “overuse” injuries are often underuse injuries, and how that ch