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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1650: How to Know When You Need a Physical Therapist

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with Palak Shah, co-founder and head of clinical services for Luna, a revolutionary at-home physical therapy provider that is disrupting the industry.

  • What is physical therapy and what is its goal? (2:27)
  • Why not every physical therapist (PT) can treat an acute patient. (6:55)
  • Busting the myth that your joints have a shelf life. (8:52)
  • The value of finding insight into your own self. (12:03)
  • How movement is a skill. (13:53)
  • The importance for PTs to empower their patients. (16:15)
  • Are DPTs (Doctor of Physical Therapy) better than PTs? (19:49)
  • How has physical therapy evolved over the years? (26:13)
  • Why do 70% of patients stop their physical therapy before completion? (28:26)
  • What is home-based therapy? (30:51)
  • Will my insurance cover the cost? (34:15)
  • What types of services does Luna provide? (38:16)
  • Luna Physical Therapy, bringing good quality care outside the four walls of a clinic. (39:25)
  • Can you effectively treat someone at home without the fancy equipment? (40:47)
  • How does a PT become a Luna practitioner? (44:06)
  • How does Luna loosen the burden of documentation for the PT? (45:59)
  • How innovation creates disruption. (50:38)
  • Can my child be seen by a Luna practitioner? (52:18)
  • What type of people should seek physical therapy? (55:04)
  • How important is therapy post-pregnancy? (58:00)
  • Will the fitness enthusiast benefit from physical therapy? (1:00:04)
  • Did Luna find Palak, or did she find Luna? (1:01:25)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast.

0:17.0

This is Mind Pup, right? In today's episode, we interview Pollock Shaw.

0:21.0

She's the co-founder of Luna Physical Therapy Services, actually come to your home,

0:27.0

and she's the head of clinical services there.

0:30.0

Now, in this episode, we talk all about physical therapy.

0:33.0

How do you know when you need it? What's the value of physical therapy?

0:37.0

What should you get out of it? And the new disrupting technology from Luna.

0:43.0

So really cool episode. In fact, this company blew us away so much

0:47.0

that Mind Pump actually became an early investor in this company.

0:51.0

So it's really, really interesting episode, especially for those of you with pain,

0:55.0

with mobility issues, performance issues, physical therapists can bring your tremendous value,

1:00.0

and now they can come right to your door, and it's all covered by insurance.

1:04.0

By the way, if you're interested in this particular service, head over to getluna.com.

1:10.0

Again, it's getluna.com. And this is for patients and for physical therapists

1:15.0

who may want to work at Luna as well, because they're always looking for good PT's.

1:20.0

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1:24.0

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1:29.0

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1:33.0

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