#40: Tom Walters
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Tom Walters is an orthopedic physical therapist, author, and the face of the wildly popular Rehab Science Instagram and Youtube channels.
In this episode, he reflects on some of the most common questions surrounding regarding pain, injury, exercise, and treatment.
Tom also talks about:
-What exactly physical therapy is and how it compares to other types of treatment
-His thoughts on chiropractors, CBD/THC gel, and stretching
-His advice for Brandon as he manages chronic back pain
-The role of the placebo effect when treating pain
-Whether running 15-20 miles per week is bad for you
-Adjusting your step cadence to run pain-free
-Rucking for cardio and core exercise
-His new book outlining 30 rehab programs that treat the 50 most common types of pain
-Getting your blood work done to detect nutrient deficiencies
-Limiting beliefs he's had to overcome as on his journey as an influencer and entrepreneur
-The habits, books, and people that have changed his life
Tom's charitable cause:
The Makai Foundation, a volunteer-driven charity focused on rebuilding Maui after the deadly wildfires of 2023.
Books mentioned in this episode:
Rehab Science by Tom Walters
Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett & Glen Cordoza
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
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| 0:00.0 | You know, people get pretty stressed when they have a pain that they can't see it's inside |
| 0:07.0 | somewhere and they don't know what's causing it. |
| 0:09.0 | And so I think when you kind of start to just arm yourself a little bit with some knowledge |
| 0:13.2 | about pain and injury, it can kind of help protect you a little bit from some of those |
| 0:17.3 | worries about it. |
| 0:23.9 | Welcome to A Better Life with Brandon Turner. |
| 0:27.8 | That is me, where world-class guests share their wisdom on building a better life. |
| 0:31.9 | Join me as we explore the habits, the actions, and the beliefs that have guided their journey with the aim of helping you apply those lessons to your own. |
| 0:35.3 | We set on signs on your better life. apply those lessons to your own. |
| 0:52.1 | Dr. Tom Walters. |
| 0:53.8 | Thanks for having me, man. |
| 0:57.1 | This is Austin B here. Maui. This is the best location I've been for a podcast. |
| 1:01.9 | It's pretty good. Yeah. And you came out a good time too. The whale. Have you seen any whales yet? |
| 1:14.2 | I haven't. They just started. I've not seen one either. But people are seeing them. live out here in Kihei and we'll usually go on their boat so i've been lucky to see some whales out here but um you go check it out it's yeah it's wild it's my favorite time of the year and i'm about to leave for a few weeks was just sad but yeah the whale season like we go out every year with paddle |
| 1:18.7 | board out there you just paddle like a mile or two out there and you're just alone with whales and it's |
| 1:23.4 | the craziest experience that's crazy yeah it's kind of freaky when they get real close to the boat. Yeah. I remember seeing this one with this whale, a video of a whale breaching and landing on this |
| 1:31.3 | kayak. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I saw the ones. You see the one the other day, maybe the same one, |
| 1:36.1 | but the guy was kite surfing. It was cool. They got the video on two angles. They got a video |
| 1:39.8 | of somebody from the beach recording him, and then he had a GoPro on him, and he's just whipping kite surfing, and a whale came up right and just smacked him and hit him. |
| 1:48.6 | And so they got this amazing two-camera angle of him getting just whacked by a whale. |
| 1:52.2 | He was okay, but the whale just breached and just came down on him. |
| 1:56.0 | Insane, but anyway, speaking of getting whacked by a whale and getting in pain, I want to talk to you a little bit today about injury, about pain, about a lot more than that. So I know you as like this Uber huge YouTube Instagram influencer, like Paris Hilton style. No, I was kidding. But one of the top orthopedic physical therapists in the world. I mean, |
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