7 Cutting-Edge Physical Therapy & Recovery Techniques You Can Use To Heal Your Body Fast.

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Ben Greenfield

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🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dr. John Rusin has a lot of alphabet letters after his name.

He is, after all, Dr. John Rusin, PT, DPT, CSCS, ART, FMS1-2, YBT, SFMA, FDN.

So when it comes to the best and the worst of physical therapy modalities, and the most cutting-edge physical therapy and recovery techniques you can use to heal your body fast, John is a wealth of knowledge. This guy has more than a decade of elite-level training experience and advanced degrees in both exercise science and physical therapy, and his job is to develop performance, regeneration, and aesthetics programs for some of the world's best power athletes, NFL and MLB athletes, gold-medal Olympians, competitive powerlifters, and bodybuilders. In addition to his sports-performance physical-therapy practice in Madison, Wisconsin, he's also the owner of John Rusin Fitness Systems, an online fitness platform geared toward synergizing the best of high-performance training and intelligently designed physiotherapy/regeneration programming to athletes and clients across the world.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-Why John says he's not a "run-of-the-mill" physical therapist...[11:10]

-The important difference between acupuncture and functional dry needling for healing an injury fast...[15:20]

-Whether Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) - also known as "scraping" - works...[22:45]

-How you can retrain your pelvis and bowel function using something called Pelvic Floor Postural Reeducation...[29:55]

-If "cupping" really works, and why Dr. Rusin thinks it is much like the infamous pump from the Austin Power's movie...[38:50]

-Dr. Rusin's opinions on blood flow restriction training, also known as Kaatsu...[44:55]

-How Dr. Rusin created the 12-week training program called "FHTP"...[51:20]

-How you can use elastic bands to get what is called "Rhythmic and Reactionary Dynamic Stability, Strength and Stabilization"...[53:00]

-And much more!

Resources from this show: -Dr. Rusin's Functional Hypertrophy Training Program (coupon code: “BG25” gets you $25 off of his FHT program) -This T-Nation article: The Absolute Best and Worst Therapy Methods -Chinese method of Gua sha rock scraping -The Edge tool that Dr. Rusin uses -Kaatsu occlusion training bands -Rogue Fitness bandbell bars

Do you have questions, comments or feedback for Dr. Rusin or me? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com and one of us will reply!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up? It's Ben Greenfield. I feel like crap. I feel like complete crap right
0:05.4	now because I lied to you. I didn't lie to you. I just, I mean, error last week when
0:11.9	I was talking about electrical muscle stimulation and a, a, a stu- listener wrote in and for me
0:19.5	that I was an error. And it turns out I was. I was talking about an electrical stimulation
0:23.8	device called a Mark Pro and I said, a had a square wave form that was really good for
0:28.7	healing tissue, but it's actually not the square wave form. The square wave form is the
0:32.8	one that all the other electrical muscle stimulation units have. The, the Mark Pro is what's called
0:38.6	the dynamic decaying wave form, not a square wave form. There, I can sleep at night now. And so
0:45.8	can you. I know you were laying awake at night wondering about that. So what else? I just
0:50.5	got back from the ultra beast in Lake Tahoe, the Spartan Ultra Beast, 30 plus miles of obstacles
0:57.6	and barbed wire crawls and cold weather, water dunks. It was, it was a fun time. And I just wrote
1:03.7	a report on that over at Ben Greenfield Fitness.com and also recorded a podcast about that over
1:08.8	at obstacle dominator.com. That's where I have my, my fun slash explicit slash controversial
1:15.9	obstacle racing podcast. So you can go to obstacle dominator.com if you want to listen to that.
1:21.1	Today we're going to be interviewing. We, it's actually me. You just have to listen. I have to get to
1:28.6	interview. Dr. John Roussen, we talk about these really fringe physical therapy techniques and
1:35.3	regeneration tactics for your body that a lot of people people don't know about, but that he does.
1:42.2	And he's a very, very well informed, well educated man. He's educated. Speaking of education,
1:49.0	let me educate you on something. Have you ever heard of something called lactoferin? So lactoferin
1:55.2	is this protein that helps to protect your body against infections. And you actually find it in
2:00.1	what's called the colostrum. Sorry to gross you out, but the colostrum is like the first milk produced by
2:05.5	by mammals. And it does things like bind iron and remove it from the gut. Athletes will a lot of
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