BJJ Black Belt and Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Megan Jimenez

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

Wrestling, Sports

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Doctor Megan Jimenez is a BJJ black belt, Kenpo Karate Black Belt, and an Orthopedic Surgeon.

She joins the podcast to discuss going through Medical School to become an Orthopedic Surgeon, the challenges of working with grapplers, how she recovered from an ACL injury, positions and techniques to avoid in BJJ, learning BJJ while injured, red flags to watch out for when traveling, why rolling is like a conversation, her thoughts on peptides, and when to see a medical provider if you get injured.

Learn more about Megan here: https://meganjimenez.com/

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0:00.0	What up, guys? Welcome to the jitsu podcast today. We're going to be speaking with Dr. Megan Jimenez. He is a jih Tzu black belt. He's also a Kimbo karate black belt. She's, as you'll talk about, she's been doing martial arts for a long time. And she's also an orthopedic surgeon, which, you know, doing a sport like jihitsu where you're just tugging on joints aggressively.
0:22.6	You know, it's funny because I remember, you know, having orthopedic surgeons and I remember
0:28.3	when my nose got broken years ago, you know, the surgeons are looking at what we're doing.
0:33.3	They're like, what the heck are you doing?
0:34.6	So I think it's interesting.
0:35.8	She has an interesting perspective at a vantage point that's a little different than a lot of us, right?
0:41.6	Because she's in there repairing people and she knows exactly what can happen. And, you know,
0:46.6	she also, she's a surgeon. She has to have her hands and her body functional to do her job. So I
0:52.1	think it's, she has an interesting perspective that a lot of people
0:54.7	don't necessarily have. And so during the podcast, we talk about a lot of interesting things,
0:59.5	you know, we talk about sort of some of the positions that she stays away from or the
1:04.9	different types of techniques that she stays away from personally sort of to avoid, you know,
1:09.7	excess injuries. Because you know, you can't, you know, excess injuries because, you know,
1:11.0	you can't, you can't eliminate injuries, but you can reduce them to some degree.
1:15.3	And she talks about some of those ideas.
1:17.2	We get into the ideas of warm-ups, how to roll and even how to roll with women if you're a guy
1:22.9	and like kind of some ideas there.
1:24.4	Plus just anything under the sun that relates kind of back to training,
1:29.0	injuries, balancing, and even getting older too, because we're all, you know, none of us are
1:33.1	exactly in our 20s. So we'll get into that, guys, and hopefully you guys get something from the
1:37.4	podcast that's useful to you that you can implement in your training coming up. We talk a lot,
1:42.7	one thing we talk a lot about, which is important, is even
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