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today we're going to talk about one of my newest passions which is a form of exercise training that I believe is one of the greatest innovations in the last century.

It's called Blood Flow Restriction Training and we're joined today by Ed LaCara, who's been doing this for quite a while,

and he's going to share with us his insights on this powerful technology,

and I'm really excited about this one.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today, Ed. Thank you so much, Dr. McCullough, for having me. I'm really super

excited to be here. So rather than attempt to describe your biography at the

beginning, I'm going to let you do that and so people can know what

your professional training is and then maybe from there jump right into how you

first were first exposed to blood flow restriction training and then we can go from there.

Sure that sounds good.

My educational background is my PhD is in sports medicine and I'm also a doctor of chiropractic

certified athletic trainer and a strength and conditioning coach.

So I combine all those kind of backgrounds

into the treatment plan and approach that I use for my patients.

One of the frustrations that I've had, after being in practice, I've been in practice for about 20 years, was that very often patients would see me while

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