Dr. Rami Hashish on Optimizing Athletic Performance, Aging Well, & Rethinking Work
BLISTER Podcast
BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re talking with Dr. Rami Hashish about high-level human performance, injury prevention, and how to age well. Dr. Hashish is the founder of the National Biomechanics Institute, has a Doctorate of Physical Therapy and a PhD in Biomechanics; serves on the review board for various national and international medical and engineering journals, and sits on a global committee for spine and brain injury.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Founding the National Biomechanics Institute (1:38)
- CTE in outdoor sports (10:45)
- Helmets & Accelerometers (15:38)
- Age & high-level performance (27:14)
- Active Recovery (34:24)
- The “Mismatched Theory” (38:01)
- Standing desks & our work routines (44:58)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at |
| 0:13.0 | blisterreview.com. |
| 0:16.3 | Okay, today our guest is Dr. Rami Hashish, and he and I are going to be discussing a whole |
| 0:22.5 | lot of topics surrounding high-level human performance, injury prevention, and how to age well. |
| 0:31.3 | Dr. Hishishish is the founder of the National Biomechanics Institute, and prior to starting that, |
| 0:39.6 | he earned two doctorate degrees, |
| 0:44.1 | a doctorate of physical therapy from the University of Washington School of Medicine, |
| 0:49.5 | and a PhD in Biomechanics from the University of Southern California. |
| 0:57.1 | His education and skill set allow Dr. Rami to examine human injury and performance from both medical and mechanical perspectives, and he has published more than 50 peer-reviewed |
| 1:03.0 | publications and conference presentations, holds multiple patents, serves on the review board for |
| 1:09.8 | various national and international medical and |
| 1:12.4 | engineering journals, and he is on a global committee for spine and brain injury. Dr. Rami is also |
| 1:20.3 | really passionate about the topics we discussed today, which makes this not just a really |
| 1:25.1 | informative conversation, but a really fun one too. And so with that, |
| 1:30.5 | let's go ahead and get to my conversation with Dr. Rami Hashish. Here we go. Well, Rami, how are you |
| 1:40.6 | today and where are you today? I'm doing all right. I'm in Los Angeles, California. I've heard of it. It's been a minute since I've been there. But how are things in L.A. these days? It's sunny. It's sunny. It's nice. It's getting a little hot these days, but, you know, we're loving it. Well, I'm really looking forward to this conversation. I think this is going to go |
| 2:01.1 | pretty wide ranging about some topics that are certainly near and dear to my heart, and I think |
| 2:07.5 | that are just kind of fascinating in general. But before we get there, I'd love to hear about how |
| 2:14.6 | you got set on this path that you are on now. |
| 2:19.6 | And I mean, you do a lot of stuff. |
| 2:22.6 | And so take us back a bit on like how you got here. |
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