Dr. Vonda Wright: Active Aging Through Lifestyle Habits to Remain Healthy, Vital, and Joyful at Any Age
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Dr. Vonda Wright is a double-board-certified orthopedic surgeon, internationally recognized researcher, and elite team doctor specializing in optimizing performance at any age. Her pioneering research in mobility and musculoskeletal aging is transforming how we approach aging. Dr. Wright is also an expert in cutting-edge Orthobiologics, including PRP for arthritis. She has extensive experience caring for athletes of all ages and skill levels, including Division I teams, Olympic athletes, and professional ballet dancers.
Dr. Vonda is such an expert in so many areas and her background and work as an orthopedist gives her such a unique perspective on the state of the population. She has dedicated her career to treating the whole person and in particular focusing on women's health and research which is historically lacking. A must listen for raising healthy kids, aging well, and remaining active into older age.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.3 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | You got it. |
| 0:13.5 | You're going to stop it. |
| 0:16.4 | On this episode of the Ready State podcast, we're delighted to welcome Dr. Vonda Wright. |
| 0:20.8 | Dr. Vonda is a double board certified orthopedic surgeon, internationally recognized researcher, |
| 0:25.9 | an elite team doctor specializing in optimizing performance at any age. |
| 0:30.7 | Her pioneering research in mobility and musculoskeletal aging is transforming how we approach aging. |
| 0:36.6 | Dr. Wright is also an expert in cutting edge |
| 0:38.9 | orthobiologics, including PRP for arthritis. She has extensive experience caring for athletes of all |
| 0:45.1 | ages and skill levels, including Division I teams, Olympic athletes, and professional ballet dancers. |
| 0:50.4 | Let's start with, it's a little bit overwhelming, Dr. Vonner, because she's so competent and such an expert across so many domains of ages at high performance. It's actually like the greatest conversation. Yeah, she's just so knowledgeable. And I love that she comes from the perspective of an orthopedic surgeon, and she's still practicing. |
| 1:12.2 | I mean, she's still practicing and literally works with patients from age 11 all the way to |
| 1:17.4 | who knows how old, but of all ages, starting as young as 11. |
| 1:21.0 | And so I think that just provides this really unique perspective in terms of what she's seeing |
| 1:26.3 | and what she calls the blue room, the surgery |
| 1:28.1 | room, and how she's working really hard to make sure people don't end up in the blue room. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah, and I also just want to sort of double click on this idea that here we have is an |
| 1:38.8 | incredible orthopedic surgeon doing incredible research, but who's trying to prevent people from ending up in that |
| 1:47.2 | blue surgical suite. That's so difficult for a physician to get behind because get out of that |
| 1:52.7 | situation. They're just so busy working with so many patients. And they're really disincentivized |
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