Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick,

and I'm your host. And on today's episode, we are talking all things physical therapy with a real-life

physical therapist. My guest today is Maria Osowski, who I met in Wausau, Wisconsin when I went up there for the Red Granite Grindr.

She's actually been on the podcast before, episode 131, whenever we did a recap of that race.

She was the winner of the 144-mile version of the Red Granite Grindr.

And during that episode, I found out she was a physical

therapist and my podcasting senses started to tingle. And many months later, Maria joins us again,

this time talking about how to keep yourself out of the physical therapist office. Maria is a

lifelong athlete.

She has done many different disciplines of athletics,

and I thought she would be the perfect guest to really work us through many things,

how to prevent injury, how to have a endurance body,

how to maintain a level of overall fitness,

and what to do if you do get injured or how to even prevent injury on endurance efforts, long backpacking trips, whatever it may be.

And we talk about when you should consider seeing a physical therapist.

So I don't know about you, but for me, being injured is one of the most difficult things to deal with.

There's nothing that I want more than to be active, to be outdoors, and to be using my body. And when things hurt, it's less fun. And so I personally found this episode to be very informative and helpful.

We actually recorded this one a little over a month ago. I've already started to put into practice

a lot of the things that we talked about in today's

episode, and I can vouch for their efficacy.

I've already noticed improvements, and maybe I'll tell you a little bit more about that

after the show.

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