EP 235: Dr. Amy Frugé — Why Your Spine & Stress Might Be Responsible for Your Forearm & Finger Pain

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Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Amy Frugé (DPT) is a former Martial Arts World Champion, rock climber, and the founder of Converge Physical Therapy. We talked about extremity and finger pain from unusual sources, how to maintain a healthy spine, how emotions and stress affect our pain, psychedelic experiences, the pain, tension, and fear triangle, ways to empty your stress bucket, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing podcast.
0:05.1	This is your host, Stephen Dimit.
0:07.3	My guest today is Dr. Amy Fruget.
0:10.2	Amy is a doctor of physical therapy.
0:12.8	She's based in Salt Lake City and has her own physical therapy business called ConvergePT.
0:19.9	And the topic of today's episode was unlikely sources of pain, specifically pain in the arm or
0:28.1	finger.
0:28.9	Maybe you think you have an elbow injury or pain in your forearm or you think you have
0:32.5	a finger injury that just won't go away and seems kind of weird.
0:36.6	Sometimes that is actually from the spine. So we talked
0:40.2	about a number of case studies that she's seen in her clinic where extremity pain is actually caused
0:46.5	by issues with the spine. We talked about how to tell if that might be something that you're
0:51.6	dealing with and what to do about it. And then we also talked about pain that is the result of emotions and stress.
0:59.0	That was super interesting as well.
1:01.4	But essentially, the body can't tell emotional stress from physical stress.
1:06.4	And it all kind of boils up, especially in today's world where we're always inundated with
1:11.6	busyness and emails and things like that. So yeah, it was really fascinating. She had a number of
1:17.1	really wild stories from, you know, people that she's seen in her clinic. Yeah, we talked about that.
1:23.3	And then we also talked about ways to empty your stress bucket and how to return to kind of the balance of your two hemispheres.
1:31.9	Sounds a little woo-woo, but I promise it'll make a lot of sense even for you type A hyper-rational types listening to this.
1:39.8	I really enjoyed it.
1:41.2	So yeah, that's what you can expect from today's episode.
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