Our head athletic trainer came up to me one day and he said, you know, you're you're just

taking a little extra time with the athletes. And I said, yeah. And he said, well, I mean,

you know, we really like to use those modalities. The ultrasound and the stem and ice and stuff.

And I said, yeah, well, how many times do those football players keep coming in for that

every day? And he said, well, yeah. And I said, and how many of my athletes are getting

better faster and getting out there. He suddenly realized, oh, yeah, there's there's some benefit

to that manual therapy. And you can't always just ice stem and addville everybody, right? So.

Hey, thanks for joining Trail Runner Nation on today's episode. We have Kerry Gustafson, who

is an athletic trainer. And she is going to tell us what she can do to help you be the best runner

for the longest number of years ever. And she's going to do what, Kerry? I'm going to teach you

how to optimize performance, prevent injury and enable recovery. That right after these messages.

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