This is Everyday Wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.

And now here are your host, clinical health psychologist Dr Kelly Donahue and nurse practitioner

Cynthia Thurlow. Good morning we are here with Dr Steve Horwitz he's a

graduate of Cornell and the National University of Health Sciences.

He was selected by the USOC to be the sole chiropractor on the U.S. Olympic team, Medical

Staff for the 26th Olympia. That's impressive. He has traveled

internationally with USATF and consulted with several Division 1 sports programs.

He's the chairman of the Maryland Council on Physical Fitness, the Maryland Director for the NSCA, and the co-chair of the Care and Prevention of Sports Injury's program in Montgomery County.

Maryland, he's a two-time champion of the Tactical Strength Challenge Masters division

and the founder of Team Safe Sports. Welcome. Welcome. We're so excited to have you.

Thank you so much.

And we'd love to get started with understanding how people got to where they are today.

So can you please give us a brief or not so brief history leading us up to today and how you came to do what you do?

Wow, okay, so I guess just briefly start in college.

So I was very fortunate and my parents were able

to get me to Cornell University and afford that. It was a little bit of a struggle for

them but it was just an amazing experience and with all these smarty pants and I kind of was interested in sports and in medicine but frankly

had an injury to my shoulder in

and I was being shown how to weight lift

for the first time and I hurt my shoulder

and I actually had a spotter. I was smart enough at 18 to have a

smarter, but the spotter wasn't smart enough to spot me and I wasn't smart enough to make sure

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