Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Nugget Climbing Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimmit.

My friend Matt Heiliger is back on the podcast today. This is a follow-up episode. The way that

follow-ups work is these are bonus episodes that are available for patrons who support the Nugget

Climbing podcast for $5 per month or more on Patreon.

I'm going to give you a free teaser here today. That's what you're listening to right now.

And the full version is available right now. If you sign up for Patreon for $5 per month,

you'll get access to all of the follow-ups that I've done, close to 50 of them,

with more coming all the time. And you also get ad-free episodes for the regular podcast

and more goodies. You can check out all of that and learn more at patreon.com slash the nugget

climbing. But yeah, so today's episode is really just an update on me with some

really great input from Matt along the way. I've talked about this a couple times on the

podcast here and there, but I had a pretty serious injury back in December right after getting

to Waco tanks. I partially tore my bicep tendon in my right arm.

It ended up being a grade two tear, which we explain in more detail in this episode.

But yeah, I've talked about it a little bit here and there. I've alluded to it, but I haven't

shared the full story. So this episode is my

full story of my injury and how I rehabbed it and was able to get back to 100% within a few

months. Matt was a huge part of that. I mean, the key part of that. He is such a good physical therapist and he helped me through

all of the steps. And he's been especially helpful with that last phase of recovering from an

injury, which is how do I get back to my sport? How do I get back to climbing hard and getting back

to doing the thing that I loved? And even doing the thing that hurt me in the first place

with confidence and not being afraid that I'm going to injure myself again. So that's what we

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