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Podcast listeners, thank you so much for checking out today's show.

This is episode 20 of the Squat University podcast.

The goal with each and every one of these

shows is to bring you as much value-packed content to help you move better in the gym and in life,

decrease your aches and pains and help you reach your true athletic potential. Now, if the song

quality of today's podcast is a little bit different, it's because I'm recording at my workplace,

boost physical therapy and sports performance out here in Kansas City and not in my usual location, which is at my house, a couple

minutes away from here. So bear with me if it does sound a little bit off. Today's podcast

is going to be covering or starting a discussion at least on the topic of hip pain. Now, hip injuries, including pain

with the groin, the lateral hip, or even the backside of the hip, like a pyriformis syndrome,

are not nearly as prevalent in weightlifting, powerlifting, and crossfit compared to other

types of injuries like shoulder, back, or knees, but they still happen.

So we want to be able to still cover them and learn from them so that we can address them

when they do occur.

Now, recording this podcast actually comes at a very interesting time.

I just got done a few minutes ago working with my very last patient in the

morning who is a powerlifter who is currently dealing with some hip pain. So he squats in the mid-600s

and was having this deep pinching pain in the front side of his hip that started a few weeks ago

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