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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Melissa is a performance physical therapist and is heavily involved in the CrossFit space as a healthcare provider, as well as an athlete. Melissa grew up in the Metropolitan New York area, but now resides in the Tampa Bay area.
Upon graduating from PT school, Melissa started working in an outpatient orthopedic physical therapy practice, but was unsatisfied with what she was able to achieve there and the level of care provided for patients.
At the time, she was coaching remotely and decided to break away form the clinic altogether, and opened up her own practice. Melissa is now a remote rehab and performance coach, as well as a physical therapist with her clinic out of her affiliate, CrossFit Westchase in Largo, FL.
In addition, she is a proud member of the Rapid Health Optimization team as a movement specialist. When she’s not working or training, she enjoys getting outdoors in the beautiful Florida weather with her boyfriend, Darren.
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0:00.0 | Shark family this week on Barb Bell Shrach Dr. Melissa Kapuro is back. |
0:04.6 | Today we're talking about back pain, which only affects like 112% of the population. |
0:09.6 | That might be slightly over exaggerating, but it's an enormous number of people. |
0:13.7 | I don't know if I know anybody in my life that hasn't had some sort of back pain. |
0:17.7 | On top of that, if you listen to last week's show, I even say this in the show today, |
0:22.5 | I've been dealing with some weird irritation that is just kind of popped up out of kind of |
0:27.9 | nowhere for no real reason, but it's annoying and I don't like it. And Dr. Melissa is here to kind of help |
0:33.4 | me understand a little bit of synthesize the thoughts into an actual action plan. |
0:38.3 | Well, let's hopefully provide some insight in how you can eliminate your own back pain. |
0:43.5 | As always, friends, make sure you get over to rapid health report.com. |
0:46.4 | That is where Dan Garner, Dr. Andy Galpinner, who are doing a free lab lifestyle and performance analysis, |
0:50.4 | and you can access that at rapid health report.com. Friends, let's get into the show. |
1:01.5 | Welcome to Marlisle. and you can access that at rapid health report.com friends let's get into the show welcome to barbell shrugged i'm anderson varner dog garson doctor melissa capuro does the doctor thing weird you out yeah i'm not yeah totally |
1:08.3 | calling me doctor like people wouldn't imagine somebody looking at me and me like |
1:13.3 | Dr. Varner go stop it whatever you are eating today reverse that that is a terror like don't give me |
1:21.6 | that I don't want that title that sounds too much it's it's definitely like I don't know on the the one hand, it's cool because people are like, you deserve that because you earn that. And I'm like, yeah, you're right. But at the same time, it like kind of like makes me cringe in the way it's like, even people that are my friends call me Dr. Melissa sometimes. And I'm like, no, can we not? Like, yeah, I feel like if I had the doctor in front of my name, it would be the thing that like my friends would only say to me to talk crap. They'd be like, oh, okay, doctor. I'm sure you fell. I don't know. Settle down guys. Like Doug, hey doctor. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, wrong person. Yo, on today's show of Barbell Shrugged, if you listened last week to our show with Brian Borses, |
2:05.1 | and you heard me talking about slight irritation and things that have been happening in my low back, |
2:11.7 | which is the first time ever in my life I've ever even thought about my low back being an issue. |
2:17.4 | And now we have a doctor, |
2:19.0 | a physical therapy, doctor, and your, I have so many questions for you because it's such a |
2:24.6 | new thing to me. I'm not used to it. But I guess to kind of start, I'd love to kind of like dig |
2:32.8 | into, in your experience, how many, like, where do you think |
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