How to Eliminate Pain, Heal Faster, and Perform Better - With Dan Swinscoe
The Model Health Show
Shawn Stevenson
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Our incredible bodies were designed to move, and with that, sometimes comes injury or overuse. If you want to recover optimally, physical therapy is an incredible tool that can help you not only restore strength and mobility but come back better than before.
Today’s guest, Dan Swinscoe, is a physical therapist and strength and conditioning coach. Dan has over 30 years of experience helping folks move better. In his work, Dan creates customized programs that restore mobility, improve strength, and address the root cause of pain and limitation.
Dan joins this episode of The Model Health Show for an enlightening conversation on rehabilitation, pain, and healing. You’re going to learn about identifying the root cause of injuries and how to build strength while healing. Dan is also going to address the nuances of relying on imaging as a diagnostic tool, how to understand what pain is, and how to get strong for life.
In this episode you’ll discover:
- The history of physical therapy. (5:01)
- How hurt and harm differ. (6:13)
- The shocking truth about imaging and diagnosing the root cause of pain. (6:38)
- What MRIs should be used for. (8:36)
- The connection between the hips and the spine. (13:08)
- Why your discs are like a credit card. (13:31)
- What percentage of disc injuries improve without treatment. (15:36)
- How to fix your function to reduce or eliminate pain. (17:17)
- What specific rest is and how to implement it. (24:09)
- How stress can impact your level of pain. (27:06)
- Why mindset is an important part of building confidence after injury. (39:51)
- Specific tips for increasing function and range of motion. (41:49)
- What muscle guarding is. (44:54)
- How to use visualization as a healing tool. (52:36)
- The role that diaphragmatic breathing plays in feeling better. (55:05)
- Three fundamental human movements we should all engage in. (1:10:14)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson. |
| 0:04.7 | For more, visit the modelhealthshow.com. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to the model host show. |
| 0:13.1 | This is fitness and nutrition expert, Sean Stevenson, and I'm so grateful for you tuning in with me today. |
| 0:18.2 | If we're going to be training and challenging our bodies and just |
| 0:21.4 | getting out here and playing, having fun, testing our limits, it comes along with the territory |
| 0:28.7 | that we are going to experience some bumps and some bruises and even some injuries along the |
| 0:34.3 | way. But what do we do when we are faced with those challenges? What do we |
| 0:39.1 | do when we want to heal and get better and get back to playing and enjoying this incredible |
| 0:44.2 | life? Well, this very special episode is going to be absolutely filled with powerful insights |
| 0:51.4 | for stacking conditions in our favor to heal faster, to come back better, |
| 0:57.5 | and to keep doing the things that we love to do. We've got a world-class industry leading |
| 1:04.4 | physical therapists on today's episode. And I know how good he is because he is my physical therapist. He's helped me |
| 1:12.7 | with a couple of injuries over the years and I can't even stress how incredible his insights are, |
| 1:20.5 | but not just the insights that he has and the level of skill and expertise, but the person |
| 1:24.9 | that he is and his ability to really help me to understand. It's not just |
| 1:29.9 | when you hear the term physical therapy, that therapy part is so important and getting well. It |
| 1:37.0 | isn't just the musculoskeletal. It isn't just healing the tissues. It's also addressing what's going on |
| 1:43.1 | with the brain and the nervous system. |
| 1:44.9 | Because a lot of times when we're experiencing an injury and our body shuts down function or doesn't allow us to do certain things, it's a protective reaction. |
| 1:54.2 | Our incredible nervous system, our brain, our body is working synergistically to keep us safe. |
| 2:00.7 | And sometimes though, these things |
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