S1 Ep55: Episode 55 - The Fantastic Dr. Stracks!
The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW
Nicole Sachs, LCSW
4.9 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, happy podcast day. Hope everybody is having a good Friday or a good any day that |
| 0:18.6 | you guys are listening to this. This is Nicole. Welcome to my podcast, The Cure for Chronic |
| 0:24.1 | Pain. We have such a treat today. I have never sat down and talked to Dr. John Strax about his |
| 0:32.0 | journey to finding this TMS work. And we decided because we have obviously already started planning |
| 0:40.2 | our workshop in Chicago on February 22nd and 23rd to sit down on the podcast and really talk |
| 0:47.1 | together about what it's been like for him coming up through the ranks doing this TMS work, |
| 0:53.6 | becoming the amazing physician he is after training at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, |
| 1:00.8 | coming to Northwestern University in Chicago and doing this work for years, really changing lives. |
| 1:06.8 | And then finally a few years ago decided to go out on his own and really dedicate his practice |
| 1:12.8 | or some percentage of it to TMS work and to helping people find this work and change their lives. |
| 1:18.9 | So we have never sat down and had that kind of a conversation. I've known him for years. He has |
| 1:25.3 | referred some of the toughest cases ever into my practice. If you guys remember the case that I |
| 1:32.5 | used to call Olivia as a case study, her name is actually Natalie. She was one of my podcast guests, |
| 1:39.2 | several, not several, a million weeks ago. One of the first podcasts guests I had when I began |
| 1:45.1 | this podcast over a year ago, she had such a severe condition that when Dr. Stratx and I connected |
| 1:52.3 | over her case, probably in about 2012, she was bedridden on Suicide Watch on her mother's couch in |
| 2:01.4 | Chicago and like she felt that all hope had been lost before she found Dr. Stratx. And then after |
| 2:08.5 | finding his work and doing his group, he said, Nicole, take this, take this patient and see what you |
| 2:14.4 | can do. And through both of our work with her together, she went from somebody who was completely |
| 2:20.4 | disabled with no hope of a life to going through four years of rigorous vet school, graduating at |
| 2:27.1 | the very top of her class, completing her internship. And now she is in an emergency medicine residency |
| 2:33.6 | at the University of Pennsylvania, a brilliant girl that is going to make a huge mark on the world |
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