s3/e26 Understanding Pain with Dr. Megan Waples, PT, DPT (@perfectstridept)
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
What is pain? No, not the suffering we experience in a race or hard workout, but ACTUAL pain? Physical therapist Dr. Megan Waples, PT, DPT of @perfectstridept joins the show today to talk to us about pain!
- What is pain?
- Is pain always a bad thing?
- The difference between the "pain of racing" vs injury-related pain
- Is where you feel pain always where the issue is?
- Is inflammation always bad? Considering RICE for injury management
- Acute injury vs overuse injury vs chronic injury
- Chronic pain & cortical smudging
- Why it's emotionally challenging to rehab an injury
- Ways to "hack" your brain when you're going through rehab
- Talking about chronic pain
- Lifestyle factors that can help recovery
Dr. Megan Waples (PT, DPT) is a former collegiate cross country and track athlete (Emory University) who now works with endurance athletes at Perfect Stride Physical Therapy in New York City. She has a special interest in helping runners get back to training pain-free. https://perfectstridept.com/megan-waples/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:07.3 | When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. |
| 0:14.2 | And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know. |
| 0:18.6 | If you're a new runner, or you've been doing this for a long time, |
| 0:21.1 | there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. My guest this week is |
| 0:26.5 | physical therapist Dr. Megan Wapples, a former collegiate cross-country and track athlete who now |
| 0:31.1 | works with endurance athletes at the Perfect Stride Physical Therapy Clinic in New York City. So she is |
| 0:36.4 | uniquely versed in talking about runners, |
| 0:39.3 | like all of my guests usually are. And today we are talking about pain, the concept of pain, |
| 0:45.5 | acute pain, chronic pain, injury pain, all the things that are beyond the kind of mental |
| 0:51.3 | suffering that we experience when we're in a hard workout or a race. |
| 0:54.8 | That's not the pain we're talking about today. We're talking about how to run pain free or what to |
| 0:59.6 | do when you are in pain and kind of like the concept of pain in general. It's a really interesting |
| 1:04.9 | conversation. I definitely learned a thing or two and I hope you do too. Megan, welcome to the show. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm excited to have you here. |
| 1:13.1 | Excited to be here. |
| 1:14.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:17.0 | So go ahead and tell us, Megan, how did you become a runner? |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah, so I started pretty early. |
| 1:23.4 | I had a great example in my dad. |
| 1:29.6 | He's a big runner, and I think my first race was when I was like in third grade at a turkey trap |
| 1:36.0 | Obviously didn't start training training till later, but that kind of introduced a love of running |
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