S3 EP17: Caring For Your Body Like An Athlete
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of the Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast, we’re joined by Dr. Todd Dersham, an Active Life Coach and chiropractor who’s here to talk about getting your body to move at its best. Listen in to hear what the Dr. Todd has to say about finding the right chiropractor or PT for you, how movement can be used as therapy or a form of expression, and how to diagnose and address imbalances.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- Functional diagnosis
- Whether everyone who works out should be receiving regular adjustments
- How to go about finding a chiropractor or PT that’s a good match for you
- The best place to start dealing with a nagging pain
- The use of pain relievers and the role they should play
- How people can use movement as a therapy
- How to diagnose and address imbalances
- What to say to people who have been told that parts of their bodies are “bad”
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- Our Fitness Blog.
- Behind the scenes at CVG.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | taking care of yourself, one of the jokes in school was always, if your back, if your spine was on |
| 0:04.7 | your face, you'd take better care of it. Oh, yes. And I know that's really corny, but I think it gets |
| 0:11.6 | to a deeper point that you're speaking of is we need to put our oxygen mask on first, and we really |
| 0:17.8 | do truly need to take care of ourselves and it's not selfish. |
| 0:20.9 | I mean, I spent a ton of time thinking that taking care of myself and going for a massage |
| 0:26.0 | and stuff like that was an extremely selfish thing. |
| 0:28.5 | But I do realize at this point that, you know, I can't take care of my family, can't take |
| 0:32.1 | care of everything else if my cup isn't full. |
| 0:38.4 | The big question is this. |
| 0:42.3 | In a world of fake Instagram models and fad diets, how do real people achieve their |
| 0:49.3 | fitness goals? |
| 0:50.9 | We are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:57.0 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 1:07.0 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:14.5 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:21.2 | Well, hello there and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm Rachel. |
| 1:26.5 | And we have an awesome episode for you today. |
| 1:27.6 | Awesome. I feel like we always say that, but honestly, we have a awesome episode for you today. Awesome. |
| 1:32.9 | I feel like we always say that, but honestly, we have a guest on and I feel good about when we have really good guests on and you guys get to hear some more knowledge base than what you already have. |
| 1:39.1 | Really great guest, really knowledgeable guests. |
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