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Jane Fonda: Have any of you watched a documentary of one of the great social movements like apartheid, or our civil rights movement, or Stonewall and asked yourself, would you have been brave enough to walk the bridge? We don’t have to wonder anymore because we are in our documentary moment.

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Who are some of your dream interviews and what is a question you would ask them?

One step closer to a cure for #DIPG

At just over 1 year post partum AND after the Olympic Trials Marathon AND Olympic 10k T&F Trials…no question @stephbruce.bsky.social continues to be a FORCE!

I love it!!! Mondays are always better because they start with a great newsletter😘😘😘

Yay!! Love your writing! I got introduced to your work after your great piece on @nikkihiltz.bsky.social and have been a fan since🙌🙌

SO excited about going to the Gil Hedley Nerve Tour in Monterey today! Anytime I get to deepen my anatomy knowledge is a good day personally and professionally!

This is just the best! You were a great teammate then and a bright light now🫶

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So I’m settled on Holistic Physical Therapist! Not Holistic with MAHA vibes (🤮), but with taking the whole body into account with a side of social justice vibes✨🫶

And even saying neuro/ortho/pelvic PT doesn’t encompass the way I treat dysfunctions in their viscera/vessels as well, which is CRUCIAL for of diagnoses, because the pelvic floor is basically a co-dependent friend responding to dysfunction around it!!

If I HADN’T treated their neck, their pelvic floor wouldn’t have responded as well when I eventually made it down there later in the session.

But the world of pelvic floor PT wasn’t always treating the whole body. Even my patients whose neck was more of an issue than their pelvic floor that day said “I fell bad you are treating my neck because I know you mostly love pf treatment”!!

I also started finding that helping people with pelvic floor diagnoses regain function felt similar to those rehab “high highs”
I personally missed!

I also was realizing that our orthopedic education left out a F$&ING HUGE and important part of my patient’s bodies: the pelvic floor region!

I left the neuro acute rehab to work in an outpatient clinic with “orthopedic” patients, but then found myself missing the “high highs” of rehab: that first muscle activation, the first unassisted transfer, the first steps..

“Neuro” patients at that time and currently are not always offered manual therapy intervention that are aimed at their mechanical restrctions and “functional” training alone is not always enough.

That was because I highly valued my “orthopedic” skill set and was using it to treat my “neuro” patients. I.E. soft tissue and joint mobilization on my patient with a brain injury who had back pain or a patient with SCI and shoulder pain.

But then when working in neuro while simultaneously studying for a multi-year manual therapy certification, I ALSO hated calling myself a Neuro PT.

Second, if you want to work with pro athletes, having neuro experience is SO helpful because you are USED to helping to make movements easier/more efficient which in the sports world translates to more strength/power (with a side of injury reduction).

That experience was IMPERATIVE to my current skill set in two ways. First, we have SO much overlap with neuro patients when we are healing post partum! That’s why I love PNF so much for treating this population.

I’ve worked extensively in neuro with patients working to regain function after spinal cord injury/brain injury/stroke. Those patients are the hardest working athletes! Our goal every day was performance training and getting more efficient/faster/functional.

I’m a pelvic floor physical therapist, but I would really rather call myself a holistic physical therapist. (Continued)

Still trying to decide! Finally thinking marathon sounds fun for the first time is 5 years🤣🤣
Maybe Mountains to Beach
in April?!

EXACTLY! Both off of injury/surgery and still being so new post partum. Not to mention YEARS of consistency. And we all know she has so much in the tank still…

Her 2024 racing alone has been SO inspiring to watch! 6th at Olympic Trials 10k and 10th at NYC marathon?!? Equal parts #Range #Grit and #MomStrength

I think I’m going to like it here🫶