Talking Mind-Body Connections With PT Charlie Merrill
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- It was great to catch up with fellow physical therapist Charlie Merrill and talk to him about the mind-body approach. We discuss how it relates to our practices, how Charlie approaches patients with this new understanding for healing, and other bits of wisdom thrown in there. Hope you enjoy it!
To learn more about Charlie and his work you can find him in the links below:
Web: Mperformance.com
Insta: @charliemerrill
UA-cam: @charliemerrill
As a child I was severely beaten many times with a wooden bread board all over my body . I learned to stand unmoving and unflinching as the board eventually broke piece by piece, beating after beating . 40 years later I have chronic pain that travels through my body . I've recently realized that the pain I thought I'd trained myself not to feel as a kid is ricocheting around my body .
These videos have been so helpful .
Let me be the first to comment and say that I have shared emails with both of these gentlemen when I had a running injury and there were both extremely helpful and super friendly! I haven't listened to the podcast yet but I know it's going to be a good one!🏋
Jim you are so genuine in wanting to help others and so kind! This video is so eye opening. Working with you 1:1 has been instrumental in my healing journey from decades of chronic illness.
15:41 when y’all are discussing the increasing discussions around the complexity of pain, it reminds me of how I found this Mind/Body stuff. I was doing McGill’s Big 3 and getting NO WHERE fast. I’m extremely athletic, with a mind for systems. But I just couldn’t understand how it was possible my body was just so desperately complicated. It creates overwhelm. I think Sarno’s approach has survived the growth in technical understanding because his message was simple. It is sort of like messaging in fitness: there’s eat less+move more (Sarno version) and there is MacroCounting+Progressive Overload and LISS/MISS. They’re on the same spectrum, but you need to know where you (your mind) belong. I like the complicated end of fitness/nutrition and could listen to Layne Norton scream at me all day. But I prefer for Dan Buglio to tell me to calm down afterwards 😂.
Great interview! Jim, what I love about your videos is that you DO go into the body. As you said it’s Mind/Body, not just mind ❤
Yes, definitely need to talk about the body and the symptoms but in a different way, then we would typically look at the body
11:52 love the red pill/blue pill reference. I think the purple pill is when you realize you must care for the mind and the body. They’re always talking to each other.
Thanks Jim, I just sent you a consultation request 😊
I like how you guys were talking about athletes because i feel like i can relate even more
Hi Jim, I was doing so my better with central sensitization ( diagnosed as fibromyalgia), but in January 2023 I had Covid, after vomiting for 3 days in a row, I lost my voice, I could not speak for one month. Than gradually I started regain my voice, but until now , voice is hoarse and talking cause a lot of tension in my chest muscles and pain in diaphragm ( additionally to laryngitis, I had bronchitis with constant cough for about 3 months, both conditions were treated). I started voice therapy, but it doesn’t seem to help,and I still feel the pain and tension in the diaphragm and middle back, all on the left side of my body, even without movement. It’s been couple month since it all started, my body should heal. I think, probably it became chronic tension and pain. I would appreciate your thoughts.
Hi Jim this is such a good interview. I feel the more I listen to more the truths and information settles in but it still takes time to really let it make sense. I’m wondering what you or Charlie think about a concussion or might just be whiplash (from a fall) that is taking more than 6 months to heal. My instinct is telling me there’s a lot of mindbody things going on because of how the symptoms unfolded over time and there was an extreme amount of fear and extreme amount of “ this isn’t getting better “ in my mind. The reality is the mind is still affected and I think affecting the nervous system even if there was a “shake up”. Would love to know what you think. Do you have any insight or experience with this. Thanks 🙏 ❤
Yeah, it certainly sounds like you had a physical injury with this happening six months ago, but it is nearing more healing time and typically the symptoms should be abating over time. If you recognize you’ve had a good amount of fear and worry that can definitely play into the symptoms and that’s something that a lot of people don’t realize or recognize how much impact that can have. so I would just try to reduce that piece and relax, and let your system continue to heal from this.
@@thepainpt thank you so much for your reply! I do better on the days I’m less emotional or troubled by the pain in my neck. It’s hard because I hear whiplash can be long healing.
Hi all I would love to know what Jim means when he says a structural issue. If you have chronic skin concerns or a chronic uti is this structural or can he help with this?
What I mean by this is a cause of your symptom being in the body locally like an injury or something locally they’re causing a symptom. Otherwise we are looking at the brain and nervous system being the culprit in causing the symptom
I’ve been told I have embedded infection within my bladder I’ve been on antibiotics for 6 years had pain symptoms for 10 years I so baddly want to heal and want it to be TMS but I’m worried it won’t be that. I just keep thinking it must be structural for me? I have booked a Skype with you Jim to see if this is or not….feel like my hopes will be shattered if it does turn out it’s structural.
Sounds like me . I scheduled a session as well. I have urinary urgency and no actual uti. Awful I get it.
@@user-qc1ug9lg9dI have chronic uti or IC any am hearing more and more stories that it’s TMS! 😮
Andre Agassi (tennis player)?
For sure he was thinking of Andy Murray, more recent, had a couple of back surgeries in lumbar region.
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