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Board-certified orthopedic clinical specialist Dr. Courtney Mears joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about physical therapy. What’s the relationship between physical therapy, physiotherapy, and sports medicine? How long does physical therapy last? Is it supposed to hurt the way it does? Does VR physical therapy exist? Is preventative physical therapy effective, or only after an injury? How do physical therapists help treat patients with pneumonia? How does yoga assist in physical therapy? Answers to these questions and more await on Physical Therapy Support.
0:00 Physical Therapy Support
0:16 How long does physical therapy last?
0:42 Is it supposed to hurt?
1:18 I was told there would be no math required
1:51 PT for a bad back
2:21 Physical Therapy: Home Edition
3:07 [splashing noises]
3:54 PT for the jaw?
5:00 Pinched nerves
6:11 Preventative physical therapy
6:42 MCL injuries
7:42 ELI5 OT vs PT
8:20 Physical therapy vs Personal training
8:50 Train that brain
9:48 VR PT
10:25 Blood flow restriction training
11:12 You’re gonna worry yourself sick
11:57 How do they always know
12:25 Ice or heat?
13:02 Cortisone
13:37 ELI5 Physical therapy, physiotherapy, and sports medicine
14:18 How much of physiotherapy is pseudoscience?
14:59 Bladder control/Pelvic floor after giving birth
15:43 Why physical therapy stretches are at times harder than lifting weights
16:05 Cupping
16:41 Mirror therapy
17:05 Physical Therapy: Origins
17:43 How do physical therapists help treat patients with pneumonia?
18:11 How does yoga assist in physical therapy?
18:52 Scar tissue that I wish you saw, sarcastic mister know-it-all
19:27 TENS machine
20:17 The Epley maneuver
20:48 This is over 40
21:42 Kinesio tape
22:18 Scoliosis
22:46 Phantom limb pain
Director: Jackie Phillips
Director of Photography: AJ Young
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Courtney Mears
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer
Camera Operator: Seth Craven
Sound Mixer: Gray Thomas-Sowers
Production Assistant: Doug Archibald
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Additional Editor: Samantha DiVito
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
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