We Asked A Plastic Surgeon The Questions Nobody Asks (Ft. Dr. Rick Green)

FireFly Recovery: The Secret Weapon in Every NFL & MLB Training Room | As Seen on Shark Tank

🔥 What if a $48 device that looks like a Band-Aid could outperform your $1,000 compression boots? We sat down with Anthony Kjenstad, President of FireFly Recovery (yes, the Shark Tank company), to find out why every NFL, MLB, and WNBA team is using this thing.https://fireflyrecovery.comJason Young, DC and Kathy Lynch, DPT discuss the science behind this incredible device that is helping fight DVT, leg fatigue, edema and DOMS. Plus: the science of 400% increased microcirculation, why this medical device accidentally became a sports recovery revolution, and what's coming next for upper extremity use.⏱️ CHAPTERS:1:37 - Meet Anthony Kjenstad, FireFly Recovery President8:01 - Dr. Jason's "tricky leg" cellulitis story14:43 - Exact placement: finding the peroneal nerve21:23 - Why FireFly beats every other recovery tool27:49 - How Shark Tank changed the business forever34:05 - The science: zone one exercise without moving40:32 - Patrick Mahomes' recovery and female athletes47:10 - Lightning round game with Anthony🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYS:• FireFly increases microcirculation 400% vs. 117% for compression boots• Started as a medical DVT prevention device, accidentally became recovery tech• Optimal dose: 2 hours (vs. 30-45 min in compression boots)• Used by 90%+ of WNBA teams, nearly every NFL/MLB team• Costs ~$48 for about 15 treatments (roughly $3/session)• Upper extremity version coming soon for pitchers/quarterbacks👤 ABOUT OUR GUEST:Anthony Kjenstad is the President of FireFly Recovery (https://fireflyrecovery.com), a neuromuscular electrostimulation device company that appeared on Shark Tank in 2025. FireFly started as a medical device for DVT prevention and pivoted to athletic recovery after trainers discovered its benefits.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📢 THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY:Brain.FMMusic for your brain! Your subscription helps the PTCH Podcast.🔗 https://brain.fm/ptchpodcastTry free for 30 days!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🩺 ABOUT THE PTCH PODCAST:What happens when a chiropractor and physical therapist team up? Dr. Jason Young (DC) and Dr. Kathy Lynch (PT) bring you evidence-based health, fitness, and recovery talk with a slightly edgy twist. No fluff, no BS—just real talk about what actually works.🔔 SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW:🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4WRdMdsnRaWsAbaUBDrMtw?si=a7eErDsFSz-0oiB0AxJQpQ🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ptch-podcast/id1805086823🌐 Website: https://ptchpodcast.com📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/ptchpodcast🎵 TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@ptchpodcast👍 If this episode helped you, smash that subscribe button and drop a comment about YOUR favorite recovery tool!#FireFlyRecovery #SharkTank #RecoveryDevice #SportsRecovery #Chiropractic #PhysicalTherapy #NormatecAlternative #AthleteRecovery #PTCHPodcast

We Asked A Plastic Surgeon The Questions Nobody Asks (Ft. Dr. Rick Green)

What if everything you thought about plastic surgery was wrong? 🔪A 30-year board-certified plastic surgeon reveals the truth about his industry—from ancient nose reconstructions to modern misconceptions.In this episode, Dr. Rick Green joins Dr. Jason Young (chiropractor) and Dr. Kathy Lynch (physical therapist) for an unfiltered conversation about plastic surgery that goes WAY beyond botox and facelifts.🎓 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:• The shocking 3,000-year history of plastic surgery (it started as PUNISHMENT)• The difference between cosmetic and reconstructive surgery (and why it matters)• What really happens on day one of medical school plastic surgery rotations• Why Dr. Green said "I don't want to be a plastic surgeon"—then changed his mind• The ancient Indian technique still used by surgeons TODAY• How a 13-hour infant skull surgery changed everything💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS:→ Plastic surgery ≠ vanity (reconstructive work makes up 50% of many practices)→ The "Tagliakotzy flap" from the 1500s is STILL used in modern rhinoplasty→ Board certification matters more than you think→ Yes, surgeons learn new techniques from YouTube (seriously)🎙️ ABOUT OUR GUEST:Dr. Rick Green, MD is a board-certified plastic surgeon practicing in Vancouver, Washington (the ORIGINAL Vancouver). With 30 years of experience and a practice split between cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, he brings a unique perspective that challenges the "fufu stuff" stereotype of plastic surgery. Fun fact: He played clarinet in the Notre Dame marching band and was in the stadium when they filmed the final scene of Rudy! Check out his website: https://salmoncreekps.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📢 THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BYBrain.FMMusic for your brain! Your subscription helps the PTCH Podcast.🔗 https://brain.fm/ptchpodcastTry free for 30 days!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🩺 ABOUT THE PTCH PODCAST:What happens when a chiropractor and physical therapist become best friends and start a podcast? Evidence-based health info with a side of humor. We break down complex health topics, interview experts, and prove that chiropractors and PTs CAN get along.Dr. Jason Young - Evidence-based chiropractor who uses humor just as much as adjustmentsDr. Kathy Lynch - Physical therapist helping people move better and get stronger━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH US:🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4WRdMdsnRaWsAbaUBDrMtw?si=a7eErDsFSz-0oiB0AxJQpQ🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ptch-podcast/id1805086823🌐 Website: https://ptchpodcast.com📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/ptchpodcast🎵 TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@ptchpodcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔔 SUBSCRIBE and hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode!New episodes drop weekly. Leave a comment: What's YOUR biggest question about plastic surgery?#PlasticSurgery #PlasticSurgeon #HealthPodcast #PTCH #MedicalMyths #Chiropractor #PhysicalTherapist

Stop Resting Your Injury (Do THIS Instead)

🚨 That "rest and take it easy" advice might be the reason you're still hurting. Dr. Jason Young and Dr. Kathy Lynch expose why the default prescription of rest is outdated, vague, and—for many people—genuinely making injuries worse. If you've ever rested an injury only to feel MORE broken afterward, this episode explains exactly what went wrong. **What You'll Learn:** • Why prolonged rest (beyond 48 hours) can actually cause MORE damage than the original injury • The psychological trap of rest: how fear of movement rewires your brain and creates chronic pain • How quickly deconditioning happens—and why "waiting it out" backfires • The critical difference between rest and recovery (they're NOT the same thing) • When rest IS appropriate—and exactly when to start moving again • Evidence-based recovery techniques that actually accelerate healing **Key Takeaway:** "The rest didn't help him recover. The rest WAS the injury." — Dr. Jason Young This isn't about pushing through pain recklessly. It's about understanding that your body was built to move, and strategic movement often heals faster than passive waiting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY: Brain.FM Music for your brain! Your subscription helps the PTCH Podcast. 🔗 https://brain.fm/ptchpodcast Try free for 30 days! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ **About The PTCH Podcast:** What happens when a chiropractor and physical therapist actually like each other? Dr. Jason Young (evidence-based chiropractor) and Dr. Kathy Lynch (physical therapist) bring you no-BS conversations about health, fitness, pain, and recovery. Slightly edgy. Always evidence-based. Zero fluff. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE & hit the bell so you never miss an episode! **Listen on your favorite platform:** 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4WRdMdsnRaWsAbaUBDrMtw?si=a7eErDsFSz-0oiB0AxJQpQ 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ptch-podcast/id1805086823 🌐 Website: https://ptchpodcast.com 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/ptchpodcast 🎵 TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@ptchpodcast #painrecovery #physicaltherapy #chiropractic #backpain #injuryrecovery #healthpodcast

NFL Team Chiropractor Reveals All (12 Seasons w/ Seahawks) - Jim Kurtz, DC

What happens if you crack a $40 million quarterback's back wrong on game day?Dr. Jim Kurtz, DC fortunately never found out despite spending 12 seasons as the Seattle Seahawks' team chiropractor, working through the Legion of Boom era, a Super Bowl championship, and roughly 30,000 plays where one wrong move could have ended his career. Today, he's telling us everything.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🕐 **TIMESTAMPS:**0:00 — What happens if you mess up on a $40M athlete?1:09 — Intro to the PTCH Podcast2:02 — How Jim got into chiropractic (ruptured Achilles story)3:33 — Why chiropractic over physical therapy?5:16 — "I have no original ideas" — stealing from the best6:54 — Jim's first pro sports gig: PGA Tour9:20 — The Tiger Woods effect on sports chiropractic15:00 — How Jim landed the Seahawks job24:30 — The Injury that almost ended it all29:10 — Dream Job40:09 — The one thing that would improve chiropractic46:12 — Game Time: Seahawks Trivia56:41— Take aways from this episode.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📸 **SCREENSHOT THIS — What Jim Learned in 12 NFL Seasons:**• A good chiropractor and good PT are "hard to distinguish"• Steal ideas from everyone — PTs, ATs, coaches• The rehab aspect changes lives more than any single adjustment• Autonomy matters — know why you chose your profession• Pro sports success = years of relationship building━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━👤 **ABOUT JIM KURTZ:**Dr. Jim Kurtz,DC is a retired chiropractor who spent 12 seasons as the team chiropractor for the Seattle Seahawks, including their Super Bowl XLVIII championship season. Before the NFL, he worked with USA Track and Field for 9 years and served on the PGA Tour sports medicine staff. His wife is also a chiropractor and acupuncturist — they practiced together for years with a shared focus on active care and rehabilitation.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📢 **THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY:****Brain.FM**Music for your brain! Your subscription helps the PTCH Podcast.🔗 https://brain.fm/ptchpodcastTry free for 30 days!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙️ **ABOUT THE PTCH PODCAST:**What happens when a chiropractor and physical therapist get together to make a health podcast? Dr. Jason Young, DC (evidence-based chiropractor) and Dr. Kathy LynchPT, DPT (physical therapist) prove that our professions have more in common than you think. Evidence-based, slightly edgy, always honest.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔔 **SUBSCRIBE** and hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode!🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4WRdMdsnRaWsAbaUBDrMtw?si=a7eErDsFSz-0oiB0AxJQpQ🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ptch-podcast/id1805086823🌐 Website: https://ptchpodcast.com📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/ptchpodcast🎵 TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@ptchpodcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#nfl #chiropractor #seahawks #physicaltherapy #sportsmed #superbowl #ptchpodcast

It's ILLEGAL To Die In This Town (And Other Insane Health Laws)

🚨 There's a town where DYING is literally against the law. And that's just the beginning. Dr. Jason Young (chiropractor) and Dr. Kathy Lynch (physical therapist) dig into the most absurd, bizarre, and brain-breaking health laws from around the world — laws so ridiculous you'll swear we made them up. Spoiler: we didn't. 🤯 WILD HEALTH LAWS WE COVER: * A Norwegian town that literally deports you if you're dying * Why the FDA said water can't be labeled "healthy" (but Lucky Charms can) * Switzerland's law against owning a single guinea pig * Singapore's prescription-only chewing gum policy * Italy's "don't get sick" ordinance * How chiropractic scope varies WILDLY by country * The weirdest vaccination laws on the planet Plus our takes on which of these laws actually make sense — and which ones are pure bureaucratic chaos. 📢 SPONSORED BY BRAIN.FMMusic engineered for your brain. Your subscription helps support the PTCH Podcast.Try free for 30 days: https://brain.fm/ptchpodcast [https://brain.fm/ptchpodcast] 🩺 ABOUT THE PTCH PODCASTWhat happens when a chiropractor and physical therapist actually get along? The PTCH Podcast. Dr. Jason Young (evidence-based chiropractor) and Dr. Kathy Lynch (physical therapist) break down health, fitness, and wellness with humor, honesty, and zero BS. Because there's no "I" in PTCH. 🔗 STAY CONNECTEDWebsite: https://ptchpodcast.com [https://ptchpodcast.com]Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ptch-podcast/id1805086823 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ptch-podcast/id1805086823]Instagram: https://instagram.com/ptchpodcast [https://instagram.com/ptchpodcast]TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@ptchpodcast [https://tiktok.com/@ptchpodcast] Enjoying the show? Tap follow and leave us a rating — it genuinely helps more curious humans find the podcast. Got a weird health law from your country? DM us on Instagram and we might react to it in a future episode.