The PTCH Podcast

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.

Grief Is More Than Death | Tori Geter, LCSW

Grief isn't just about death — and it doesn't follow a tidy 5-stage timeline. Licensed clinical social worker and grief counselor Tori Geter joins Jason and Kathy to talk about what grief actually looks like in real life: the delayed kind that ambushes you 20 years later, the ambiguous loss of watching a parent fade with Alzheimer's, the disenfranchised grief nobody acknowledges (pets, exes, jobs, mobility, your kid leaving for college, your daughter getting engaged). In this episode: * Why "just give it time" is terrible advice * Continuing bonds theory and the power of linking objects * Prolonged, delayed, ambiguous, anticipatory, and secondary grief — what they are and why they matter * How grief shows up in a chiropractor's office (and what every healthcare provider should be asking) * Why grief needs to be witnessed to be metabolized * What to actually say — and not say — to a grieving friend Plus: Kathy's mom, Jason's grandfather's Louisville Slugger above the front door, and a Mad Libs ad that somehow ends with an okapi in a Subaru Outback. Connect with Tori at https://torigeter.com 🎙️ The PTCH Podcast — evidence-informed conversations on health, healing, and being human.🌐 ptchpodcast.com | 👕 ptchpodcast.shop/swag

Single-Leg Strength: Why Unilateral Training Catches Weakness Bilateral Hides

Your barbell back squat is lying to you. Dr. Jason Young (DC) and Dr. Kathy Lynch (DPT) take on the New York Times article that finally validated what every PT and chiropractor already knew — bilateral exercises let your strong leg cover for your weak leg, and unilateral exercises tell the truth. We cover the 10-15% strength asymmetry that's normal, the 15%+ that predicts injury, why your glute medius matters more than your six-pack, and the unilateral exercises worth adding to your training: split squats, single-leg heel raises, hip airplanes, and single-arm kettlebell swings. Plus: why pistol squats matter more than you think (until the day you tear your ACL). Website: https://ptchpodcast.com [https://ptchpodcast.com]YouTube: https://youtube.com/@PTCHPodcast [https://youtube.com/@PTCHPodcast]TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@PTCHPodcast [https://tiktok.com/@PTCHPodcast]Instagram: https://instagram.com/PTCHPodcast [https://instagram.com/PTCHPodcast]Swag: https://ptchpodcast.shop/swag [https://ptchpodcast.shop/swag]

How to Know If Your Doctor Can Actually Help You (Before You Waste Time and Money)

How do you actually know if a healthcare provider can help you — before you've wasted six visits and hundreds of dollars? Google reviews won't tell you. Your neighbor's referral won't tell you. Even their credentials won't tell you.In this episode, Dr. Jason Young (chiropractor) and Dr. Kathy Lynch (physical therapist) break down exactly how to evaluate any provider — PT, chiropractor, orthopedist, massage therapist, or MD — before, during, and after your first visit. They share the exact questions to ask, the red flags that scream "run," and when it's time to break up with your provider (without being weird about it).If you've ever bounced between providers without getting better, this episode gives you the cheat codes.🔑 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📸 SCREENSHOT THESE QUESTIONS FOR YOUR NEXT APPOINTMENT:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"What do you think is going on, and how confident are you?""What does progress look like, and how will we measure it?""How many visits do you think this will take?""What would make you refer me to someone else?""What should I be doing between visits?"🚩 RED FLAGS TO WATCH FOR:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Treatment plan presented BEFORE examination• "I can handle everything" (no referral willingness)• Pre-sold visit packages (24 visits before they've seen you = business model, not healthcare)• Imaging on visit one for non-traumatic pain• Provider talks more than listens✅ GREEN FLAGS:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Provider asks about YOUR goals, not just symptoms• Acknowledges what they DON'T know• Gives you home exercises and self-management tools• Comfortable discussing referrals• Specific timeline with measurable progress markers━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📍 The PTCH Podcast is hosted by Dr. Jason Young (chiropractor) and Dr. Kathy Lynch (physical therapist). We cover health, fitness, chiropractic care, physical therapy, and evidence-based wellness — with humor and zero BS.🔔 Subscribe for new episodes weekly.#HowToPickADoctor #ChiropractorVsPT #HealthcareTips #FindingTheRightDoctor #BackPain #PhysicalTherapy #Chiropractic #PatientAdvocacy #HealthPodcast #PTCH