Why This Common Back Pain Treatment Gets a Pass (When Chiropractic Doesn't)

Why This Common Back Pain Treatment Gets a Pass (When Chiropractic Doesn't)

We ran a social media experiment: showed people a study with 132 trials, 7,900 patients, modest short-term relief, no long-term benefits, and serious complications. They called it "dangerous quackery." Plot twist: it wasn't about chiropractic. It was epidural steroid injections — the "real medicine" your doctor recommends after an MRI. Same weak evidence, completely different reaction. Today we're unpacking WHY. And what conservative care should look like 💉 KEY TAKEAWAYS: • 9 million epidural steroid injections performed yearly in the US • Evidence shows: decent for disability, NOT effective for pain • Short-term outcomes only: days to weeks of relief • Major guidelines place injections AFTER PT and chiropractic • Cost comparison: $2,000-5,000 per injection vs. conservative care • Same "low quality evidence" problem affects ALL back pain treatments 🔬 THE DOUBLE STANDARD: When a physician does it with a needle and fluoroscopy machine = "real medicine" When a chiropractor or PT does manual therapy = "pseudoscience" Same evidence quality. Different labels. Why? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 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) break down health, fitness, and pain science with humor and zero ego. Remember: there's no "I" in PTCH. 🎧 LISTEN EVERYWHERE: 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 📱 FOLLOW US: Instagram: https://instagram.com/ptchpodcast TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@ptchpodcast 👍 If this made you think twice about your treatment options, SUBSCRIBE and drop a comment with your experience! #BackPain #EpiduralInjections #Chiropractic #PhysicalTherapy #PainManagement #EvidenceBasedMedicine

Dr. Google Is In: We Answer the 10 Most Googled Pain Questions

You Googled your symptoms at 2 AM and now you're convinced you need spinal surgery, an MRI, and possibly a wheelchair. Sound familiar? Dr. Jason Young (chiropractor) and Dr. Kathy Lynch (physical therapist) tackle the most commonly searched pain questions on the internet — and separate the helpful information from the hysteria. **🔍 What You'll Learn in This Episode:** • Why "Dr. Google" often leads you down the wrong diagnostic path • The truth about the most searched back pain, neck pain, and knee pain questions • When you actually DO need imaging like an MRI (and when you definitely don't) • Red flags that genuinely warrant concern vs. normal symptoms that sound scary online • Evidence-based answers to questions like "Why does my back hurt?" and "Is my sciatica serious?" • How to be a smarter, calmer patient after your next late-night search session **📸 Screenshot This:** ✅ Most back pain does NOT require surgery ✅ Sciatica symptoms alone rarely indicate emergency ✅ "Degenerative disc disease" sounds worse than it usually is ✅ Your symptoms + Google ≠ accurate diagnosis **About the Hosts:** Dr. Jason Young is a chiropractor and Dr. Kathy Lynch is a physical therapist. Together, they cut through the noise with evidence-based, slightly edgy takes on health, fitness, and musculoskeletal care. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 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! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 **Listen on 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. #backpain #sciatica #physicaltherapy #chiropractor #healthpodcast back pain, sciatica, Dr Google symptoms, googling symptoms, why does my back hurt, do I need an MRI, chiropractor, physical therapist, low back pain, knee pain, neck pain, musculoskeletal pain, health anxiety, pain questions answered, evidence based health, PT vs chiropractor, should I see a doctor for back pain, degenerative disc disease, health podcast, PTCH podcast, Dr Jason Young, Dr Kathy Lynch, spine health, joint pain causes, when to worry about back pain

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

🔥 What if a $36 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