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The PTCH Podcast
Hosted by Kathy Lynch, DPT and Jason Young, DC · EN
Do you ever wonder what happens when a chiropractor and physical therapist team up? Do chiropractors and physical therapists even like each other?! The PTCH (PT - for physical therapy and CH - for chiropractor) Podcast is hosted by Dr. Kathy Lynch, DPT and Jason Young, DC. It is a hilarious take on practical health and wellness topics. Expert guests from the worlds of sports, entertainment and health care join in to bring you solid health and wellness information in the funnest way possible. Remember, There’s no “I” in PTCH.
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Stop Resting Your Injury (Do THIS Instead)
May 2800:56:42Tap to summarize🚨 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 Kathy Lynch expose why the default prescription of rest is outdated, vague, and—for many people—genuinely making injuries worse.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 YoungThis 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.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 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
Transcribe →NFL Team Chiropractor Reveals All (12 Seasons w/ Seahawks) - Jim Kurtz, DC
May 2101:01:32Tap to summarizeWhat 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
Transcribe →It's ILLEGAL To Die In This Town (And Other Insane Health Laws)
May 1300:57:19Tap to summarize🚨 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 dyingWhy the FDA said water can't be labeled "healthy" (but Lucky Charms can)Switzerland's law against owning a single guinea pigSingapore's prescription-only chewing gum policyItaly's "don't get sick" ordinanceHow chiropractic scope varies WILDLY by countryThe weirdest vaccination laws on the planetPlus 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🩺 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.comApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ptch-podcast/id1805086823Instagram: https://instagram.com/ptchpodcastTikTok: https://tiktok.com/@ptchpodcastEnjoying 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.
Transcribe →Grief Is More Than Death | Tori Geter, LCSW
May 601:03:38Tap to summarizeGrief 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 adviceContinuing bonds theory and the power of linking objectsProlonged, delayed, ambiguous, anticipatory, and secondary grief — what they are and why they matterHow grief shows up in a chiropractor's office (and what every healthcare provider should be asking)Why grief needs to be witnessed to be metabolizedWhat to actually say — and not say — to a grieving friendPlus: 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
Transcribe →Single-Leg Strength: Why Unilateral Training Catches Weakness Bilateral Hides
Apr 2900:49:32Tap to summarizeYour 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.comYouTube: https://youtube.com/@PTCHPodcastTikTok: https://tiktok.com/@PTCHPodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/PTCHPodcastSwag: https://ptchpodcast.shop/swag
Transcribe →Blood Flow Restriction Training: Science, Safety & Gains
Oct 29Tap to summarizeIs cutting off your blood flow really the smartest way to get stronger?It sounds insane—but Blood Flow Restriction Training (BFR) might be the biggest game-changer in modern rehab and strength science.In this episode of The PTCH Podcast, Dr. Jason Young, DC, and Dr. Kathy Lynch, DPT, dive deep into how BFR training helps build muscle, accelerate recovery, and protect joints—all while lifting lighter weights. They’ll break down:What’s actually happening inside your muscles during BFRWhy it works for both athletes and injury rehab patientsCommon myths and mistakes people make with BFRHow safe it really is (and when it’s not)The science behind the “cheat code” for muscle growthFrom post-surgery rehab to elite sports performance, BFR is changing the way we think about strength training—and yes, there’s real research to back it up.🎙️ About The PTCH Podcast:A chiropractor (Jason) and a physical therapist (Kathy) team up to debunk health myths, explain the science of the human body, and make you laugh in the process. The information in this episode of The PTCH Podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. It should not be taken as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendation. Always talk with your licensed healthcare provider before starting or changing any exercise, therapy, or treatment plan. Dr. Jason Young, Dr. Kathy Lynch, and their guests are sharing general information—not personalized medical care.Get your PTCH Podcast swag: https://PTCHPodcast.shop/swag📍 Keywords: Blood Flow Restriction Training, BFR Exercise, BFR Therapy, BFR Rehab, Muscle Growth, Strength Training, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic, Sports Rehab, Exercise Science, Recovery, PTCH Podcast, Corvallis Chiropractor, Evidence-Based Training, Fitness Myths💪 Subscribe for more episodes that make health science make sense — and follow us wherever you get your podcasts.
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