welcome to the movement podcast this show is all  about movement giving you a better idea of how you can optimize the human body to be the best it  can be welcome back to the movement podcast we've uh we've been absent for quite a while hell have  you been I mean you know it wasn't a sabatical I'll promise you that um gray and I are excited uh  to kick this season off we've got a lot of things we're going to be getting into this entire season  and we have been working really hard on a lot of new things that I think will honestly great  remove the barriers in my opinion to entering

into our philosophy and methodology and when I say  remove the barriers you know you can consume our education in a multitude of ways you can you  know listen to the podcast you can go online go on YouTube we got a lot of quote unquote free  education out there and a lot of information out there that you can gather but when you really  want to get in the week and learn FMS we have our education and that education quite honestly  comes at a cost because it allows gray and I to do what we do um and then if you really want  to use our tools that's where it becomes you

know put it into practice how do I put this into  practice well really what we've been doing the last couple of years is expanding you know how we  look at movement and thinking what are the other thing things that look at movement and that gets  to Wellness and other lifestyle components that we've been talking about for years that's not  new but with the release of our Wellness course with the release of simeo our functional Wellness  screen we really have removed a lot of the as I call them barriers to start engaging more with our  philosophy no you and and a long long time ago a

bunch of us met in the kitchen at H Brook and Main  Street in Danville Virginia and off the clock we vetted the movement screen in about eight months  okay everybody's moved on and gone on you and I stayed on that journey and it's literally to me  felt like we're back in the kitchen because when you and I just finished our lecture tour of the  summer four different cities about a 100 people or more in the room just to hear us talk about our  precon show a hand shows about 70 to 75% saw us for the first time live now number one that tells  me that you guys are supporting us in in all the

media that we try to generate but what Lee was  talking about is we took a completely different approach to function than we've ever taken before  we learned from the movement screen that we can do less screens for less active people we also  learned from the movement screen that if you're going to completely train an athlete you got to  do some capacity capacity screens too but what we found out in the room is uh we're not even fixing  ourselves healthc care and fitness professionals strength conditioning professionals we're not  fixing ourselves because when we come to the room

uh and and you know you got me last last week for  saying this I Lee usually opens what we do but I walked out and it hit me in a very very important  way that I'm getting ready to lecture to you know 110 focused people looking right at me and they  have absolutely no idea that 25 years ago it used to take us about 15 minutes to movement screen  one person and 30 minutes from the time I started talking Lee already had everybody in the room  movement screened and actually did what I would call a bare minimum screen on the other seven  domains of support movement yeah and I I think you

hit on something gray that has been part of our  fundamental philosophy going back 25 some years and that's what's the minimum that you need what's  the minimum amount of data you need to make a decision we could argue all day about some of that  how much data you can collect well Le I need more you can always get more yeah you always it'd be  great to have more but let's be honest you're not getting any more time you're getting less people  sitting in front of you want to know what what are you going to do to fix them real time like now  people want now now now and the only way to really

do that is figure out all right what's the minimum  amount of information I can collect right now to then give you the best information about you  okay on what you need to do no and that's that's it it's it's and that by the way that statement  is stoicism at its best that's not a copout when you're thinking through with logic you've got  to take yourself to the worst case scenario and say how little information can I make the next  step with and so when Lee and I get in debates or panel discussions or whatever we know how to  optimize a situation right get out your checkbook

take a lot of time mark off your calendar because  it ain't going to happen quick but if I've got to answer your question about low back pain there's  a minimum of questions I got to ask you or all you're going to gets Google and Google's going  to tell you what the average consumption is it's not going to tell you what you specifically need  and so everybody wants a tailored situation but everybody wants to get that at General Buffet  prices and and including us right just give me the bullet but by going to that bare minimum  we don't have to argue anymore if you're going

to give me less than this I think I'd like to  withhold my opinion professionally because it won't be a responsible thing and so if people are  answering your health Fitness Wellness and even Sports conditioning questions without actually  sampling the two major things that are going to determine your outcome how recovered are you on  an average cycle and what kind of stress loads are you under they're basically just just reading you  something they read somewhere else in a general Forum or platform and so if you're truly going to  give unique information you've got to collect some

unique data but paralysis by analysis and a data  dump is not what we're talking about so I'm gonna give you an example here gray personal example and  that's why it's important to start with screening because what grade just described right there is  if you start with a screen and don't automatically start with this deep dive in assessing or  testing everything start with the screen determine what's a priority what is the number  one thing you need to focus on right now here's my story I go to the eye doctor um because I was  trying to get contacts order a new set of contacts

and the eye doctors figured it out you can't order  a new set of contacts without seeing them at least once a year so I have to go to the eye doctor so I  can get my new contacts right so I walk in and the I would argue technician takes me back and does  the typical screen of my eyes nothing invasive nothing crazy just can I read it literally the  eye chart been going to this same eye doctor for a few years can I read the eye chart I then sit down  and they take my blood pressure well they take the

blood pressure by sticking my little finger in the  thing and they do Bas basically just the easiest way to take your blood pressure my blood pressure  when they took it was 220 over 140 I didn't know that uh no you didn't did you reset those life  insurance policies for on each other I'm like I'm like whoa that seems a little off right there  and the technician freaks out walks out and like I don't want to be here when you pop yeah you know  this guy's getting ready to pop the eye doctor walks in and literally puts on the you know says  hey we need to check this out she asked me a few

questions and puts on the cuff takes the blood  pressure blood pressure is basically 125 over 82 so the techn may or may not have put it on right  it just didn't rewrite whatever the case is but it didn't rewrite my point is what's the biggest  priority it ain't my eyes it ain't the eye chart it's the blood pressure that she just took in  our profession that's how we need to look at things person walks in we need to check the boxes  taking my taking my blood pressure going into the eye doctors checking a box that technician that  put the thing on my finger and just did the most

basic form was just to check a box to make sure  I wasn't about to pop right once they figured out that okay this screening at the most fundamental  level picked up something now I need to go that direction and not that direction and that's what  we've been doing gray for for but we did it with movement well and and and we were surprised  at some of the initial resistance that we got because prior to what we did there's never been  a movement screen before and I could maybe argue that we probably didn't need one quite a while  ago because everybody had basic competencies

because we walk so much and we just did a lot more  physical labor than we do so the sheer friction of Life kept you functional enough not to have  the kind of risk factors that we're uncovering right now but we're putting total knees in 40y  olds we literally have kids and teenagers with balance disorders they don't know it unless  we check but this whole thing about screening movement I think just because of where we set in  our local Hometown in a clinic Sports Medicine Outreach General op pedics we saw repeat customers  and saw a pattern in them and we saw people who

got better and stayed better for a while and we  saw a patter in them and so we started trying to capture those pinch points I think one of the  let's let's be honest we were pretty good with exercise what we wanted to know is which one of  the exercises was the best choice just like a Min what's the what's the biggest number one  thing is going to have the biggest impact so if you don't know what to do seriously to fix  a left right balance asymmetry why would you screen it because if the screen says if this then  this if that then that and you only have glute

activation what if that doesn't change balance  that completely undermines your Paradigm because you tried to convert a movement problem to a quick  little exercise snippet but if you go back and recheck yourself what you'll see is many of the  exercises that are great for conditioning don't change movement quality many of the exercises that  are great for changing movement quality are not your workout they are your prep your warm-up so  with athletes what we've been doing for the last two years is saying all right nobody's got time  for correctives nobody's got time to fix their

shoulder Mobility asymmetry everybody's focusing  on the thing we got a 15minute warm-up and what you just said about your eye visit is  something I'm going full circle the minute you ping the blood pressure screen that's  a Vital sign okay your eyes can be cloudy today that's not going to kill you we that's  a risk factor of your vision is declining so what actually happened at that place is their  initial screen was for Vital Signs just to make sure that you're ready and we're examining a  normal person not a person in distress or acute

stress okay the minute they resolve the fact that  you're ready for testing we moved on with it and you either got issued the same prescription or  an upgrade for your eyes now if we apply those two words what is your screen for are they ready  but what is your screen for do they have future risk and if I can basically look at the exercise  the way we've been doing it for the last year and a half I'm basically taking the warm-up the prep  the calibration and I'm getting a general warm-up meaning a better state of Readiness how do we  know that well their body temperature went up

their flexibil is improved their asymmetry is  improved and their balance is improved grip strength will give you another one but they're a  little bit more ready than they were five minutes ago secondly if we can aim that warmup at your  t-spine mobility and my ankle Mobility wow we just handled Readiness for today and chipped  away a little investment for RIS tomorrow would a whole corrective session change movement better  yeah that ain't going to happen we're realistic minimum effective dose if you're out there with  athletes right now thinking through the warm-up

and Lee and I are going to show you how to do  this in just a minute and then realizing all right we got to get them ready but most of my guys  are really tight hips this year and I don't know why or everybody's having a hard time with that  forward bin hip hinge toe touch or we got a lot of asymmetrical shoulders because we're a throwing  sport you can actually do a two for one and can actually measure it and that that's a pretty  cool and convenient thing because in the early days of movement screening and fixing the things  you find we literally you know almost had to pull

people away from their workout that's not popular  but it worked stop doing the bad thing start doing the good thing you get better but we realize  Life is In Parallel we can modify your workout change your warm-up add in some stuff that doesn't  even look like correctives but it is and measure a better result and we've we really that's what  our Focus has been really from day one but what we've learned during that journey is that we  have to really look at all these other risk factors that impact movement which led us to the  functional Wellness screen which is really one of

the things we've been working on the last couple  weing a along before the last couple years but great if you think about the last couple years  we've done eight different courses we've put out eight courses over the last couple years and  that's the things we've been working on which takes us a little bit unable to come out and do  these podcast and sets us up in my opinion to be able to have a better conversation um in these  environments that we want to do and going back and let's just kind of segue right into what we  really want to talk about today is a lot of this

data that we were able to pick up on looking at  what should be the Premier Fit people in the world and that's the healthc care providers as well  as Fitness professionals strength conditioning performance you know that whole buck plus we have  a lot of physical therapists chiropractors medical providers that come in to see healthcare providers  that come to these perform better Summits as well as Fitness and strength conditions performance  people You' like to think we are the one of the most healthy populations around but what we found  gray when we Des what gray just described we go to

these things with simeio our functional Wellness  screen SEO platform you can screen yourself we went in and we screened the what we determine is  the eight most important areas in your Wellness in 15 minutes with a group of 125 people so I've  got the data right here we want to talk about this data and what it tells us and it tells us if  you're a professional you need to start taking care of yourself a little bit more making yourself  maybe more of a priority and we're not saying that as a cliche I think we all just humans we need to  put ourselves first but I think in our profession

we tend to get so consume with helping other  people yeah that we forget that you know what maybe we need to help ourselves and and it it  hits you pretty hard I guess what we're getting preparing you guys for is exactly what we went  for the last five years if you hear yourself say something to a patient that you're currently not  doing then there's a bit of a lack of Integrity that just sort of seeps out of you but if you're  doing it there's a bit of Integrity that seeps out of you and uh we were just talking about those  eight domains if we take a functional approach a

bare minimum approach the movement screen that  we're doing for wellness is way easier faster and more convenient than a functional movement  screen and we actually did that Wellness screen on a room full of fitness health care and strength  conditioning professionals and what we found and I would think if we conducted parallel Fitness  tests we had a room that is probably two notches above the average level of Fitness but exactly  the same Wellness as the rest of the world is the rest of the country and that that means your  culture is influencing your lifestyle even though

your job may be be in exercise Rehabilitation or  health care you're not any better at self-care than the people you're training worse you're  fitter because you got more sets reps and and you get on the treadmill or you try to keep your  biceps uh pumped up a little bit but ultimately sleep problems movement pain shallow breathing  uh Nutri IAL awareness not nearly as bad in that group as it could be say in a college group or  you know somebody who's not not in touch with that past medical history issues unaddressed uh  Behavioral Health um most of them got activity

level covered and that's why I made that statement  they're highly active but no more well and no more protected than somebody who's less active which  actually means not protected more exposure let's just let's just go through the data okay let's  just tell you what we are finding now we've got about over 6,000 data points or users in our  database at this point that's significant and again this data is self-reported so people going  through the movement screen or going through a movement screen plus lifestyle components all the  things gray just mentioned and out of the roughly

275 people we tested well I'm looking at the  data 272 people 96 are in the high-risk category roughly 40% 38% are in that high-risk category now  what does that mean that means that based off of the best evidence and the algorithms that we've  proven using FMS using movement using Y balance using lifestyle components you are more likely  than not to have a muscular skeletal problem all right and we got there we got there by screening  each domain but it's not what you think a sleep survey can put you in a risk category for your  sleep I don't need a wearable I don't need a

sleep study I don't need a lab we have proven  that a survey of your sleep habits and the way you feel is creates just enough question to say  we should go deeper same thing with breathing a simple breathhold test in a few of our criteria  at least scratch the surface to say most people who test like this have an issue that should be  vetted and most people that pass this probably this isn't their biggest problem so of these let's  say roughly 40% of these healthc care remember who the population is these are Professionals in the  health care and health and wellness world let's

just say that right 40% are in this bucket  38 40% are in this bucket of high risk which means which means they've got pain in multiple  movement patterns so not just one multiple one painful pattern will'll put you in what we look  at is a moderate category now 70% are in the high and moderate category so you're talking about a  significant po part of the population in this in this sample size which is a pretty significant  sample size different parts of the world excuse me different parts of the US so we looked at  Florida we're up in the Northeast Midwest out

in the West Coast getting this sample size and  it is pretty representative in my opinion now so paining in multip patterns pain from an injury  that you haven't seen someone for so you could have pain but if you tell us that you're actually  seeing or under the care of a physician you're not going to be in that highrisk category so we're  taking the you're being monitored and managed so right so you don't we're not going to say you're  being monitored and manag you're okay we're not saying you're okay but we're not going to put  you in that category so we are really drilling

down so knowing kind of the back end of that gray  knowing who we're talking about it's significant meaning and here's the other thing we know we  know that if you're in this high risk not only are you heading to a problem more times than not  you can't diyi it you can't do it yourself to get out of that high-risk category you need some help  no that and and that that is an important factor I think for professionals to embrace first because  it's a business opportunity but it's a different kind of business opportunity because you're not  really issuing a treatment for somebody's Wellness

like you would an acne medicine a a wellness is  a lifestyle habitual behavioral change and that's why drug companies make so much money don't change  your behavior Lee just go ahead and get gout and then take this uric acid medicine and neutralize  that or keep eating a Kentucky Fried Chicken but don't forget to take your statins nobody ever  tells you to modify your behavor Behavior as eloquently as they tell you how to take your  medicine and your medicine is protecting you from the actual results of your own bad behavior  so we have a little bit of Disconnect between that

but one of the things that I think is important  is Lee and I aren't just saying if all of these risk factors are present in your client in your  athlete or in your patient when you're finishing up with them that they're going to instantly have  another injury what we're saying is your risk factors for having a problem or not achieving any  of your goals are equally risky meaning if you've got a weight loss goal for somebody in a high risk  category it's not going to happen you will not be able weight loss is not the priority for that  person no but if the only reason they're coming

to you is weight loss make that the priority  and say these three dominoes need to fall so that will work but still though if you're in that  highrisk category you're in that highrisk category not because you could argue yes because you're  overweight but there's other things that you got to address first in order to help this person lose  weight so weight loss is not the priority the way a professional should be so look if you come to  me with this highrisk category what does that tell me that tells me first because this is a screen  right it's a screen no different than me going to

the doctor the eye doctor and them saying Oh your  eyes aren't the biggest problem when you come in if you're looking to lose 20 pounds and you're in  the high-risk category I as a professional need to go further I need to now say all right weight loss  we're going to put a pin in that but let's dive in to see why are you in this high-risk category  remember a screen only gives you Direction doesn't tell you ultimately the problem you as  a professional need to dive a little bit deeper but now I went from I went instead of making this  decision I've now made this decision and now I've

got to dive deeper but for looking at some of this  data far in a way the biggest problem two of the biggest areas is sleep and Behavioral Health now  if the person comes in and they have a behavioral health problem and they got a sleep problem well  don't you think those two are related and don't you think trying to address maybe the behavioral  health and do giving them some strategies and again having that conversation right is weight  loss tied to behavioral health problems of course it is yeah but again it's giv you more insight  and more Direction on where you need to take the

conversation as much as anything for a person who  is triggering behavioral health and out of the 272 we got 103 people that trigger Behavioral Health  is something that needs to be focused on we got 43 people that says sleep needs to be something  that needs that needs to be focused on and and there's an important thing here when when we  came up with a movement screen it's not like if we could have done it with one movement pattern  we would have cuz that was easier and we were dumb and we were lazy and we' have taken the same  out that anybody else wants I want it cheaper and

easier and faster and I want to look smarter while  I'm doing it good that's a fairy tale um we wound up is the bare minimum we could do for athletic  Readiness I think was about seven patterns okay now when people want to really talk about changing  themselves or getting rid of one of these risk factors the majority of people that we did cluster  around a sleep problem now does that mean we're going to generally get everybody on a Temperpedic  mattress and tell them to quit watching blue screens we know the general ways to protect your  sleep but a high percentage of these people were

in pain a higher percentage had a behavioral  health problem anxiety depression I don't know what it is but they got something going on can  pain or anxiety or depression interfere with your sleep we've got breathing problems and we've got  some BMI problems can they interfere with sleep so my whole point is it'd be real easy to have a  movement screen with a deep Squat and everybody who can't get your exercise and everybody who can  get something different it's not like that some of these people aren't sleeping for different reasons  well well gr let's take let's take it to now let's

get into our wheelhouse movement all right you  look over to the movement side and we do five test we look at your ability to we look at shoulder  Mobility your toe touch your squat your balance and oh rotation now you just said the FMS say  seven test this is a little bit less stressful I will say because this is Wellness this is checking  the things that you do every day can you reach can you touch your toes can you squat what's Mobility  like so we don't need to get and stress you at a little bit higher level if you're an athlete or  you're looking to engage higher levels of activity

we need to do that back to my point the number  one Far and Away the biggest problem with this group across all groups shoulder Mobility so gray  now let's take that and let's unpack that a little bit shoulder Mobility is the biggest problem now  flip over to think about the lifestyle Behavioral Health and sleep don't you think all those are  connected I do and and I will be honestly as a physical therapist you tell me that you got hip  problems hip mobility problems I'm going look at your low back and you tell me you got shoulder  problems and I'm going to look at your neck I'm

hoping not to find a problem because I'd much  rather work on a shoulder than a C5 nerve root rotator cuff tear blah blah blah but the level of  complexity is going on these people are probably shallow breathers way more upper trap than lower  trap okay they're they're probably um in some degree of even though they're fit people there's  a lot of lot of sedentary activity I mean physical therapists sit and charart a lot and stuff like  that so my point is these are people who have resources to clear up their own Mobility stability  problems and pain and they've given up or healthc

care is not helping them and they can only foam  roll but so much so the the picture we're painting here with this group and these are professionals  health care providers Fitness providers strength condition professionals large majority have  shoulder problems large majority have a lot of stress and anxiety and aren't sleeping so how  do you attack that so if this was a I mean we're talking about 272 people here generally speaking  if I was just going to give a blanket program to this group it's handling your stress breathing  doing some basic stuff for upper body Mobility

which and then some basic advice on sleeping  better which maybe for this group may be different positions to sleep in yep and the one other thing  that I did is is at the end of this thing when we had all these health and fitness professionals and  we sized them up Lee and I walked across the hall and put them literally in one of our flows it  was modified it's right up on YouTube right now called a symmetry flow I picked that one because  Lee looked at me and said the majority of this room has a shoulder problem but if I look under  that I see breathing problems in balance problems

and then always got the Sleep problem all right I  think I got something for that so since they had a shoulder Mobility problem we have a test that  is so ridiculously simple and lines right up the FMS it's a paper pass right behind your back I  said bring your paper over here we did a 15minute little movement thing it stressed their balance  their symmetry their shoulders and their breath I think 2third of the room pass their paper better  meaning they improve their shoulder Mobility on the Fly believe it or not they improved their  balance too because they were really struggling

to do that those people who improve that quickly  I can take one more step did you actually change your tissue or did you just dump a lot of  unnecessary muscle tone from listening a gray and Lee sit there and talk for two hours we dump  tone now since you have a sleeping problem since you had a shoulder problem since you had a balance  and breathing problem what if you did this thing before bed obviously it'd be a great warmup for  the activity that you're doing but what if you did this before bed because then I asked the room a  question how many of you guys would love a massage

right before you go to sleep and the whole room  raise their hand I'm like okay that's never going to happen next best thing stretch a little bit  and if it doesn't affect your sleep then you're not obligated to do it but if you're in a way to  track your own sleep or a wearable or any other metric that you'd use to say you know I just feel  a little bit better today even if it's not bags under your eyes maybe we can repeat that activity  and see if we have a cumulative effect effect so this is the elegant way I think we can really  have a bare minimum intervention in somebody's

lifestyle now if just doing a tension dump that's  movement specific breathing specific before bed helps your sleep well we've already given you a  above a bunch of other good General sleep advice you packed this specific thing on top of that now  we're getting somewhere you're becoming aware that you're carrying far more tension than you're able  to dump and even if you went on your F mile job today apparently you didn't dump the tension okay  so psychologically you might need the run but add this tension dump to it and maybe you'll get the  benefit of the wellness effect too yeah the other

the other thing to this is is the people that you  don't need to worry about right so the flip side it's all you know as professionals we must focus  on the people that are in the high risk moderate risk what are their problems unpack it give them  better advice get them a little bit more into the lower risk category and as long as we're moving  in the right direction the one thing you know and looking at this data and looking at how we're  trying to use this Wellness information we know as humans we're going to fluctuate somay is going to  be better than others and whether you gray loves

wearables the whe whether you're into wearables  and you're keep an eye on that or whether you get on here and do some of these not all of these  questionnaires not all of this information maybe you're just looking at balance maybe just looking  at the paper pass knowing that every day is going to give us something a little bit different  and you may be more stressed out today than than you were last week you may be traveling you  may be sleeping in a hotel not getting much sleep whatever the case is it's going to go up and down  but if we can keep the trend going a little bit

more up than down that's all we need to think  about and that's that's why we try to make this as simple as we can this is something we want to  make really really simple and I would argue gray for you that's what wearables do for you you just  keep a guy keep an eye on the gauges and making sure you're not trending down and sometimes  obviously we're going to Trend we're going to go down some but let's keep that Trend going up  and that's the other thing we're trying to bring to this well how I got to wearables Simo proved to  me that sleep was my biggest problem okay activity

level wasn't my biggest problem my second biggest  problem was pain in a few patterns sleep and pain play off of each other I can track my pain I'm  pretty good at that that's my profession I really didn't understand sleep personally I understood  the physiology of sleep but I didn't understand how deep a hole I was in now my wife told me  and you've noted the fact that I can't sleep on the road when we're traveling and stuff like  that so I get a little cranky and over caffeinate but literally the wearable has kept me in check  and I know it's it's not a set of training wheels

I literally have invested in the things that help  me sleep better I I've learned little less alcohol is a benefit little less late nights is a benefit  consistent wake time in the morning is a benefit nose strip is a benefit cold room is a benefit so  the I did I don't necessarily make everybody wear a wearable but my whole point is if your biggest  problem is in something that can be tracked for a couple hundred dollars you're going to spend  that much on your next freaking medication and if you think about you know part of what we're  part of our goal here you've said it I've said

it we all if you're a professional you know this  it is about behavioral change and your lifestyle even movement is based a lot of your lifestyle  and your environment it's about awareness first step if you're going to have behavioral change  create awareness that's all this little screen is set up to do create some awareness about your own  individual current status where am I today and I think and I don't want to get down that rabbit  hole about where that's confus people when we talk about movement because people in the movement  Screen World some of the CR criticism is like you

know I screened you today but next week I screen  you and you're different and you you're worse well if movements of behavior it's a lot of other  factors that we're trying to capture now that we weren't capturing 20 years ago 15 years ago my  point here by looking at as awareness and making it simple keeping your eyes on it but also knowing  exactly because that's the other part of what we do here is we gives you really some very simple  basic strategies recommendations on what your problem is and I think that's the other big thing  I could take these 272 people and give you a quote

unquote wellness program which is what most people  already know most people know you need to sleep better you need to um exercise I know I maybe need  to Str stretch a little bit more whatever the case is everybody around the world knows it and if you  just slap 272 people and give them a Wells program you're not going to have a lot of Engagement but  if I can tell you what you personally need that hopefully will create a little bit more engagement  no and like I said we the offer is to you guys too

take this little Wellness thing because I don't  care how fit you are it's going to catch something if it needs to be caught we've done this on D1  athletes and and it's amazing how much it lines up with much more invasive tests like an FMS a ybt  uh full muscular skeletal and the D1 athletes did better than the professionals yeah generally  speaking yep which is surprising yeah then the professionals that are guiding them yes okay  well a little bit older got more baggage but my whole point is when you going to deal with it when  you're older you know so it's it's it's really has

been both where my personal life and profession  come together I'm actually in a position now where my profession that I doing is helping my own  personal lifestyle and I honestly think that on the other side of investing in your own Wellness  you become smoother talking about wellness and and I told this story in the room and and I've  been treating my patients uh past year year and a half with some version of this Wellness screen  right and it's so simple and so easy and I can get some of my patients to do it before they come in  and one of my patients is a candidate for a spinal

fusion but he's got a lot of other stuff going  on too and uh I basically you know he said do you think I should get a low back fusion and I said  I'd make that decision 35 pounds from now i' have never said that before because I was raised by  Reverend and Mrs Lynwood cook and I'm a southern gentleman and you just don't talk to people  about their weight and stuff like that this guy's talking to me as a professional he ain't talking  to me in the church parking lot so I know he can lose weight I know he can eat eat better I know  he can sleep better I know he can breathe better

this ain't a good time to make a decision on an  elective surgery you're going to be a horrible candidate for rehab and let me just say this  straight out this protects me I am I am ultimately every day worried about my professional reputation  and the kind of quality of work I do if you don't follow my advice I have a tracking module for that  but if you show up with way more risk factors than I've calc Cal at in I'm not going to hit the  mark you are not going to be feeling better by the time I projected cuz I didn't know you were  going through a divorce I didn't know you had a

pin in your ankle and I didn't know you were only  sleeping two hours a night now sometimes I can get to that in the history but you'd be surprised  how many times a little app in the privacy of your own home makes you talk a little bit cleaner  about the real lifestyle you got so don't anybody get this wrong if you are as concerned about  your professional reputation as me then I want my predictions and projections and programs to hit  the freaking mark their goal their diagnosis their problem is 50% of the equation the risk factors  they bring to that problem are the other 50% of

that equation and if you're not looking at risk  factors start doing it on yourself then do it on a close group of people that you trust their  feedback and slowly onboard it into your practice because that's exactly what I was going through  when I wrote the business of movement the business of movement ain't about exercise no more it's  literally about reading the dashboard that that you and I are trying to create so people can use  self-care not just home exercise program to to fix themselves it's made me a better therapist because  it's actually given me the professional attitude

I'm not a sleep expert I'm not a nutrition expert  but I know the for most inflammatory foods on the planet and I know how much you can sleep and not  hurt yourself I know how little you can sleep and not hurt yourself so if you're under both those  marks if you're eating an inflammatory diet and sleeping less than required for good healing  I don't have to be an expert we can try a few things to help it or I can send you to one either  way your back pain is going to take a little bit longer than everybody else's around here because  of the baggage you brought but I'm invested but

you got to take your risk factors as seriously as  you do your l45 discern and and one thing you you hit on there we all have a little baggage it's how  much baggage do you have we all got a little bit of stress we all are battling trying to make sure  we're exercising getting enough sleep drinking enough water eating right we're all doing that  and we all have a little bit of problems here and there it's how much baggage do you have and  if you get to a certain point that your baggage is adding up that's where you're going to be  that's where it becomes a slippery slope and

that's what we're doing that's why you know if  I've got pain pain in my shoulder okay great or not great but you got some pain in your shoulder  fine if I got pain in my shoulder pain in my knee pain in my back again that's more and more baggage  same with your lifestyle all right my my shoulder hurts I'm not sleeping right I've got a behave i'  got a lot of stress in my life and oh by the way I'm not eating very well well then that's a lot of  baggage and that's that's the thing we're trying to hit on as we look at overall wellness and not  just to say everything's bad you know or excuse

me everybody's in a bad place because they've  got one little problem no we all got a little problem here and there just don't have a lot and  and I think to to just kind of put a bow on this or wrap this up you know we definitely invite you  to do this I mean this we designed this as a as a way for anyone to be able to do quick and easy at  home and again it is self-reported so the question I've gotten well how many people can cheat well  you're cheating yourself it's your test these are your results this is what you need this these are  the things that you need to focus on so definitely

invite you to go on um and try it out yeah try  this with a few clients or athletes if you guys want to sort of reexamine your own personal  perspective to Wellness I think this this this app seio is going to help you do it if you're  inspired by that and you want to take it back to your practice that's what I wor the business  of movement for this is the secret tool that I was talking around in that in that whole book I it  was already in play and I was actually becoming a different movement practitioner as I was writing  that book simply because I was being given more

information more assets and it literally helped  because you know if you have a sleep problem and a pain problem I don't have to fix your pain I just  got to get you sleeping better now I'll know how much of this is pain and how much of this is being  highly inflamed with a lot of cortisol so it it is really simpler and easier but don't take this to  your worst patient client or athlete right away just like we used to say about the movement screen  do it to yourself if you work in a business it's

a great team building effort if you have a few  trusted clients patients or athletes try their first um otherwise it's glad to be back it's I'm  glad to be back it's good to be doing new stuff with you guys I'm I'm actually inspired because  we're coming at it the same old way function means is it good enough and if it's not good enough  the way we talk about it we don't just run at people and say you're dysfunctional we just say oh  your sleep's out of balance let's get that Back in Balance hey your shoulders out of balance let's  get that Back in Balance and it winds up being a

positive opportunity even though behind the scenes  we know it's risk we know they're not going to hit their goal if they don't do the right thing we  talk about the advantages and the opportunities and the really easy stuff that that we have  nowadays like wearables that literally cost less than most of your medications seriously so next  time somebody's you know debating whether to get a wearable or not a dashboard for the important  things in your life or something else to cover it up which are you doing by the way looks like  you've been on a yacht all summer and I've been

at the farmer farm so uh if you're watching us  on YouTube we got Yacht Rock over there and Duck Dynasty over here thanks guys thanks that will do  it for this episode of the movement podcast thanks for listening and if you liked what you heard  please take a minute and subscribe and review if you want to learn more about our system and  take the next step in your own movement Journey visit us at movement pod.com until next time be  sure to First move well then move off [Music] [Music]