Doctor Answers Physical Therapy Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Board-certified orthopedic clinical specialist Dr. Courtney Mears joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about physical therapy. What's the relationship between physical therapy, physiotherapy, and sports medicine? How long does physical therapy last? Is it supposed to hurt the way it does? Does VR physical therapy exist? Is preventative physical therapy effective, or only after an injury? How do physical therapists help treat patients with pneumonia? How does yoga assist in physical therapy? Answers to these questions and more await on Physical Therapy Support.



0:00 Physical Therapy Support

0:16 How long does physical therapy last?

0:42 Is it supposed to hurt?

1:18 I was told there would be no math required

1:51 PT for a bad back

2:21 Physical Therapy: Home Edition

3:07 [splashing noises]

3:54 PT for the jaw?

5:00 Pinched nerves

6:11 Preventative physical therapy

6:42 MCL injuries

7:42 ELI5 OT vs PT

8:20 Physical therapy vs Personal training

8:50 Train that brain

9:48 VR PT

10:25 Blood flow restriction training

11:12 You’re gonna worry yourself sick

11:57 How do they always know

12:25 Ice or heat?

13:02 Cortisone

13:37 ELI5 Physical therapy, physiotherapy, and sports medicine

14:18 How much of physiotherapy is pseudoscience?

14:59 Bladder control/Pelvic floor after giving birth

15:43 Why physical therapy stretches are at times harder than lifting weights

16:05 Cupping

16:41 Mirror therapy

17:05 Physical Therapy: Origins

17:43 How do physical therapists help treat patients with pneumonia?

18:11 How does yoga assist in physical therapy?

18:52 Scar tissue that I wish you saw, sarcastic mister know-it-all

19:27 TENS machine

20:17 The Epley maneuver

20:48 This is over 40

21:42 Kinesio tape

22:18 Scoliosis

22:46 Phantom limb pain



Director: Jackie Phillips

Director of Photography: AJ Young

Editor: Richard Trammell

Expert: Courtney Mears

Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi

Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas

Production Manager: Peter Brunette

Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark

Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer

Camera Operator: Seth Craven

Sound Mixer: Gray Thomas-Sowers

Production Assistant: Doug Archibald

Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin

Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo

Additional Editor: Samantha DiVito

Assistant Editor: Andy Morell

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