Walt Fritz, PT’s Podcasts, Videos, and Articles
Over the past few years I’ve been fortunate enough to participate in a number of podcasts and interviews that are available for listening. They range from voice/swallowing-specific, to more general interviews that speak to various aspects of the manual therapy work that I teach. Strongly represented are principles of the patient-centered model, shared decision-making, a blended multifactorial-explained model, all of which move forward from older tissue-specific models of manual therapy. Also included are published articles I’ve written to better define this work.
Join me as I talk with Kari Ragan and a NATS Chat: Discovering Your Voice: Stretching Tips to Expand Your Range (and Mind).
Rob Klienberg, PT, invited me to an interview for his website, Rock the Recovery. Our talk centered around my history at a physical therapist and my creation of the Foundations in Manual Therapy: Voice and Swallowing Disorders seminar. You can read the interview here.
I’ve been a long time admirer of The Thinking Practitioner podcast, and the work of Whitney Lowe and Til Lucau. Til asked me to chime on dealing with chronic cough with a real patient, in this case massage and manual therapy educator Ruth Warner. You can watch the podcast here on YouTube.
I was honored to be asked by Judy Rodman, renown performer and vocal coach, to talk about my work on her podcast, All Things Vocal.
- Eric Purves, RMT, asked me to appear on his podcast, “Purves Versus”, where we discussed the importance of finding an acceptable balance in our understanding, our communication and how we teach continuing education. Our treatment interventions aren’t always just about one tissue or a special technique, they are more complex than that and the outcomes people experience are more strongly related to the strength of the therapeutic relationship. You can listen to our talk at this link.
- Brett Kane had me as a guest on his 21st Century Vitalism podcast. Our conversation included:
SHOW TOPICS
Following Evidence Based Practice
The Power of Placebo and Nocebo
How the Therapeutic Relationship Creates Change
Shared Decision Making in a Therapeutic Setting
Is Pain Neurological or Structural?
Touch and Emotions
Why Being an ‘Expert’ Might Not Be Ideal
The Benefits of Not Knowing in a Therapeutic Setting
- Discussing Person-Centered Model Approaches of Manual Therapy for SLPs. I had the pleasure to again be interviewed by Wilson Nice, SLP, on her Nice Speech Lady podcast on shared decision-making and how it applies to the SLP.
- I teach my manual therapy for voice and swallowing disorders seminars in person and online. This includes a hybrid one-on-one version of the Introductory and Advanced classes taught in my Upstate New York office. Thanapat Yartcharoen (Film) is a vocal coach from Thailand who had taken my Introductory Foundations in Manual Therapy: Voice and Swallowing Disorders and Balancing the Body classes on previous visits to the United States. On this visit, he spent two days in my clinic, where we worked through the extensive content of the Advanced class in a one-on-one setting. Film asked to film a post-class interview for his Thai vocal performing clientele and was kind enough to share the video with me.
- Takeaways from manual therapy: At the recent class in Eugene, Oregon, I sat down with Melody Sheldon, ClinScD., CCC-SLP, to talk about the class for her podcast, Speech Plus so much more. You can listen below.
Join me as I speak to the hosts of The Agent Voice, for a talk on power imbalances in the therapeutic setting.
- In a repeating theme of mutual respect, Stephen King and I got together once again to talk about what it means to be an evidence based, shared decision maker in manual therapy. You can watch the talk here on YouTube.
- Based on overlapping concepts and ideas, the orofacial myology and myofunctional community have been regular attendees at my live workshops. I was honored to be interviewed by Brittny Sciarra, RDH, on her Eye Spy With My Myo Eye podcast. You can watch the entire interview here.
- I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the BAST website (Be A Singing Teacher), with the topic, UNDERSTANDING MANUAL THERAPY. You can listen to the podcast from this link. We also did a bit of hands-on exploration that can be viewed here.
- Crossing the Chasm, when it comes to transitioning to a new system of beliefs, seems a rite of passage for many in the therapeutic communities. The Chasm, in this case, refers to the well of uncertainty regarding how we explain our various work. In manual therapy, the Crossing often refers to moving from older, historical views of tissue-based or pathology-based explanations into updated and multifactorial explanations. My leap was gradual, and I explain how the process went in this interview. Though presented from a physical therapist’s perspective, the evolutionary process is faced by many, be they massage therapists, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, and more. Jamie Johnston, RMT interviewed me for his MTDC Community. Give it a watch here.
- Australia-based Dr. Marissa Lee Naismith had me on her “A Voice and Beyond” podcast, where we spoke of how manual therapy and touch-based cueing overlap and how the voice coach can integrate aspects of manual therapy into their practice. You can listen directly at Dr. Naismith’s website, or connect with the many podcast platforms here.
- I was there for Episode #22 of Theresa Richard’s Swallow Your Pride podcast, where I dive into dysphagia, from a manual therapy perspective, and I’m back in Episode 215, Mastering Manual Therapy. You can listen here.
- Wilson Nice, host of the Nice Speech Lady website, has been kind enough to host me for a number of interactions, including a video interview and what has become, to me, a seminal article on tissue specificity, Anatomy Matters, but Which Anatomy? In another article, I discuss the SLP’s role in the use of manual therapy (as well as another one here), as well as Wilson’s personal experience participating in my live seminar. We’ll finish with a written interview Wilson and I made a few years ago. You can also hear us discuss a few new papers that pertain to manual therapy and the SLP. We unpack and article on tongue intervention and another on posture. You can watch the interview here.
- Interview with Rachel Lynes, from UK-based The Sing Space, where we talk of manual therapy’s usefulness with the singer and include a bit of self-treatment. Link
- Juliette Caton, from the UK Podcast Vocal Scope, and I spent some time speaking to the role of manual therapy and the performing voice. Link
- On the UK-based Naked Vocalist podcast, hosted by Steve Giles and Chris Johnson, I spent some time talking about manual therapy’s purpose in voice and performance, as well as moving through some self-care routines. Link
- I joined Rani Lill Ajum, P.hD. in philosophy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Stephen King, UK-based vocal coach and vocal massage therapist, for an hour-long talk about complexity and causation in the manual therapy patient. Complexity; simplified.
- Stephen King and I sat down to talk about skepticism, tongues, and omohyoids. Link
- I was asked by the National Spasmodic Dysphonia (SD) Association to write an article on manual therapy’s potential use with SD. Link
- After attending one of my Voice and Swallowing Disorders in New York City, massage therapist/educator Beret Kirkeby wrote a review of her experience. Link
- At the request of the Association of Massage Therapists (Australia), I wrote an article on The Vocal Athlete (nods to Marci Daniels Rosenberg and Wendy Leborgne!) Link Similarly, I wrote a similar article for the Massage New Zealand Magazine titled, Myofascial Release/Massage with the Vocal Athlete. Link
- Watch a few videos of laryngeal manual therapy being expelled externally, with FEES views internally here, here, and here.
- Join me on the Healing Ground Podcast with Dr. Carly for our talk on Voice and Swallowing Disorders and integrating a patient-centered model into manual therapy interventions. You can catch the podcast at this link.
- Robert Gardner II, LMT and online educator, sat down for another one of our talks. This time about the common denominators in Manual Therapies and Massage. You can catch the whole interview here.
- Daniel Pablo Albillo, from the Australian-based Knowledge Exchange, and I talk about the biopsychosocial aspects of manual therapy. Link
- A video podcast with Matt Phillips of the UK-based Sports Therapy Association. Link
- On their podcast Pain Reframed, Liz Peppin and Jeff Moore take me down the rabbit hole of manual therapy’s tawdry image regarding its place next to exercise in the physical therapy profession and how it has a place in today’s market. Link
- Scott Dartnall and I sat down for a longer talk on the concept of Mastery and some of the problems with that term and concept as they apply to those using manual therapy as an intervention. Link
- Mark, from 2 Massage Therapists and a Microphone, and I discussed all things MFR, unpacking much of the BS from the tissue-based beliefs of the MFR (and other) communities. Link
- My friend Robert Gardner and I have done a number of podcasts together, including one on entrepreneurship, the science behind manual therapy/MFR, and pain science.
- Haley Winter allowed me a number of podcasts on his How’s the Pressure podcast, with a longer format interview on what was, at that time, my version of MFR. You will also find my input on a variety of topics relevant to the massage and physical therapist scattered throughout a number of other interviews on his website.
- Nick Ng, from Massage & Fitness Magazine, and I sat down after a teaching trip to Hong Kong to discuss my approach to manual therapy. Link
- Robert Libbey, RMT, and I sat down for a talk that began with my hand (surgery) and drifted into some mutually agreeable topics on narratives and education in manual therapy. Link
- Dr. Joe Muscolino interviewed me for his website, Learn Muscles, on being an educator. Link
- For the Massage New Zealand Magazine, I wrote a referenced article on Shared Decision-Making in the Manual Therapies. Link
- Seeing one’s work reach those in need is rewarding. After reaching a seminar in Kansas, one of the speech-language pathologists continued working with a patient who came in to act as one of my models in the seminar. You can watch his story here.
- While still referring to the work that I teach as MFR, I was asked to write an article for Massage Magazine on treatment to the region of the diaphragm. Link
- As a contributor to Massage & Fitness Magazine, I wrote and article titled Finding My Voice: A Patient-Centered Perspective, Link, Say Nothing, Link, and Let Your Stories Mature and Grow, Link.
- In an issue dedicated to research, I wrote A Deconstruction of Beliefs: A First-Person Account for the Massage New Zealand Magazine. Link
Please check back as this list grows.
There is a deep list of videos that provide the curious leaner much information on the approach used in this work. The Manual Therapy: Voice and Swallowing Disorders YouTube page is a place to start. For more general manual therapy videos, check out this page. For self-help videos suitable for sharing, click here to be taken to that YouTube page.
A podcast that I respect and recommend is Dr. Oliver Thomson’s Words Matter podcast. Covering a wide range of topics, with relevance to the PT, MT, and SLP, Dr. Thomson unpacks the factors at-play in the therapeutic relationship. He is also working his way through the CauseHealth (see below) book with the authors, with each chapter covered in separate podcasts. You can listen to Dr. Thomson’s podcast at this link.
CauseHealth is a project to address complexity in causation regarding therapeutic interactions. They’ve made their latest book, Rethinking Causality, Complexity, and Evidence for the Unique Patient available at no charge , and can be downloaded here. No matter your profession I cannot recommend a source more highly.
Cheers,
Walt Fritz, PT
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