Today’s guest is Perry Nickelston. Perry is a chiropractic physician with primary focus on performance enhancement, corrective exercise, and metabolic fitness nutrition. He is certified and trained as a Functional Movement Specialist (FMS) and Selective Functional Movement Assessment Specialist (SFMA). Perry is a master fitness trainer with over 25 years of experience in the industry, and runs the “Stop Chasing Pain” podcast.

I’ve personally been on a journey for some time in the realms of corrective exercise and “activation/reset” based therapeutic means for helping the body achieve its original, or optimal, patterning. At a Neurokinetic Therapy seminar (I completed level 1 and 2), which was a really great course, a name that frequently came up at the seminar was Perry Nickelston. Ever since, I’ve been looking into Dr. Perry’s work, how I can better integrate concepts of corrective exercise into my own work, and also how these concepts tie into sport performance.

This show has great ideas for any strength coach engaging in the host of modern corrective and activation based performance paradigms. It also has important implications that originate in therapy, but stretch out into every aspect of full blown athletic performance programming. On the show today, we’ll discuss ideas of “the core”, pain science, the minimal dose in treatment and corrective exercise, making corrective exercise more “sticky”, and more.

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