The PTCH Podcast

Kathy Lynch, DPT and Jason Young, DC
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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. WANT SOME PTCH PODCAST SWAG?!! Shop today ➡️ https://ptchpodcast.shop/swag

  1. 22h ago

    "Breast is Best?"— PhD Lactation Expert Exposes The Truth

    When did "breast is best" stop being advice and start being a way to make exhausted moms feel like they're failing a test? Dr. Jessica Bliss (PhD, Cornell) went from witnessing infant mortality in Niger's hunger seasons to becoming one of the most evidence-based lactation consultants in the Pacific Northwest. Today she's breaking down the myths that torment new parents — and she's not pulling punches. 🔥 MYTHS BUSTED IN THIS EPISODE: ❌ "If baby wants to nurse an hour later, your milk isn't rich enough" ❌ Breastfeeding is natural so it should be easy ❌ Lactation consultants are pushy breast-only advocates ✅ The REAL history behind "breast is best" (1977 boycott) ✅ Why immunological protection can't be replicated in formula ✅ When to actually call a lactation consultant (hint: BEFORE birth) 👤 ABOUT OUR GUEST: Dr. Jessica Bliss is the owner of Bright Star Lactation in Corvallis, OR. She holds a PhD from Cornell University, conducted research at Princeton, and spent years with Peace Corps in Niger studying infant nutrition during famine conditions. She offers evidence-based, judgment-free support for all feeding families. 🔗 Find Jessica: Bright Star Lactation (Corvallis, OR) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY: Brain.FM Music for your brain! Your subscription helps the PTCH Podcast. 🔗 https://brain.fm/ptchpodcast Try free for 30 days! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🩺 ABOUT THE PTCH PODCAST: What happens when a chiropractor and physical therapist actually like each other? Dr. Jason Young and Dr. Kathy Lynch bring you evidence-based health talk with humor, honesty, and zero ego. Movement, nutrition, pain science, and occasional chaos. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE & turn on notifications 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 #breastfeeding #lactationconsultant #newmom #infantnutrition #fedisbest #breastisbest #postpartum #newborn #motherhood #evidencebased #healthpodcast

    1h 6m

  2. Jun 24

    Why This Common Back Pain Treatment Gets a Pass (When Chiropractic Doesn't)

    We ran a social media experiment: showed people a study with 132 trials, 7,900 patients, modest short-term relief, no long-term benefits, and serious complications. They called it "dangerous quackery." Plot twist: it wasn't about chiropractic. It was epidural steroid injections — the "real medicine" your doctor recommends after an MRI. Same weak evidence, completely different reaction. Today we're unpacking WHY. And what conservative care should look like 💉 KEY TAKEAWAYS: • 9 million epidural steroid injections performed yearly in the US • Evidence shows: decent for disability, NOT effective for pain • Short-term outcomes only: days to weeks of relief • Major guidelines place injections AFTER PT and chiropractic • Cost comparison: $2,000-5,000 per injection vs. conservative care • Same "low quality evidence" problem affects ALL back pain treatments 🔬 THE DOUBLE STANDARD: When a physician does it with a needle and fluoroscopy machine = "real medicine" When a chiropractor or PT does manual therapy = "pseudoscience" Same evidence quality. Different labels. Why? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY: Brain.FM Music for your brain! Your subscription helps the PTCH Podcast. 🔗 https://brain.fm/ptchpodcast Try 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) break down health, fitness, and pain science with humor and zero ego. Remember: there's no "I" in PTCH. 🎧 LISTEN EVERYWHERE: 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 📱 FOLLOW US: Instagram: https://instagram.com/ptchpodcast TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@ptchpodcast 👍 If this made you think twice about your treatment options, SUBSCRIBE and drop a comment with your experience! #BackPain #EpiduralInjections #Chiropractic #PhysicalTherapy #PainManagement #EvidenceBasedMedicine

    55 min

  3. Jun 17

    Dr. Google Is In: We Answer the 10 Most Googled Pain Questions

    You Googled your symptoms at 2 AM and now you're convinced you need spinal surgery, an MRI, and possibly a wheelchair. Sound familiar? Dr. Jason Young (chiropractor) and Dr. Kathy Lynch (physical therapist) tackle the most commonly searched pain questions on the internet — and separate the helpful information from the hysteria. **🔍 What You'll Learn in This Episode:** • Why "Dr. Google" often leads you down the wrong diagnostic path • The truth about the most searched back pain, neck pain, and knee pain questions • When you actually DO need imaging like an MRI (and when you definitely don't) • Red flags that genuinely warrant concern vs. normal symptoms that sound scary online • Evidence-based answers to questions like "Why does my back hurt?" and "Is my sciatica serious?" • How to be a smarter, calmer patient after your next late-night search session **📸 Screenshot This:** ✅ Most back pain does NOT require surgery ✅ Sciatica symptoms alone rarely indicate emergency ✅ "Degenerative disc disease" sounds worse than it usually is ✅ Your symptoms + Google ≠ accurate diagnosis **About the Hosts:** Dr. Jason Young is a chiropractor and Dr. Kathy Lynch is a physical therapist. Together, they cut through the noise with evidence-based, slightly edgy takes on health, fitness, and musculoskeletal care. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY: **Brain.FM** Music for your brain! Your subscription helps the PTCH Podcast. 🔗 https://brain.fm/ptchpodcast Try free for 30 days! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 **Listen on 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 **SUBSCRIBE** and hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode! New episodes drop weekly. #backpain #sciatica #physicaltherapy #chiropractor #healthpodcast back pain, sciatica, Dr Google symptoms, googling symptoms, why does my back hurt, do I need an MRI, chiropractor, physical therapist, low back pain, knee pain, neck pain, musculoskeletal pain, health anxiety, pain questions answered, evidence based health, PT vs chiropractor, should I see a doctor for back pain, degenerative disc disease, health podcast, PTCH podcast, Dr Jason Young, Dr Kathy Lynch, spine health, joint pain causes, when to worry about back pain

    54 min
  4. FireFly Recovery: The Secret Weapon in Every NFL & MLB Training Room | As Seen on Shark Tank

    Jun 10

    FireFly Recovery: The Secret Weapon in Every NFL & MLB Training Room | As Seen on Shark Tank

    🔥 What if a $36 device that looks like a Band-Aid could outperform your $1,000 compression boots? We sat down with Anthony Kjenstad, President of FireFly Recovery (yes, the Shark Tank company), to find out why every NFL, MLB, and WNBA team is using this thing.https://fireflyrecovery.comJason Young, DC and Kathy Lynch, DPT discuss the science behind this incredible device that is helping fight DVT, leg fatigue, edema and DOMS. Plus: the science of 400% increased microcirculation, why this medical device accidentally became a sports recovery revolution, and what's coming next for upper extremity use.⏱️ CHAPTERS:1:37 - Meet Anthony Kjenstad, FireFly Recovery President8:01 - Dr. Jason's "tricky leg" cellulitis story14:43 - Exact placement: finding the peroneal nerve21:23 - Why FireFly beats every other recovery tool27:49 - How Shark Tank changed the business forever34:05 - The science: zone one exercise without moving40:32 - Patrick Mahomes' recovery and female athletes47:10 - Lightning round game with Anthony🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYS:• FireFly increases microcirculation 400% vs. 117% for compression boots• Started as a medical DVT prevention device, accidentally became recovery tech• Optimal dose: 2 hours (vs. 30-45 min in compression boots)• Used by 90%+ of WNBA teams, nearly every NFL/MLB team• Costs ~$48 for about 15 treatments (roughly $3/session)• Upper extremity version coming soon for pitchers/quarterbacks👤 ABOUT OUR GUEST:Anthony Kjenstad is the President of FireFly Recovery (https://fireflyrecovery.com), a neuromuscular electrostimulation device company that appeared on Shark Tank in 2025. FireFly started as a medical device for DVT prevention and pivoted to athletic recovery after trainers discovered its benefits.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📢 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 team up? Dr. Jason Young (DC) and Dr. Kathy Lynch (PT) bring you evidence-based health, fitness, and recovery talk with a slightly edgy twist. No fluff, no BS—just real talk about what actually works.🔔 SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW:🎧 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👍 If this episode helped you, smash that subscribe button and drop a comment about YOUR favorite recovery tool!#FireFlyRecovery #SharkTank #RecoveryDevice #SportsRecovery #Chiropractic #PhysicalTherapy #NormatecAlternative #AthleteRecovery #PTCHPodcast

    51 min

  5. Jun 3

    We Asked A Plastic Surgeon The Questions Nobody Asks (Ft. Dr. Rick Green)

    What if everything you thought about plastic surgery was wrong? 🔪A 30-year board-certified plastic surgeon reveals the truth about his industry—from ancient nose reconstructions to modern misconceptions.In this episode, Dr. Rick Green joins Dr. Jason Young (chiropractor) and Dr. Kathy Lynch (physical therapist) for an unfiltered conversation about plastic surgery that goes WAY beyond botox and facelifts.🎓 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:• The shocking 3,000-year history of plastic surgery (it started as PUNISHMENT)• The difference between cosmetic and reconstructive surgery (and why it matters)• What really happens on day one of medical school plastic surgery rotations• Why Dr. Green said "I don't want to be a plastic surgeon"—then changed his mind• The ancient Indian technique still used by surgeons TODAY• How a 13-hour infant skull surgery changed everything💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS:→ Plastic surgery ≠ vanity (reconstructive work makes up 50% of many practices)→ The "Tagliakotzy flap" from the 1500s is STILL used in modern rhinoplasty→ Board certification matters more than you think→ Yes, surgeons learn new techniques from YouTube (seriously)🎙️ ABOUT OUR GUEST:Dr. Rick Green, MD is a board-certified plastic surgeon practicing in Vancouver, Washington (the ORIGINAL Vancouver). With 30 years of experience and a practice split between cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, he brings a unique perspective that challenges the "fufu stuff" stereotype of plastic surgery. Fun fact: He played clarinet in the Notre Dame marching band and was in the stadium when they filmed the final scene of Rudy! Check out his website: https://salmoncreekps.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📢 THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BYBrain.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 become best friends and start a podcast? Evidence-based health info with a side of humor. We break down complex health topics, interview experts, and prove that chiropractors and PTs CAN get along.Dr. Jason Young - Evidence-based chiropractor who uses humor just as much as adjustmentsDr. Kathy Lynch - Physical therapist helping people move better and get stronger━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH US:🎧 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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔔 SUBSCRIBE and hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode!New episodes drop weekly. Leave a comment: What's YOUR biggest question about plastic surgery?#PlasticSurgery #PlasticSurgeon #HealthPodcast #PTCH #MedicalMyths #Chiropractor #PhysicalTherapist

    1h 10m

  6. May 28

    Stop Resting Your Injury (Do THIS Instead)

    🚨 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 Young This 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.FM Music for your brain! Your subscription helps the PTCH Podcast. 🔗 https://brain.fm/ptchpodcast Try 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

    57 min

  7. May 21

    NFL Team Chiropractor Reveals All (12 Seasons w/ Seahawks) - Jim Kurtz, DC

    What 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

    1h 2m

  8. May 13

    It's ILLEGAL To Die In This Town (And Other Insane Health Laws)

    🚨 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/@ptchpodcast Enjoying 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.

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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. WANT SOME PTCH PODCAST SWAG?!! Shop today ➡️ https://ptchpodcast.shop/swag

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  • Creator
    Kathy Lynch, DPT and Jason Young, DC
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    66
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Kathy Lynch, DPT and Jason Young, DC
  • Show Website
    The PTCH Podcast

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