The NeuFit Undercurrent Podcast

One day after finishing a half Ironman, Karan Singh, PT, DPT, had his first panic attack. A week later, standing in the TSA line at the Austin airport, his vision started jumping and the ground began moving up and down. What followed was five months, seven-plus clinicians, a brain MRI, and roughly a hundred blood tests, all of them negative. The answer turned out to be persistent postural-perceptual dizziness, a diagnosis only solidified in 2017, and one most clinicians have already seen without recognizing it. The hardware was fine, it's the software was stuck. In this episode, we get into: What PPPD actually is, and the three criteria that identify it Why a brain stuck in threat abandons balance input and over-relies on the eyes The three phases of the protocol Karan built for himself with the Neubie Why exposure work land faster when you first down-regulate the neurological perception of threat The one instruction that matters most: do not let patients avoid the triggers If you have a patient whose dizziness never resolved and whose scans all came back clean, this episode gives you a name for it and a way in. And if that patient is you, Karan's own words are the place to start: it is functional, not structural, and it can be retrained.

You set the goal, built the morning routine, and brought the discipline. Yet somehow you ended up right back where you started.  Hypnotherapist and Master NLP Practitioner Aaron James Yager has a simple explanation: the part of you making the decision is not the part running the show. The subconscious manages the body and the behavior, and its first job is keeping you safe, which means it treats anything unfamiliar as a threat -- including the life you say you want. In this episode, we get into: Why willpower keeps losing to the subconscious, and where that programming comes from What hypnotherapy actually is, as distinct from the version you have seen on a stage The parallel between an inhibited muscle that will not fire and a belief that will not shift, and why speaking affirmations in the mirror so often do nothing Combining the Neubie, breathwork and hypnotherapy in a single session to promote the neurological perception of safety  How to up-regulate or down-regulate in under fifteen breaths At NeuFit, we're often working on the nervous system from the outside in, through direct electrical input. Aaron works on it from the inside out, through breath, hypnosis, and language. Both run into the same wall: you cannot reason a nervous system out of a state it believes is keeping you alive. And what this conversation is really about is the way through – change the state first, and the content work starts to stick.  

Two people have the same ACL reconstruction, from the same surgeon, on the same day. One is back at 7 months, and the other is still working on it at 13. The surgery was identical, so what actually accounts for the difference? In this episode, Garrett sits down with Julia Grace Gillen, PT, DPT, better known as JG the PT, who runs a sports physical therapy practice in Jackson, Wyoming. In a town where people's identity is tied to being able to ski, run, climb, and get outside, the pressure to return someone to sport is different, and so is the standard. JG walks through the entire arc of post-op care, from the weeks before surgery through the day someone clicks back into their skis, and makes a very clear case that some of the most important work happens in the windows most patients are told to sit still through. In this episode, we get into: Why muscles begin to atrophy in about two weeks, and what effective prehab does for an outcome months later Why rehab should start within 24 to 48 hours after surgery, and what that first session actually looks like – even with restrictions from the surgeon The middle phase of rehab, where recovery is quietly won or lost, and the specific targets JG uses to get patients through it Why range of motion and strength have to be built in parallel rather than one after the other The piece missing from most return-to-sport programs, and why sixty seconds of side-to-side testing says nothing about a six-hour day on the mountain What runners consistently neglect: the foot, the big toe, and the soleus, and why a jump rope may be the most underrated training tool Whether you are a clinician building post-op protocols, an athlete staring down a surgery date, or someone who has been told to wait six weeks and do nothing, this conversation lays out what the research and a decade of mountain-town practice say about how recovery actually gets faster.  

I have been fascinated by the relationship between mind and body for years. Of course, calling it a relationship implies two separate things. In this solo episode, I make the case that they are one system. The same playbook that took a football player's shoulder from 45 degrees to fully overhead in minutes (without ever touching the injured ligament), is the playbook it runs in psychology and behavior – limiting output based on the perception of threat and safety.  Key insights include:  Why guarding, inhibition and pain are protective outputs rather than failures, and why the same three show up in psychology as walls, withholding, and avoidance. The compensatory behaviors most of us carry, including examples like hyper-achievement, putting on the happy face, people-pleasing and the need for control, and what each one is actually protecting against. Why you cannot force a release in either system, and why every one of these patterns had a positive intention at the time it formed. The second door: research on entering the system through the mind, including Ellen Langer's famous studies like Counterclockwise and the Chambermaid Study.  Attention to variability, and how asking a chronic pain patient when their pain is better can loosen the label and restore a sense of agency. Most of what we call resistance, whether it's in a shoulder or in a life, is not stubbornness. It is a pattern of protection that has outlived its usefulness. And this episode is about how to tell the difference and what actually helps it let go.

Most clinics choose their equipment based on what the research says, what the rep promises, or what everyone else is using. Chad Sirratt does something simpler and considerably more revealing: he tests the patient before and after, and asks one question. Did that device turn the muscle on, or turn it off? In this episode, Garrett sits down with Chad, owner of Texas Muscle Activation in Frisco, Texas, for a conversation about muscle activation, the whole-body detective work of finding out why something hurts, and what Chad learned when he started putting his patients' own recovery devices to the test. Along the way Chad walks through the layered treatment model he has built -- one of the most compelling and intentional sequences Garrett has seen in any clinic -- and explains why so many of the things we do to feel better may be quietly making us weaker. In this episode, we get into: What Muscle Activation Techniques actually is Why your hamstrings are tight, why stretching them is usually the wrong answer, and what the tightness is actually doing The whole-body assessment: why a flat foot can end up as neck pain, and why Chad reads the hip, foot, spine, shoulder, and neck as one system What a muscle test is really asking: not how strong is this muscle, but can it contract at all Why stretching, foam rolling, trigger point work, cupping, and dry needling can all leave a muscle testing weaker, and what that means for your recovery routine The device test: what happened when Chad put an athlete's popular stim unit on his arm and found inhibition running all the way down to his foot -- and what happened when he ran the same test with the Neubie The mistake Chad's clinic was making before decompression sessions, and how understanding current changed their entire protocol How MAT, the Neubie, and IsoPhit stack together to build stability the nervous system will actually trust Chad's one-line rule for what earns a place in his clinic Whether you are a clinician deciding what belongs in your practice, an athlete wondering why your recovery tools are not working, or someone who has been stretching the same tight muscle for years without lasting change, this conversation offers a different way to evaluate what is helping you and what is holding you back.