#685: Dr. Shirley Sahrmann — A Legendary PT Does a Deep Dive on Tim's Low-Back Issues, Teaches How to Unlearn Painful Patterns, Talks About Movement as Medicine (or Poison), and More

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Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD, is Professor
Emerita of Physical Therapy at Washington University School of
Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her bachelor’s
degree in physical therapy and her masters and doctorate degrees
in neurobiology from Washington University, where she joined the
physical therapy faculty and became the first director of their
PhD program in movement science.


Shirley became a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American
Physical Therapy Association in 1986 and in 1998 was selected to
receive the Mary McMillan Award, the Association’s highest honor.
She is a recipient of the Association’s Marion Williams Research
Award, the Lucy Blair Service Award, the Kendall Practice Award,
and the Inaugural John H.P. Maley Lecturer Award.  


She has also received Washington University's Distinguished
Faculty Award, the Distinguished Alumni Award, the School of
Medicine’s Inaugural Distinguished Clinician Award, and an
honorary doctorate from the University of Indianapolis. She has
also received the Bowling-Erhard Orthopedic Clinical Practice
Award from the Orthopaedic Academy of the APTA. She has
served on the APTA Board of Directors and as president of the
Missouri Chapter.


Her first book, Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement
Impairment Syndromes, has been translated into seven
languages. Her second book, Movement System Impairment
Syndromes of the Extremities, Cervical and Thoracic
Spines, has been equally influential in promoting
movement diagnoses.


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[07:12] A brief terminology primer.


[13:00] Why Shirley's first book is so influential among physical
therapists.


[15:54] The correlation between lifestyle and health hasn't
always been obvious.


[18:16] Low back pain: not a diagnosis, but a symptom.


[20:41] The trouble with overdeveloped abdominals.


[22:32] What's my problem?


[30:14] The Movement Systems Syndromes (MSS) approach.


[31:29] The wrong walk home.


[33:01] Correcting bad habits.


[35:00] Psoas it goes.


[37:03] Other commonly repeating culprits.


[40:36] Pump handle and bucket handle.


[43:41] The body follows the path of least resistance.


[48:00] Anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS)


[49:20] How Shirley examines a new patient.


[55:11] Assessing athletes vs. non-athletes.


[56:18] Dynamic neuromuscular stabilization (DNS)


[57:49] Collapso-smasho and squeezo-smasho.


[59:10] Correcting low shoulders.


[1:05:26] Stretching: yes or no?


[1:09:56] Addressing my abdominal stiffness.


[1:16:28] When the spine doesn't want to go along for the ride.


[1:18:38] How has Shirley made it to 86 with her physical and
mental health intact?


[1:34:32] What men should know about femoral retroversion.


[1:38:44] If it walks like a duck...


[1:41:11] Managing symptoms of Scheuermann's disease.


[1:42:49] Parting thoughts.


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