EP 235: Dr. Amy Frugé — Why Your Spine & Stress Might Be Responsible for Your Forearm & Finger Pain

EP 235: Dr. Amy Frugé — Why Your Spine & Stress Might Be Responsible for Your Forearm & Finger Pain

Dr. Amy Frugé (DPT) is a former Martial Arts World Champion, rock climber, and the founder of Converge Physical Therapy. We talked about extremity and finger pain from unusual sources, how to maintain a healthy spine, how emotions and stress affect our pain, psychedelic experiences, the pain, tension, and fear triangle, ways to empty your stress bucket, and much more.

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Show Notes:

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Nuggets:

(00:00:00) – Intro

(00:02:26) – Pregnancy & maternity leave

(00:04:05) – Overview

(00:05:31) – Amy’s martial arts background

(00:10:21) – Confidence

(00:13:29) – Point sparring & boxing

(00:18:14) – Pivoting to climbing

(00:22:24) – How Amy’s athletic background informs her work with climbers

(00:24:25) – Starting her Physical Therapy business during covid

(00:27:13) – Radiculopathy

(00:28:59) – Elbow & finger pain from the spine

(00:39:53) – A pulley injury that turned out to be from the spine

(00:47:00) – Be careful how you snuggle

(00:49:06) – How to maintain a healthy spine

(00:52:44) – Shoulder pain & directional preference

(00:59:37) – Go-to tells of spinal issues

(01:01:15) – Finding a provider

(01:02:39) – How emotions & stress affect our pain

(01:09:08) – The bucket analogy

(01:10:23) – Pain is protective

(01:11:37) – Stress & mindset

(01:18:27) – Science vs. woowoo, & left vs. right

(01:23:09) – Psychedelic-assisted therapy

(01:27:48) – My psychedelic experiences

(01:29:26) – Another client success story

(01:36:58) – The pain, tension, & fear triangle

(01:40:54) – Ways to empty your stress bucket

(01:47:17) – Our many different buckets, & introverts vs. extroverts

(01:51:20) – Be more like a dog

(01:54:42) – Wrap up

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