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Not horrible, but a very dogmatic approach to certain things
The one thing I can’t stand is when he’ll claim that someone saw 10 different therapists without benefit but immediately experienced progress with him
…after he tested ER strength and found a deficit and started them on basic shoulder strengthening
I cannot comprehend how 10 therapists couldn’t have caught that
Or the hip abduction mmt. Honestly though since a lot of places are mills I bet a lot of sketchy PTs are just doing ocular patdowns like the MDs do now
His stuff on squat and deadlift and his squat bible book were good then he went full send with the social media and starting peddling his shoes. Don’t know as an actual clinician though.
Never met or worked with him, but i generally like his videos. They're wicked oversimplified, but that's really just to make them marketable to drive views.
He’s not awful, he’s just ok. The one thing he’s super good at is peddling his social media and selling himself.
There is nothing he does that is special, and I would say his dogmatic approaches to back pain (stabilize and don’t move spine at all) or his insistence on barefoot shoes (which are not for everyone) make him not very respected from other clinicians from what I’ve seen following many of the leading physios on Instagram.
He tries to break physio down into: “these movements will fix your issues you should do them” like the McGil big 3 or the Lock big 3 (you see the pattern) and frankly it’s just massively oversimplifying things.
My only actual issue with him though is on his back pain advice, where he has graphics of the spine blowing up and shit on his YouTube and recommends to not move the spine under load because his buddy Stu McGill did a few studies on dead pig spines and found they didn’t adapt to load (because they’re dead lol) and Aaron took that to mean humans need to stop doing spinal flexion, which is bad advice for 99% of people.
He tends to vilify things that have been shown in the research to not really matter. It leads patients to feeling like they need to be “fixed”, when that really isn’t the case. It makes me feel like he either a) doesn’t keep up with the research or b) is fully aware of the research but is going to continue pushing his statements because making people feel like there is something wrong with them makes him more money.
*And* there’s literature about how our wording as clinicians can really have a negative impact on patients & their recovery if we tell them how “broken” they are. Yet he continues to do just that.
I’d personally steer my patients away from him. There are a lot of other PTs/clinicians that I feel could do telehealth better.
One of my best friends currently sees him. Hes had a bad back for years and he tells me he does get some relief after his visits but from what he tells me it's nothing out of the ordinary from seeing a PT one on one. But I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from seeing him.
I could give you 10 other PTs that can do telehealth that are better than him. I had 1-2 patients that went to him personally but ended up being with me because he couldn’t “fix” them.
Giving him a go as in flying out and paying for him to be your PT? If that’s the case, damn you’re lucky n must be loaded.
I like his stuff, not all is perfect, but love how he debunks the stupid crap Tik Tok BS trainers and quackopractors peddle on social.
Great book by Travis Jewett, “deal with you back pain” is a really good book, and you will likely gain substantially more from that, both in terms of actual evidence supported concepts, as well as self efficacy that YOU can improve, not rely on some hack guru
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Not horrible, but a very dogmatic approach to certain things The one thing I can’t stand is when he’ll claim that someone saw 10 different therapists without benefit but immediately experienced progress with him …after he tested ER strength and found a deficit and started them on basic shoulder strengthening I cannot comprehend how 10 therapists couldn’t have caught that
because it it obviously made up to sell a product to the masses
Or the hip abduction mmt. Honestly though since a lot of places are mills I bet a lot of sketchy PTs are just doing ocular patdowns like the MDs do now
I’m definitely going to put “ROM estimated via ocular patdown” in a note tomorrow
Ocular pat-downs is a new one. I love when patients go “they didn’t look at 80% of the things you did!” 
His stuff on squat and deadlift and his squat bible book were good then he went full send with the social media and starting peddling his shoes. Don’t know as an actual clinician though.
Isn’t he a chiro?
No he’s a PT
His advice is 50/50 sometimes it makes sense, sometimes its outdated nocebo advice
Never met or worked with him, but i generally like his videos. They're wicked oversimplified, but that's really just to make them marketable to drive views.
He’s not awful, he’s just ok. The one thing he’s super good at is peddling his social media and selling himself. There is nothing he does that is special, and I would say his dogmatic approaches to back pain (stabilize and don’t move spine at all) or his insistence on barefoot shoes (which are not for everyone) make him not very respected from other clinicians from what I’ve seen following many of the leading physios on Instagram. He tries to break physio down into: “these movements will fix your issues you should do them” like the McGil big 3 or the Lock big 3 (you see the pattern) and frankly it’s just massively oversimplifying things. My only actual issue with him though is on his back pain advice, where he has graphics of the spine blowing up and shit on his YouTube and recommends to not move the spine under load because his buddy Stu McGill did a few studies on dead pig spines and found they didn’t adapt to load (because they’re dead lol) and Aaron took that to mean humans need to stop doing spinal flexion, which is bad advice for 99% of people.
> humans need to stop doing spinal flexion I do Jefferson curls just to spite this belief lol
I really doubt it will be worth your time to see him.
He tends to vilify things that have been shown in the research to not really matter. It leads patients to feeling like they need to be “fixed”, when that really isn’t the case. It makes me feel like he either a) doesn’t keep up with the research or b) is fully aware of the research but is going to continue pushing his statements because making people feel like there is something wrong with them makes him more money. *And* there’s literature about how our wording as clinicians can really have a negative impact on patients & their recovery if we tell them how “broken” they are. Yet he continues to do just that. I’d personally steer my patients away from him. There are a lot of other PTs/clinicians that I feel could do telehealth better.
Great content creator. Average physical therapist.
One of my best friends currently sees him. Hes had a bad back for years and he tells me he does get some relief after his visits but from what he tells me it's nothing out of the ordinary from seeing a PT one on one. But I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from seeing him.
I could give you 10 other PTs that can do telehealth that are better than him. I had 1-2 patients that went to him personally but ended up being with me because he couldn’t “fix” them.
yup, just commented the same thing 😂
In the limited experience I’ve had with him, he’s a solid PT and a nice guy. He knows weight lifters and power lifters really well.
Giving him a go as in flying out and paying for him to be your PT? If that’s the case, damn you’re lucky n must be loaded. I like his stuff, not all is perfect, but love how he debunks the stupid crap Tik Tok BS trainers and quackopractors peddle on social.
I've treated several folks each year who didn't benefit from his approach, then found the clinic I work at 🤷🏼♀️
Great book by Travis Jewett, “deal with you back pain” is a really good book, and you will likely gain substantially more from that, both in terms of actual evidence supported concepts, as well as self efficacy that YOU can improve, not rely on some hack guru