What If The Real Treatment Is The Experience

What If The Real Treatment Is The Experience

April 2, 2026 · 1h 24m

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The episode explores the complexities of manual therapy and the subjective experiences of patients with Paul Ingram.

Send us Fan Mail Manual therapy is full of confident stories: tight fascia, “alignment,” trigger points that must be released, posture that must be corrected. Then real life shows up and ruins the script. People feel better for a day, or a week, or not at all, and yet many still say massage is essential. We dig into that tension with Paul Ingram of PainScience.com, a former massage therapist known for skeptical deep dives that still leave room for nuance. We talk about what massage therapy c...

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Host: Troy Lavigne

Guest: Paul Ingram

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