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#103 FAKTR Podcast - Rebuilding Better Athletes: The System Every Sports Clinician Needs with Dr. Tom Teter, Part 1
🔖 Titles
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1. Bridging the Gap in Sports Chiropractic: From Injury Recovery to Human Performance
2. Redefining Recovery and Performance in Sports Chiropractic with Dr. Tom Teter
3. Beyond Rehab: The Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Model Explained
4. Navigating the Missing Link in Sports Medicine and Rehab Education
5. From Pain Relief to Peak Performance: New Approaches in Sports Chiropractic
6. Reimagining Athlete Care: Connecting Sports Medicine, Performance, and Rehab
7. Building a Reproducible System for Injury Recovery and Long-Term Athlete Optimization
8. Why Traditional Rehab Falls Short and How to Fill the Gaps
9. Collaborative Care: Structuring Teams for Better Sports Rehab Outcomes
10. Clinical Performance Frameworks: Helping Patients Do More Than Just Recover
Let me know if you want the titles tailored for a specific audience or with a different focus!
💬 Keywords
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sports chiropractic, rehab education, clinical performance, strength and conditioning, clinical human performance practitioner, sports medicine, human performance, injury recovery, performance enhancement, sports med certifications, fitness, athletic training, musculoskeletal injuries, treatment plan, maximum medical improvement, patient care, movement assessment, acute management, kinematics, motor control, functional integration, progressive kinetics, work capacity, sports performance, integrated support team, critical thinking, collaboration in healthcare, evidence informed treatment, rehabilitation spectrum, training plan, recurring injuries
💡 Speaker bios
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Jessica Riddle is the host of the FAKTR podcast, a show dedicated to equipping healthcare providers with the real-world skills and knowledge they didn't learn in school. With a passion for helping clinicians grow their practices and refine their clinical skills, Jessica offers practical advice on everything from delivering top-tier patient care and implementing cutting-edge treatments, to mastering business strategies that prevent burnout. Whether her audience is just starting out or looking to take their practice to new heights, Jessica guides listeners through the challenges of healthcare with insights from leading experts and innovators, helping them build rewarding and sustainable careers.
🎞️ Clipfinder: Quotes, Hooks, & Timestamps
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Dr. Tom Teter
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Bridging Sports Medicine and Performance Gaps: "we started talking about some of my experiences with some of the gaps that I tend to see between sports medicine and clinical practice and what happens in sports performance and skills training."
Dr. Tom Teter
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Why Athletes Get Injured Despite Being Fit: “And then I, I just kept seeing over and over again that some of these people were really strong and relatively fit, but they kept getting injured over and over and over again.”
Dr. Tom Teter
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Viral Topic: Social Media Fitness Myths: "What people don't understand is there were probably 10 steps that a person would have to take to be able to earn the right to do that exercise."
Dr. Tom Teter
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Rethinking Maximum Medical Improvement: "if we're letting people go from care at MMI, they've skipped half the puzzle, and they're not... they're still underprepared with the physical qualities they need to complete in their terminal task in sport."
Dr. Tom Teter
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The Real Gap in Chiropractic Education: "But I think part of the problem is most of these students have never been shown what the gaps are in their process."
Dr. Tom Teter
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Closing the Education Gap in Sports Rehab: "And so we're still seeing, like, 50% of the puzzle being left out of education. And that's kind of the gap that we're trying to fill."
Dr. Tom Teter
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Viral Topic: The Importance of Systems in Athletic Training
"I think we tend to miss organized framework in an operating system, and then we don't have a standard operating procedure or processes that we can use as a series of checking checks and balances to check our work to make sure we're not missing steps, and then we have a system that's reproducible across multiple practitioners."
Dr. Tom Teter
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Viral Topic: The Power of Open-Ended Questions in Athletic Training: "the first thing I want them, the provider to ask is, what can we do for you? It's a simple open ended question, and we have two pathways."
Dr. Tom Teter
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How to Create a Personalized Fitness Plan: "So we know what you wanna do. We We know what you need to be able to do. Here's what you can currently do, and how do we get you from point a to point b, which is your end goal."
Dr. Tom Teter
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Viral Topic: The Power of Integrated Sports Teams: "there's always a turf war in general, but it doesn't have to be that way because there are many times where I would ...the physical therapist did a few things better than me that I that I didn't even know how to do at the time."
ℹ️ Introduction
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Welcome back to the FAKTR Podcast! In today’s episode, host Jessica Riddle sits down with Dr. Tom Teter, a trailblazer in sports chiropractic and human performance. Together, they dig into the “missing link” in sports chiropractic and rehab education—exploring why traditional clinical education often falls short for those working with athletes and active individuals. Dr. Teter shares his unique journey from strength and conditioning into chiropractic, revealing eye-opening gaps he noticed between injury recovery, true performance enhancement, and what’s being taught in most sports med certifications.
The conversation unpacks Dr. Teter’s algorithm-based, clinical human performance practitioner model—a framework designed to not only help patients bounce back from injuries, but to send them back out stronger and more resilient than before. They touch on why so many athletes get stuck in a cycle of injury and reinjury, how social media culture can set unrealistic expectations, and the pitfalls of only focusing on returning patients to “maximum medical improvement.”
Whether you’re a new grad hoping to work with athletes, a seasoned provider seeking advanced clinical tools, or just curious about bridging the worlds of rehab and performance, this episode is packed with actionable insights to take your practice to the next level. Let’s dive in!
📚 Timestamped overview
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00:00 FAKTR Podcast: Thrive in Healthcare
04:30 Exploring Fitness and Injury Prevention
07:35 Social Media's Fitness Misguidance
12:13 Redefining MMI for Athlete Readiness
17:18 Educational Gaps in Chiropractic Training
21:21 Athletic Training Decision Algorithm
24:39 Client Needs & Fitness Assessment
25:49 Navigating Collaborative Healthcare Turf Wars
29:16 Integrated Sports Team Essentials
32:00 Visit Faktr-Store for Courses & Events
❇️ Key topics and bullets
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Certainly! Here’s a comprehensive sequence of topics discussed in this episode of the FAKTR Podcast, with clear primary topics and sub-topic bullets beneath each one.
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**1. Introduction to the FAKTR Podcast**
- Goals of the podcast: Going beyond traditional education to discuss clinical growth, business, and patient outcomes
- Target audience: Healthcare providers at various career stages
- Emphasis on learning from experts and applying real-world tactics
**2. Guest Introduction: Dr. Tom Teter**
- Dr. Teter’s background in strength and conditioning
- Experience with high-level athletes and university athletic departments
- Motivation for developing a new framework to bridge sports medicine and performance
**3. Origins of the Missing Link in Sports Chiropractic and Rehab**
- Dr. Teter’s first experiences with FAKTR courses and meeting Dr. Riddle
- Recognition of gaps between sports medicine, clinical practice, and sports performance
- Real-world challenges faced working with student-athletes and solving complex cases
**4. Dr. Teter’s Path into Healthcare**
- Academic background in exercise science and becoming a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
- Working in fitness and noticing recurring injuries in strong, fit individuals
- Personal experience with chiropractic for injury and pain relief
- Decision to pursue chiropractic as a profession based on clinical results
**5. Analysis of Common Athletic Injuries and Root Causes**
- Discussion of recurring injuries: Underpreparedness and overstimulation
- Misalignment between training goals and physical preparation (e.g., overloading, inadequate progression)
- Negative influence of social media culture on unsafe and premature exercise progression
- Clinician’s responsibility to dispel myths and provide accurate guidance
**6. The Provider’s Role and the Traditional Care Pathway**
- Healthcare providers entering the scene after injuries have occurred
- Standard clinical sequence: assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and (often premature) discharge at Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI)
- Pattern of recurrent injuries due to discharging at MMI without holistic readiness
**7. Redefining Maximum Medical Improvement and Rehabilitation Goals**
- Need to expand the definition of MMI to include fitness and functional capacity
- Gap between tissue-level healing, motor control, and actual performance readiness
- Advantage of reverse-engineering the entire care plan from return-to-sport goals backward
**8. Gaps in Current Clinical and Sports Medicine Education**
- Overview of chiropractic and other rehab education: Board preparation and technique
- Limitations of sports certifications (e.g., CCSP, diplomate programs) in covering only acute care, kinematics, and early rehab
- The absence of comprehensive, integrative systems covering the full rehab-to-performance spectrum
**9. The Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Model**
- What the new model adds: Stages beyond acute management and motor control
- Filling the “what’s next” gap after foundational certification
- Complementing, not replacing, traditional certifications with a focus on long-term performance
**10. The Importance of Critical Thinking and Structured Frameworks**
- Addressing the lack of effective frameworks and reproducible operating systems in clinical practice
- Introduction to Dr. Teter’s operational algorithm for clinical decision-making:
- Split pathways: Painful condition (rehab-driven) vs. non-painful/fitness goals (performance-driven)
- The Clinical Audit Process (for pain) with steps: patient profile, needs analysis, exam/diagnosis, treatment planning, discharge/activity restoration
- The Fitness Audit Process (for performance): client profile, needs analysis, fitness assessment, training plan, outcome evaluation
- Enabling consistent, step-wise care across different providers
**11. Effective Collaboration in Integrated Care Teams**
- Challenges of “turf wars” and responsibility ambiguity in multidisciplinary teams
- Use of structured algorithms to clarify provider roles and handoffs
- Breakdown of essential team roles:
- Management (administrative oversight)
- Medical (athletic trainer, physicians, psychologists, nutritionists)
- Movement (chiropractors, physical therapists)
- Fitness (strength and conditioning staff)
- Skill (coaching)
- Sports science/monitoring (load management, recovery)
- Real-world examples of collaborative care and delegation of specific interventions
**12. Closing and Next Steps**
- Recap of Dr. Teter’s framework and its impact on reproducible, performance-driven care
- Invitation to learn more via the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Certification (details and website info)
- Podcast wrap-up and encouragement to connect for more resources, courses, and updates
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🎬 Reel script
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If you’re a health professional wanting to level up your practice, this episode is for you. I sat down with Dr. Tom Teter, who’s shaking up sports chiropractic and rehab by bridging the gap between traditional care and true performance. We talked about why so many athletes get stuck in a cycle of re-injury, and how most certifications miss the mark on getting patients beyond just feeling better to actually performing better. Dr. Teter shared a powerful framework for taking patients from injury all the way to optimization, working smarter with integrated teams, and delivering real results that last. If you’re ready to move past the basics and become a true clinical human performance practitioner, you don’t want to miss this.
👩💻 LinkedIn post
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🚀 Just finished listening to the latest FAKTR Podcast with Dr. Tom Teter and host Jessica Riddle—and I’m rethinking my whole approach to sports chiropractic and rehab! If you’re a provider working with athletes or active individuals, this episode is a must.
Dr. Teter dives deep into the **missing link between injury recovery and long-term performance**, sharing why the traditional "treat-and-release" model just isn’t enough for today’s patients. He discusses the development of his Clinical Human Performance Practitioner framework and how it bridges the gap between sports medicine, rehab, and real-world performance.
**Here are my top 3 takeaways:**
- 🏋️♂️ **Redefine Recovery:** Maximum medical improvement (MMI) shouldn’t just mean “pain-free”—it should mean athletes are truly ready for the demands of their sport. Stopping at basic motor control misses half the rehab puzzle.
- 🤝 **Structured Collaboration Matters:** Having an operational framework and clear roles makes multidisciplinary teams stronger. Dr. Teter’s algorithm helps assign ownership (and minimize turf wars!) so every provider knows when to step in.
- 🧩 **Critical Thinking & Assessment:** Dr. Teter shares actionable audit processes for both rehab and performance, ensuring practitioners don’t skip essential steps and can develop reproducible, measurable outcomes for active patients.
If you’re passionate about elevating your impact beyond just treating injuries, check out this episode and explore the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner certification to level up your practice.
🔗 Listen & learn more: https://online.sports-seminars.com/certifications
#SportsChiropractic #Rehab #PerformanceCare #FAKTR #AthleteHealth #InterdisciplinaryCare
🗞️ Newsletter
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Subject: The Missing Link in Sports Chiropractic & Rehab: Dr. Tom Teter’s Clinical Human Performance Model 🚀
Hey FAKTR Community,
We’re back with another game-changing episode of the FAKTR Podcast! This week, host Jessica Riddle sits down with Dr. Tom Teter to dig deep into what’s missing in sports chiropractic and rehab education—plus, how to finally bridge the gap between injury recovery and long-term performance.
If you’ve ever wondered why athletic injuries keep coming back or felt like there’s a disconnect between rehab and peak performance, this conversation is for you.
**Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:**
- **Why Traditional Rehab Isn’t Enough:** Discover the big “what’s next?” question providers face after helping patients reach maximum medical improvement (MMI)—and why sending athletes out the door at this stage often leads to repeat injuries.
- **Where the Education Gaps Are:** Dr. Teter shares insights from his path—from strength & conditioning to chiropractic education to university athletic departments—and reveals what most sports medicine certifications don’t address.
- **A New Collaborative Framework:** Hear all about Dr. Teter’s algorithmic approach: an operational system designed to help chiropractors, PTs, ATCs, and coaches work better together, clarify roles, and cover “the other 50%” of the rehab-to-performance journey.
- **Critical Thinking in Patient Care:** Move beyond checklists and protocols and learn how purposeful frameworks empower providers to serve both the weekend warrior and the elite athlete—far past just getting them pain-free.
Ready to supercharge your practice?
We’re excited to announce our new Clinical Human Performance Practitioner certification, inspired by Dr. Teter’s systems-thinking approach. With 12 courses and 114+ hours of content, you’ll gain the tools to bridge rehab and performance—plus, collaborate seamlessly across integrated care teams.
**👉 Enrollment is open now! Visit [online.sports-seminars.com](https://online.sports-seminars.com) and check out the certifications tab, or find the link in our show notes to get started.**
Let’s move the discipline forward together—getting athletes and active patients not just back to baseline, but back even better.
If you love these conversations, please like, follow, and share the FAKTR Podcast. Got a friend or colleague who’d benefit? Pay it forward!
See you in the next episode (& in the classroom!),
The FAKTR Team
P.S. Want hands-on training? Visit [faktr-store.com](https://faktr-store.com) for event calendars, upcoming courses, and more.
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**Listen now and check the show notes for all links, course info, and important updates!**
🧵 Tweet thread
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🔥 THREAD: The Missing Link in Sports Chiropractic & Rehab? Here’s What Most Providers Overlook (That’s Holding You Back) 🧵
1/ If you’re a sports chiro, PT, or athletic trainer & feel like there’s something missing after “healing” injuries… you’re not alone. 👀
Let’s break down the BIGGEST gaps in current sports med education, courtesy of Dr. Tom Teter on the FAKTR podcast.👇
2/ Traditional education teaches you how to pass boards, diagnose, and treat injuries. But what happens AFTER your patient hits “maximum medical improvement”? 🤔
Spoiler: Most providers set their “baby bird” free... right before they’re ready to fly.
3/ Dr. Teter spotted a HUGE gap: Athletes often get hurt again because we get them out of pain—but don’t rebuild the performance or capacity they actually need. 🚨
“We let people go at motor control, but they’re still underprepared for their real goals.” – Dr. Teter
4/ Why does this happen?
- We treat the body part (ankle, knee, etc.), not the athlete
- Education stops at rehab—ignoring the demands of real sport/fitness
- Social media makes people attempt advanced exercises WAY before they’re ready (hello, “influencers” 🙄)
5/ Dr. Teter’s solution? A structured, algorithmic approach that bridges the gap from injury → performance.
It’s about thinking backwards: What does this person need to DO? Set the goal, reverse-engineer the steps, and NEVER skip the transition from rehab to true readiness.
6/ Here’s the kicker:
Even certified pros (CCSP, rehab certs, etc.) are often “great at the first 3 stages of care... and then stop.”
That’s only HALF the puzzle! You need a plan that goes ALL THE WAY to full return—not just pain-free, but game-ready. 🏆
7/ The game-changer: A framework for collaboration.
Dr. Teter outlines clear roles for EVERYONE on the team (AT, chiro, PT, strength coach, etc.), so there’s no “turf war”—just seamless handoffs, clarity, and better outcomes for athletes.
8/ The result?
- Fewer reinjuries
- More resilient athletes & patients
- Providers who aren’t stuck in the “treat & release” trap
If you’re ready to level-up, rethink what “recovery” actually means, and build a career you LOVE—this is the shift you need.
9/ Want a deep dive? 🔥
Check out Dr. Teter’s Clinical Human Performance Practitioner model & certification via FAKTR—structured, actionable, and built for the FUTURE of sports health care.
Full details here 👉 online.sports-seminars.com
10/ RT & tag a colleague who STILL thinks getting patients “out of pain” means the job is done. 🐤
Because in today’s world, only the best providers go beyond recovery… all the way to OPTIMIZATION.
#sportschiro #rehab #sportsmedicine #physicaltherapy #FAKTR #HumanPerformance #sportsrehab
❓ Questions
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Absolutely! Here are 10 discussion questions based on this episode of the FAKTR Podcast:
1. **Dr. Teter emphasizes the divide between sports medicine and sports performance. In your own practice or experience, have you noticed this gap? How has it affected athletes or active individuals?**
2. **The idea of patients being “underprepared and overstimulated” was highlighted as a key cause of non-contact injuries. What steps can practitioners take to better prepare their patients and prevent this scenario?**
3. **Dr. Teter discusses the influence of social media and “influencers” on how people train. How do you address misinformation from social media with your patients or clients?**
4. **The traditional model stops at ‘maximum medical improvement’ (MMI). Dr. Teter argues that this isn’t enough. What changes could clinics implement to ensure patients are not only pain-free but also performance-ready?**
5. **How do you see the role of chiropractors, physical therapists, and athletic trainers evolving when integrated care teams use a shared operating algorithm, as Dr. Teter suggests?**
6. **Dr. Teter introduced the concept of having an algorithm-based approach and a clinical audit process. How might structured frameworks like these improve critical thinking and patient outcomes?**
7. **In the episode, Jessica Riddle brings up the ‘turf war’ between different providers on an athlete’s care team. What are strategies or best practices to foster collaboration and clarify roles?**
8. **Reflect on your own education or certifications. Do you feel there were gaps in training when it came to taking an athlete from injury all the way back to peak performance? How did you address or notice these?**
9. **The podcast mentions the importance of both local (site-specific) treatment and global (whole body, integrated) approaches. How do you balance the two in your assessments and treatment plans?**
10. **After listening to the episode, what steps do you think you could implement immediately in your own practice to better bridge the gap between rehab and performance for your patients?**
Feel free to use these questions to spark discussion in a classroom, study group, or even among colleagues in the clinic!
🪡 Threads by Instagram
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1. So many athletes get stuck in the cycle of injury because we're focused on just getting them out of pain, not truly preparing them for the demands ahead. It's time to shift from recovery to full performance in our rehab approach.
2. Dr. Tom Teter's framework bridges sports medicine and human performance—treatment shouldn't stop at pain relief, but carry athletes all the way back to sport, stronger and better prepared than before.
3. Social media shows us crazy fitness stunts, but skips the journey. Most people are underprepared and overstimulated, leading to avoidable injuries. Clinicians need to educate and guide, not just fix.
4. The missing link in sports rehab? True collaboration and clear roles among medical, movement, fitness, and coaching pros. Dr. Teter’s process gives every provider a seat at the table, and a job to own.
5. Critical thinking in clinical care means more than following a checklist. Dr. Teter’s algorithm gives structure so no step is missed, empowering providers to keep patients progressing beyond the basics.
Blog posts for podcast website prompt - main points
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**FAKTR Podcast Episode Recap: “The Missing Link in Sports Chiropractic & Rehab Education”
Part 1: Bridging the Gap—How Dr. Tom Teter is Redefining Clinical Performance**
In the first part of this special two-episode series on the FAKTR Podcast, host Jessica Riddle sits down with Dr. Tom Teter to explore a critical gap in sports chiropractic and rehab education: the divide between traditional injury-based care and true performance enhancement. Dr. Teter—whose unique journey started in strength and conditioning before pivoting to chiropractic—shares his insights on why so many athletes remain vulnerable to recurring injuries and how clinicians can move patients beyond pain and into sustained physical performance.
**Key Points from Part 1:**
**1. Dr. Teter’s Background and Inspiration**
Dr. Teter didn’t begin his career in chiropractic care; he started out in exercise science and strength and conditioning. When he noticed fit, strong athletes repeatedly getting hurt despite rigorous training, he began questioning what was missing. After a life-changing experience with chiropractic care (he went from severe neck pain to almost pain-free in one visit), he entered the field determined to blend the worlds of sports performance and clinical rehab.
**2. The Root Cause of Repetitive Injuries**
Dr. Teter repeatedly saw athletes and fitness enthusiasts who were “underprepared and overstimulated”—simply put, trying to do too much, too soon, without adequate physical preparation. Social media culture, he noted, compounds this by showcasing advanced exercises without context, encouraging people to skip necessary foundational steps. The result? A wave of non-contact musculoskeletal injuries among otherwise healthy individuals.
**3. The Traditional Rehab Process: What’s Missing?**
Jessica raises the scenario familiar to every rehab professional: an athlete gets hurt, enters rehab, reaches “maximum medical improvement” (MMI), and is set free—only to return later with the same injury. Dr. Teter argues that stopping at MMI is short-sighted. True recovery—especially for athletes—requires reconditioning the entire body, not merely rehabilitating a single injured tissue.
**4. Redefining Recovery and MMI**
Instead of releasing patients when the injured area has healed, Dr. Teter recommends providers look at the entire spectrum:
- Acute management and tissue healing
- Regaining local function
- Rebuilding global strength, coordination, and work capacity
- Preparing specifically for the demands of the patient’s sport or activity
**5. The Gap in Traditional Sports Medicine Education**
While foundational education (like the CCSP certification) does a great job of teaching acute care and basic rehab, it often stops short of addressing ongoing physical preparation and long-term performance enhancement. Dr. Teter’s experience exposed how even seasoned providers are left to patch together advanced knowledge through continuing ed or trial and error—creating ongoing inconsistencies in treatment outcomes.
**Major Takeaways:**
- **Preparation, not just healing, matters:** Getting patients out of pain isn’t enough. Full return to sport or activity requires intentional progression from injury through fitness and performance.
- **Social media is not a shortcut:** What looks impressive online often skips necessary steps critical for athletic safety and readiness.
- **Healthcare providers need new frameworks:** Most sports med certifications educate providers up to acute care and motor control, but leave out the transition back to peak performance.
**Looking Ahead to Part 2…**
As Dr. Teter shares, a true solution requires structure—a process that clinicians across disciplines can adopt and reproduce, ensuring no step in the athlete’s return is missed. In Part 2, Dr. Teter unveils the structured algorithms and frameworks he’s developed, showing how they revolutionize interdisciplinary teamwork and critical thinking for better, longer-lasting patient results.
Stay tuned for Part 2, where we dive deep into Dr. Teter’s actionable tools and collaborative team strategies!
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**FAKTR Podcast Episode Recap: “The Missing Link in Sports Chiropractic & Rehab Education”
Part 2: Frameworks, Algorithms, and Teamwork—A New Era of Clinical Human Performance**
The second part of our FAKTR Podcast special continues the conversation between Jessica Riddle and Dr. Tom Teter, focusing on the practical, step-by-step frameworks Dr. Teter has developed to transform care for athletes and active individuals. Dr. Teter explains why a reproducible, team-based system is critical—not just for providers, but for the long-term results of the patients they serve.
**Key Points from Part 2:**
**1. The Critical “What’s Next?” Question**
After initially helping patients out of pain and regaining movement, most healthcare providers are left asking, “What else can I do to serve this patient?” Dr. Teter says the answer lies in redefining MMI (maximum medical improvement) to include fitness restoration, not just pain elimination and tissue healing.
**2. The Operational Algorithm: A Blueprint for Care**
Dr. Teter introduces his operational algorithm—a decision tree for clinicians that starts with a simple question: “What can we do for you?” The pathway then splits into two distinct processes:
- The Clinical Audit Process (for patients in pain)
- The Fitness Audit Process (for those seeking performance enhancement)
Each process involves stepwise phases, from profiling client goals and needs to assessment, treatment/training planning, and periodic check-ins.
**3. Clinical Audit & Fitness Audit Processes Explained**
For patients in pain, Dr. Teter breaks care into six clear stages:
- Acute management
- Foundational kinematics
- Motor control
- Functional integration
- Progressive kinetics
- Fundamental capacity
For patients seeking fitness gains, the emphasis is on movement analysis, fitness assessments, and structured, personalized training plans—always with built-in reevaluation points to gauge progress and readiness.
**4. Critical Thinking & Collaborative Care**
One of the biggest gaps in traditional education is the lack of organized, reproducible frameworks. Dr. Teter’s system doesn’t limit clinician creativity—it ensures no crucial step is skipped and fosters clearer communication among providers with overlapping scopes.
**5. Multidisciplinary Team Roles—Ending the Turf War**
Dr. Teter highlights how clearly defining roles within an integrated sports care team—management, medical, movement (chiropractic/PT), fitness, skill coaches, and monitoring—reduces friction and confusion. By assigning each team member responsibility for specific stages of care, patient outcomes improve and providers can collaborate more effectively.
**Major Takeaways:**
- **Structure creates clarity and results:** Adopting stepwise algorithms takes clinical care from reactive to proactive, reducing reinjury and supporting both rehab and performance.
- **Teams win championships (and recoveries):** Successful care for athletes depends on clarity of roles and communication—avoiding duplicate efforts and missed steps.
- **Ongoing critical thinking is essential:** Clinicians must embrace frameworks that balance structure with adaptability, tailoring care not only for pain, but for the patient’s specific performance or life goals.
**How to Go Deeper:**
The episode closes with an invitation to clinicians: explore the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Certification, a comprehensive program designed to bridge rehab and high-performance care. With over 114 hours of content, it’s a blueprint for those ready to make lasting change in their practice and their patients’ lives.
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**Final Thoughts:**
Together, these two episodes lay out a vision for a new era in clinical rehab and sports performance—one where healthcare providers are equipped not just to treat injury, but to optimize health and performance for the long haul. If you’re ready to make the leap, check out the resources mentioned in the show, and stay tuned for more practical insights from FAKTR Podcast!
Blog posts for podcast website prompt - main points
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Absolutely! Below are three blog posts summarizing the interview with Dr. Tom Teter on the FAKTR Podcast, split into three logical “episodes” based on the transcript flow. Each post includes a summary, key points, and main takeaways.
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### FAKTR Podcast Episode Recap: The Missing Link in Sports Chiropractic & Rehab – Part 1
#### Introduction
Welcome to the first installment of our deep dive into sports chiropractic, rehab, and human performance with Dr. Tom Teter, as featured on the FAKTR Podcast. In this episode, host Jessica Riddle sits down with Dr. Teter to explore how his unique background in strength and conditioning, coupled with clinical experience, drove him to bridge key gaps in sports medicine.
#### Key Discussion Points
- **Dr. Teter’s Journey Into Chiropractic**
- Started with a degree in exercise science, becoming a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist.
- Observed many fit and strong athletes enduring chronic, recurring injuries, sparking his curiosity about injury mechanisms beyond just strength.
- Personal experience with severe neck pain and a transformative chiropractic visit led him to pursue chiropractic school.
- **Recognizing and Addressing Education Gaps**
- During his time as a university professor and working with athletes, Dr. Teter noticed a disconnect between sports medicine, clinical practice, and actual sports performance.
- Developed frameworks and solutions for real-world athletic problems that traditional clinical education wasn’t covering.
- **Why Do Athletes Keep Getting Injured?**
- The majority of non-contact sports injuries stem from athletes being “underprepared and grossly overstimulated.”
- Many set ambitious goals but begin training without the necessary preparation—social media often magnifies this by showing extreme versions of exercises without showing the progression needed.
- Emphasizes clinicians’ roles in dispelling misinformation around human performance.
- **Underpreparedness vs. Overstimulation**
- Frequent injuries occur when athletes push beyond their current capacities (e.g., running more than double their usual distance).
- Overtraining, without gradual progression or adequate preparation, quickly leads to injury.
#### Main Takeaways
- **Clinical education often stops at pain relief or getting the patient back to pre-injury status.**
- **“Preparation meets opportunity”—most injuries are preventable with more comprehensive, progressive prep.**
- **Social media and misinformation can encourage unsafe practices among fitness enthusiasts.**
- **Sports chiropractors and clinicians have a responsibility to educate athletes about proper preparation, progression, and sustainable performance gains.**
Stay tuned for the next part, where we’ll dig into Dr. Teter’s operational algorithms and how his model pushes patient recovery beyond classical rehabilitation.
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### FAKTR Podcast Episode Recap: The Missing Link in Sports Chiropractic & Rehab – Part 2
#### Introduction
Welcome back to part two of our FAKTR Podcast summary featuring Dr. Tom Teter. In this continuation, we venture deeper into how sports rehab often falls short, why “maximum medical improvement” isn’t enough, and how Dr. Teter suggests redefining success in athletic recovery.
#### Key Discussion Points
- **Traditional Approach to Recovery**
- Most healthcare providers are brought in only after the injury: pain, strain, or trauma has occurred.
- Standard practice involves exam, diagnosis, and a treatment plan, ending when the patient is pain-free or back to pre-injury baseline—“maximum medical improvement” (MMI).
- **Limitations of MMI**
- Dr. Teter argues that MMI is defined too narrowly, usually meaning “no more pain and can move again.”
- True recovery must include regaining global strength, sport-specific functional integration, and work capacity necessary for peak performance—especially for athletes.
- **Reverse Engineering the Recovery Process**
- He emphasizes starting with the end goal (e.g., return to competition) and working backward through every necessary step: from the treatment table to the playing field.
- Skipping performance and fitness rebuilding leads to underprepared athletes, high rates of re-injury, and frustration for both provider and patient.
- **Educational Gaps in Sports Medicine**
- Chiropractic and physical therapy programs focus primarily on passing boards, basic diagnosis, and foundational skills.
- Sports certifications (like the CCSP for chiropractors) excel at acute management and immediate post-injury care but often neglect the latter stages—strength, integration, capacity building.
- Dr. Teter’s model aims to fill in the “what’s next?” with structured pathways from rehab to high performance.
#### Main Takeaways
- **Recovery isn’t complete at MMI; athletes need preparation for real-world sport demands.**
- **A comprehensive care model should bridge clinical rehab with high-level performance, not just pain elimination.**
- **Chiropractic and rehab education must evolve to address the post-MMI phases for athletes and active individuals.**
- **Reverse-engineering the athlete’s journey from competition back to injury accelerates optimal, sustainable outcomes.**
Next, we’ll explore Dr. Teter's practical frameworks—including algorithms and multidisciplinary teamwork—that make this enhanced approach possible.
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### FAKTR Podcast Episode Recap: The Missing Link in Sports Chiropractic & Rehab – Part 3
#### Introduction
In this final part of our three-part series recapping the FAKTR Podcast with Dr. Tom Teter, we dive into his systems-based approach to rehabilitation and performance, and how it transforms the care team dynamic.
#### Key Discussion Points
- **Critical Thinking and Frameworks in Clinical Practice**
- Dr. Teter identifies a lack of organized decision-making frameworks among clinicians, especially when dealing with performance-minded patients.
- Introduces an “operating algorithm” used to streamline both injury (painful) and performance (non-painful) cases.
- This algorithm begins with a simple question: “What can we do for you?”, branching into two distinct pathways for pain or performance.
- **Clinical Audit Process**
- For patients with pain, the process covers: building a patient profile, needs analysis (what qualities does their sport demand?), thorough exam, diagnosis, and a multi-stage treatment plan.
- Treatment plan stretches across acute management, foundational kinematics, motor control, functional integration, progressive kinetics, and fundamental capacity.
- **Fitness Audit Process**
- For those focused on performance goals (not pain), it includes a client profile, needs analysis, health/movement/fitness assessments, and a training plan—all with periodic checkpoints.
- **Structure for Team Collaboration**
- Dr. Teter describes the ideal integrated sports care team: management, medical (especially athletic trainer), movement specialists (chiro/PT), fitness staff (strength & conditioning), skill coaches, and sports science/load monitoring.
- Using a shared framework clarifies roles, promotes collaboration, and eliminates “turf wars”.
- In his experience, knowing who does what—and when to pass the baton—makes multidisciplinary teamwork effective.
- Adaptable to any setting, this method keeps everyone accountable and ensures athletes don’t slip through the cracks.
#### Main Takeaways
- **Clear frameworks and algorithms allow for reproducible, high-quality care—beyond just seeing what works “by feel.”**
- **Everyone on the sports medicine/performance team benefits from knowing their distinct roles.**
- **Dr. Teter’s model empowers clinicians to move seamlessly between pain management, rehabilitation, and optimizing athletic performance.**
- **Collaboration (not competition) among providers means better outcomes for athletes and regular patients alike.**
#### Want to Learn More?
If you’re inspired by Dr. Teter’s model, check out the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Certification offered by FAKTR. This comprehensive program provides a deeper look at the frameworks and skills discussed in the podcast, with real-world tools to bridge the gap between rehab and performance.
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**Stay tuned for more FAKTR Podcast insights and practical strategies for delivering the care your patients deserve!**
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✅ Are you just rehabbing injuries… or actually unlocking your patients’ performance potential?
✅ On the latest FAKTR Podcast, host Jessica Riddle sits down with Dr. Tom Teter to reveal the BIG gap in sports chiropractic and rehab education that’s holding providers—and their athletes—back.
✅ Discover why “maximum medical improvement” isn’t enough, how social media myths are fueling injuries, and a new, actionable framework that bridges rehab and real performance.
✅ Build a smarter, more collaborative practice and help your patients come back stronger than ever. Ready to rethink recovery? Listen to the full episode now—your approach will never be the same! #sportschiro #FAKTRpodcast #rehab2performance
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**Subject:** New FAKTR Podcast Episode—Discover the Missing Link in Sports Rehab! 🏋️♂️
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Hey FAKTR fam!
We just dropped a brand new episode of the FAKTR Podcast, and you do *not* want to miss this one. Jessica Riddle sits down with Dr. Tom Teter—a clinician, professor, and strength & conditioning specialist—who’s making waves with his innovative approach to sports chiropractic and athletic rehab. If you’ve ever wondered how to take athletes (or everyday active folks) *beyond* just recovery, this is your episode!
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### 5 Keys You’ll Learn in This Episode:
1. **Bridging the Gap:** Why typical sports med certifications leave clinicians stuck—and the actionable strategies Dr. Teter uses to move patients from pain to peak performance.
2. **The Real Root of Injuries:** How underprepared athletes + overstimulation (thanks, TikTok culture!) wreak havoc—and what to do about it.
3. **Redefining Recovery:** Why “maximum medical improvement” isn’t the finish line, and how to create a roadmap that actually gets active people better, faster, and stronger.
4. **Dr. Teter’s Critical Thinking Framework:** Discover his algorithm for streamlining patient care, breaking down silos between providers, and achieving consistent results—whether you’re working solo or as part of an integrated sports medicine team.
5. **Winning at Teamwork:** How a clear structure for roles (from ATCs to PTs to chiropractors) helps clinics and sports departments avoid the dreaded “turf war” and deliver next-level care to their athletes.
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### Fun Fact From the Episode
Dr. Tom Teter confessed that he’s taken the FAKTR course… *five* times! (Talk about commitment to learning.) He originally dove deep into clinical performance because he was driven by his own *severe* neck pain—and a single chiropractic visit left him “virtually pain free.” That personal transformation set him on this whole path.
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### Ready to Tune In?
Whether you’re fresh out of school and hungry to do more, or a seasoned provider looking to step up your sports rehab game, this episode is packed with insights you can immediately use in practice. You'll rethink what it means to truly help your patients—and how to position yourself as a go-to leader in performance care.
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### 🎧 Listen now—and take your patient results (and practice!) to the next level.
P.S. Want to go deeper? Check out Dr. Teter's Clinical Human Performance Practitioner certification—a comprehensive program to help you bridge the gap between rehab and performance. Details are in the show notes!
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Catch you next time,
*The FAKTR Team*
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🎓 Lessons Learned
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Absolutely! Here are 10 key lessons covered in the FAKTR Podcast episode "faktr_103," each with a concise title and brief description:
1. **Bridging Rehab and Performance**
Explores the need to connect sports medicine and human performance for athletes’ lasting improvement beyond basic injury recovery.
2. **Identifying Gaps in Education**
Examines common shortcomings in traditional sports chiropractic and rehab education, particularly related to serving athletic populations.
3. **Importance of Preparation**
Highlights how most injuries stem from athletes being underprepared and overstimulated when attempting demanding physical tasks.
4. **Risks of Social Media Culture**
Discusses how social media often encourages risky, advanced exercises, contributing to preventable injuries among fitness enthusiasts.
5. **Redefining Maximum Medical Improvement**
Proposes expanding MMI to include fitness and work capacity, not just pain reduction, for full athletic recovery.
6. **Beyond Localized Treatment**
Emphasizes moving past treating isolated injuries and focusing on global movement patterns and overall athletic ability.
7. **Structured Critical Thinking Framework**
Introduces Dr. Teter’s algorithm and audit processes for making systematic, reproducible clinical decisions in practice.
8. **Collaborative Integrated Care Teams**
Outlines the benefits and structure of multidisciplinary teams—management, medical, movement, fitness, skill, and sports science—in athlete care.
9. **Role Clarity to Avoid Turf Wars**
Describes how defined team roles and processes help prevent conflicts among providers and improve patient outcomes.
10. **Continuous Provider Education**
Stresses the importance of ongoing learning and advanced training to fill post-graduate gaps and enhance care for active populations.
Let me know if you’d like a deeper dive into any of these lessons!
🔮 Custom Titles
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Absolutely! Here are some exciting clickbait-style titles for this episode based on the transcript:
**FAKTR Podcast: Dr. Tom Teter – The Hidden Gaps in Sports Rehab They Never Taught You (and How to Fix Them!)**
**FAKTR Podcast: Dr. Tom Teter – Why Most Athletes Stay Injured: The Ultimate Game-Changing Rehab Framework**
**FAKTR Podcast: Dr. Tom Teter – From Injury to Elite Performance: Unlocking the Secrets Sports Certifications Miss**
**FAKTR Podcast: Dr. Tom Teter – Breakthrough Rehab Secrets: Outperforming the Outdated Sports Med Model**
**FAKTR Podcast: Dr. Tom Teter – Stop Letting Your Athletes Down: The Missing Link in Chiropractic and Rehab**
Let me know if you want more options, or if you’d like titles for any other guests in future episodes!
📓 Blog Post
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**Title:**
Bridging the Gap: Redefining Recovery and Performance in Sports Chiropractic and Rehab
**Subheader:**
How Dr. Tom Teter’s Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Model Is Changing the Game for Providers and Patients
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### Introduction: A New Approach to Sports Chiropractic
In a landscape where athletic injuries are common and recovery protocols often fall short, a fundamental shift is taking place. On the FAKTR Podcast, host Jessica Riddle sits down with Dr. Tom Teter, a practitioner blending strength and conditioning expertise with clinical and teaching experience, to discuss the missing link in sports chiropractic and rehabilitation. Together, they unpack the persistent gap between traditional clinical education and the practical demands of serving athletes and active individuals. Dr. Teter’s innovative Clinical Human Performance Practitioner (CHPP) model offers a cohesive, systematic approach to not only help patients recover from injury but to truly optimize their long-term performance.
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### The Roots of Recurring Injury: Underprepared and Overstimulated Athletes
Dr. Teter’s journey started with a background in exercise science and strength and conditioning, well before chiropractic school. His early experience revealed a recurring problem—athletes who were strong and fit, yet plagued by repeated injuries. The culprit, Dr. Teter argues, is a dual issue: people are chronically underprepared for the demands they place on their bodies and grossly overstimulated, often attempting feats they haven’t properly trained for. Social media stokes the fire, with influencers sharing only the most extreme, advanced exercises without the preparatory steps it actually takes to get there, leading many to skip essential progressions and wind up hurt.
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### The Traditional Path: Where It Falls Short
The standard clinical process is familiar—an athlete gets injured, seeks care, is diagnosed and treated, and ultimately discharged once they reach so-called "Maximum Medical Improvement" (MMI). However, as Jessica Riddle and Dr. Teter discuss, this model leaves athletes just back at their pre-injury state—at best. Too often, discharged athletes return later with the same injury or a related one, signaling an incomplete recovery process. The missing piece? A fuller spectrum that extends beyond MMI to incorporate rebuilding fitness, integrating functional movements, and restoring true work capacity so an athlete is not just “better,” but genuinely ready to excel in their sport.
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### Human Performance as a Continuum: Dr. Teter’s Six Stages of Rehabilitation
The CHPP framework Dr. Teter developed is designed to fully bridge the divide between sports medicine and sports performance. It emphasizes that providers must redefine MMI to include physical fitness and functional capacity relevant to the athlete’s specific goals. Dr. Teter details a six-stage rehab model:
1. **Acute Management:** Immediate care of the injury.
2. **Foundational Kinematics:** Restoring basic movement and joint mechanics.
3. **Motor Control:** Re-educating patterns for efficient, pain-free function.
4. **Functional Integration:** Connecting tissue-specific healing to whole-body movement.
5. **Progressive Kinetics:** Gradually increasing load, speed, and complexity.
6. **Fundamental Capacity:** Restoring (or exceeding) sport-specific work capacity and performance.
By “reverse engineering” the process—starting with the athlete’s end goal and working backward—practitioners can create truly individualized, performance-driven recovery plans.
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### Structured Critical Thinking and Collaboration: The Operational Algorithm
A standout component of Dr. Teter’s system is its commitment to structured critical thinking through operational algorithms that guide both assessment and intervention. The process begins by asking the patient what they want to achieve, then splits into two paths: one for pain/injury and one for performance optimization. For pain, providers follow a clinical audit process, while the fitness track utilizes a targeted audit to set and reach performance goals. This clarity helps ensure no crucial steps are skipped—making outcomes more consistent and reproducible.
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### Breaking Down Silos: Working Across Integrated Care Teams
Perhaps nothing is more challenging than navigating the “turf wars” that can arise when multiple providers—chiropractors, physical therapists, strength coaches, athletic trainers—are all involved in an athlete’s care. Dr. Teter’s system delineates clear roles for each member of the team, from acute management to movement and fitness, ensuring collaboration rather than confusion. This fosters a true integrated support environment—vital for both elite sports programs and individual patient success.
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### Conclusion: From Injury to Optimization
The message from Dr. Teter’s approach is clear: recovery shouldn’t end when the pain does. To serve athletes and active individuals best, clinicians must shift from simply repairing injuries to maximizing performance, using structured, collaborative frameworks. The Clinical Human Performance Practitioner certification, as highlighted in the FAKTR Podcast, empowers providers to deliver on this promise—bridging the gap and raising the standard of sports care.
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**Ready to go deeper?**
If you want to learn more about the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner model, visit [online.sports-seminars.com](https://online.sports-seminars.com) or click the link in the FAKTR Podcast show notes for details on their comprehensive certification program.
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🧲 Lead Magnet
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**PROMOTIONAL POST:**
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🚀 Are you a health care provider passionate about sports rehab, athlete care, and performance-driven results?
You know the feeling: patients get back to “normal” after injury, but soon enough, they’re back with the same issue. What if you could confidently bridge the gap between rehab and human performance—guiding your athlete patients not just back to their baseline, but towards optimization and long-term resilience?
In the latest FAKTR Podcast episode, Dr. Tom Teter unveils a powerful, algorithm-based clinical framework that seamlessly connects recovery, rehabilitation, and high-level athletic performance. Discover why traditional sports med certifications often stop short—and how you can set yourself apart with a system that offers both structure AND flexibility for real, reproducible results!
👉 Learn how to:
- Redefine “maximum medical improvement”—and take your patients beyond it.
- Implement a clear, step-by-step process to minimize reinjury and maximize progress.
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- Build a reputation for helping patients achieve AND exceed their goals.
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**LEAD MAGNET:**
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- Identify the *real* gaps in your care process
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- Stop missing key steps that make or break outcomes
- Enhance collaboration with the whole care team
**What’s inside:**
- The 6 stages of rehabilitation that take patients ALL the way back to the field, not just the treatment table
- The must-ask questions to clarify goals and personalize your plan
- A plug-and-play audit checklist for both painful and performance-oriented cases
- The Integrated Sports Team Blueprint—who does what, when, and why
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*Ready to level up your practice? Listen to the episode, share with your colleagues, and download your roadmap—your patients will thank you!*
📖 Host Read Intro
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Hey there! On today’s FAKTR Podcast, we’re diving into the missing link in sports chiropractic and rehab with Dr. Tom Teter. If you've ever felt like rehab and performance don’t quite connect, this episode’s for you. Let’s get into it!
🔘 Best Practices Guide
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**Best Practices for Bridging the Gap in Sports Chiropractic and Rehab**
1. **Redefine Recovery:** Don’t stop at pain relief or “maximum medical improvement.” Guide patients beyond injury, focusing on long-term performance and fitness.
2. **Structured Assessment:** Use a clear operational algorithm—start by asking, “What can we do for you?” and direct care down pain or performance pathways with specific audit processes for each.
3. **Comprehensive Rehab:** Address both local injuries and global movement patterns. Integrate acute management, kinematics, motor control, functional integration, progressive kinetics, and fundamental capacity.
4. **Reverse Engineer Goals:** Identify the patient’s end-goal (e.g., sport-specific demands) and work backward to build a tailored, progressive plan.
5. **Collaborate Effectively:** Define roles within the care team—management, medical, movement, fitness, skills, and sports science. Clear processes reduce turf wars and improve patient outcomes.
6. **Continuous Education:** Fill traditional gaps with advanced frameworks and stay updated through structured certifications for clinical human performance.
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Absolutely! Here’s a 10-question quiz based on the content from the provided FAKTR Podcast episode transcript, along with an answer key and rationales for each answer.
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### FAKTR Podcast Episode 103 Quiz
**1. What was one of the main motivations for Dr. Tom Teter to pursue a career in chiropractic?**
A) He always wanted to work with children
B) He had a personal injury experience and positive chiropractic care
C) He wanted to open a chain of gyms
D) He disliked working in the fitness industry
**2. What major gap did Dr. Teter notice in sports medicine and clinical education?**
A) Lack of basic medical knowledge
B) Insufficient understanding of human anatomy
C) Disconnect between sports medicine and sports performance
D) Too much focus on strength training
**3. According to Dr. Teter, what are two main reasons athletes often get injured?**
A) Overhydration and lack of motivation
B) Being underprepared and grossly overstimulated
C) Lack of equipment and poor lighting
D) Excessive rest and poor nutrition
**4. How does social media contribute to sports-related injuries, according to Dr. Teter?**
A) By promoting healthy workouts only
B) By encouraging simple, beginner routines
C) By showing advanced exercises without proper progression steps
D) By offering too many educational resources
**5. What does Dr. Teter say often happens once a patient reaches maximum medical improvement (MMI)?**
A) Patients are enrolled in advanced rehab
B) Providers typically discharge the patient
C) Patients immediately join another healthcare program
D) They are given a fitness test
**6. Where does Dr. Teter see the need for improvement in traditional sports med certifications like the CCSP?**
A) In teaching acute injury management only
B) In developing business marketing skills
C) In bridging the gap between rehab and long-term performance
D) In manual therapy technique mastery
**7. Dr. Teter outlines an algorithm for treating patients. What is the key difference in his approach for painful versus non-painful presentations?**
A) Painful cases go to surgery first
B) Painful cases follow a clinical audit process, while non-painful cases follow a fitness audit process
C) Only non-painful cases are treated in his office
D) Painful cases are referred out immediately
**8. In Dr. Teter’s clinic framework, who is typically the most important figure in the athletic healthcare team?**
A) The head coach
B) The nutritionist
C) The athletic trainer
D) The business manager
**9. What is Dr. Teter’s recommended strategy for collaborative care in integrated sports environments?**
A) Ignore the roles of other team members
B) Clearly define roles using an operational algorithm
C) Only use chiropractors and physical therapists
D) Let everyone provide the same treatments
**10. What does the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner certification aim to do for providers?**
A) Replace all existing certifications
B) Focus on business skills
C) Bridge the gap between rehab and performance with structure and reproducible processes
D) Eliminate the need for teamwork
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### Answer Key and Rationales
**1. B** – Dr. Teter shared that a personal experience with neck pain and a successful chiropractic treatment inspired him to explore chiropractic as a profession.
**2. C** – He observed a significant gap between sports medicine (injury recovery) and performance (long-term improvement).
**3. B** – Dr. Teter repeatedly mentioned most injuries come from being underprepared for activity and being grossly overstimulated (too much load/work too soon).
**4. C** – Social media, according to Dr. Teter, often promotes advanced exercises without showing progressions. People try them without being ready, resulting in injuries.
**5. B** – Most healthcare providers stop at MMI and discharge patients, even though the patient might not be truly ready to return to full activity or sport.
**6. C** – Dr. Teter finds the CCSP great for acute management, but feels it stops short of the performance side, leaving a gap in helping patients go beyond just recovery.
**7. B** – His algorithm directs painful cases through a clinical audit (focused on treatment and rehab) and non-painful/fitness goals through a fitness audit (focused on performance and enhancement).
**8. C** – The athletic trainer serves as the triage professional and first point of contact, making them the most central in the team framework outlined.
**9. B** – Clearly defined operational algorithms and defined roles ensure everyone knows their responsibilities, which minimizes confusion and conflict in multidisciplinary teams.
**10. C** – The new certification is designed to provide a structured, reproducible framework to bridge between injury rehab and long-term human performance, not just business or replacement of existing certifications.
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Let me know if you need more detailed questions or wish to expand on any topics!
📧 Podcast Thank You Email
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Subject: Huge Thanks for Joining Us on the FAKTR Podcast!
Hey Dr. Teter,
Just wanted to drop you a quick note to say a big THANK YOU for coming on the show. I had such a great time chatting with you and digging into all things clinical human performance. Your passion and practical insights really came through—I've already heard from listeners who are rethinking how they help athletes go beyond just getting out of pain.
Wanted to let you know that the episode is officially published! 🎉 You can find it live wherever podcasts are streamed, and I’ve included links in the show notes to make it easy for folks to check out your certification and connect with you.
If you're up for it, sharing the episode and engaging with the posts about it on social media can go a long way in spreading the word and inspiring other providers. Feel free to tag us so we can help amplify the message!
Thanks again for being such an awesome guest (seriously, we need to do this again soon). Stay in touch, and let me know if there's anything else I can do to support your work.
Talk soon,
Jessica
🔑 Key Themes
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Absolutely! Here are 7 key themes discussed in this episode:
1. Closing the gap between rehab and performance
2. Limitations of traditional sports med education
3. Importance of structured collaborative care teams
4. Underprepared and overstimulated athletes’ injuries
5. Redefining maximum medical improvement (MMI)
6. Algorithmic frameworks for clinical decision-making
7. Communication and roles on integrated sports teams
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**10 Tips Every Sports Rehab Pro Needs to Know**
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**1. Bridge the Gaps**
Go beyond traditional rehab education. Integrate sports medicine with performance for optimal recovery and results.
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**2. Identify Underpreparation**
Most injuries occur because athletes are underprepared for their goals. Build foundational strength before progressing.
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**3. Beware Overload**
Avoid overstimulating your athletes. Progress load gradually to reduce injury from “too much, too soon.”
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**4. Challenge Social Media Trends**
Don’t let clients copy advanced moves they see online. Teach proper progressions and prerequisites.
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**5. Redefine Recovery**
Maximum medical improvement isn’t enough. Strive to return patients even stronger than before the injury.
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**6. Think Globally**
Look beyond local injuries. Address global strength, movement patterns, and sport-specific skills.
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**7. Use Structured Algorithms**
Adopt an operational algorithm for consistent, thorough assessments—painful and non-painful cases included.
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**8. Collaborate Clearly**
Define everyone’s role on the care team. Structure leads to less conflict and better patient outcomes.
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**9. Never Stop at “No Pain”**
Pain-free doesn’t mean performance-ready. Guide patients through full return-to-sport or activity protocols.
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**10. Keep Learning**
Focus on critical thinking, clear frameworks, and upgrade your skills continually to serve athletes best.
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**Ready to level up?**
Learn more about the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Certification and join the FAKTR movement.
👉 Visit online.sports-seminars.com to get started!
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✅ Are you truly taking your athletes *from recovery to real performance*—or just sending them back to square one?
✅ Dr. Tom Teter reveals the game-changing framework behind closing the gap between sports rehab and long-term performance in the latest FAKTR Podcast episode with host Jessica Riddle.
✅ Discover why traditional clinical education leaves providers—and athletes—underprepared, and how an algorithmic approach can get patients better, faster, and keep them there.
✅ Don’t just settle for maximum medical improvement—learn to build better athletes and a better practice. Listen now and start redefining your results!
🎧 Tune in to the FAKTR Podcast, episode "faktr_103" with Jessica Riddle and Dr. Tom Teter!
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**10 Tips Every Sports Rehab Provider Needs to Know**
(from the FAKTR Podcast with Dr. Tom Teter)
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**1. Bridge the Gap**
Recognize the disconnect between sports medicine and performance. Aim to take patients from injury through to true optimization.
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**2. Underprepared + Overstimulated**
Most injuries occur when people do too much, too soon—before their bodies are ready for that level of stress.
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**3. Go Beyond Pain**
Don’t stop at pain relief. Return patients to function, strength, and real-world performance, not just comfort.
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**4. Rethink MMI**
Maximum Medical Improvement isn’t the finish line; true recovery also means regaining fitness and sport-specific skills.
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**5. Work Backwards**
Start your care plan with the end goal in mind, then reverse-engineer each step needed to get there.
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**6. Don’t Skip Steps**
Many providers miss critical stages—ensure your rehab covers acute care, motor control, strength, and capacity building.
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**7. Audit Your Process**
Use structured clinical and fitness audit processes to track patient progress and guide decision making.
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**8. Team Integration**
Play nice in the sandbox. Define roles within your athlete's care team to avoid “turf wars” and maximize results.
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**9. Critical Thinking Wins**
Follow frameworks, but stay adaptable. Combine evidence, assessment, and individualized care for the best outcomes.
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**10. Keep Learning**
Stay ahead by leveling up your skills beyond initial certifications—chase systems that deliver reproducible results.
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**Want more practical performance strategies?**
Check out the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Certification at online.sports-seminars.com and follow @faktrpodcast for more insights!
📖 Host Read Intro
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Hey there! Before we dive into today’s episode of the FAKTR Podcast, get ready for some real talk about the gaps in sports rehab education, how to go beyond just fixing pain, and what it really takes to get your patients performing at their best. Dr. Tom Teter is joining us to share his game-changing approach—trust me, you won’t want to miss this one!
🎒 Session Worksheet
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Absolutely! Here’s a worksheet designed to help listeners reinforce and apply the key concepts discussed in this episode of the FAKTR Podcast (“The Missing Link in Sports Chiropractic and Rehab Education” with Dr. Tom Teter). Feel free to use it for self-reflection, group discussion, or as a study resource.
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### FAKTR Podcast Episode 103: Worksheet
**Topic:** Bridging the Gap in Sports Chiropractic & Rehab Education
**Featuring:** Dr. Tom Teter
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#### 1. Reflect on Experience
- In the episode, Dr. Teter describes noticing recurring injuries in athletes.
**Question:**
Have you observed recurring injuries with your own patients or clients, or even in your personal experience?
- What patterns did you notice?
- What do you think may have contributed to these repeat injuries?
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#### 2. Underprepared & Overstimulated
- Dr. Teter mentions that many athletes are “underprepared for what they're trying to do, and grossly overstimulated.”
**Questions:**
- In your own words, what does it mean for someone to be ‘underprepared’ and ‘overstimulated’ in a fitness context?
- Can you give an example (real or hypothetical) that illustrates this combination?
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#### 3. Social Media & Misinformation
- The conversation touches on how social media sometimes encourages dangerous fitness trends.
**Activity:**
- List two ways you think social media influences injury risk or misunderstanding of performance training.
- How might you educate patients to critically evaluate what they see online?
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#### 4. Rethinking Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI)
- Dr. Teter suggests that healthcare providers often release patients at “maximum medical improvement”—but before they’ve regained full fitness or performance capacity.
**Discussion Points:**
- How would you redefine ‘recovery’ or MMI to better serve athletes and active individuals?
- What additional steps could be added to a patient’s plan to prepare them for return to sport/activity?
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#### 5. The Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Model
- The episode describes an algorithmic approach with distinct pathways for patients with pain versus those with fitness goals.
**Exercises:**
- Sketch or describe the two main branches of Dr. Teter’s operational algorithm (Pain/Clinical vs. Performance/Fitness).
- List at least two benefits of using an organized, reproducible framework in a clinical or team setting.
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#### 6. Integrated Care Teams
- Dr. Teter emphasizes the importance of clear roles on interdisciplinary teams, and shares how a structured approach helps “play nice in the sandbox.”
**Scenario:**
- Imagine you’re working with a team made up of a chiropractor, physical therapist, athletic trainer, and coach. How would you clarify roles to avoid overlap and ensure the athlete receives optimal care?
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#### 7. Critical Thinking & Auditing Your Process
- “We’re just trying to give it structure so you’re not missing any steps…”
**Activity:**
- Reflect on a recent case (real or imagined) where a patient plateaued or relapsed after discharge.
- Using Dr. Teter’s process (patient profile, needs analysis, assessment, plan, review), identify which step(s) may have been missed, and outline what you would do differently.
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#### 8. Action Steps
- Based on what you learned in this episode, identify at least one area in your clinical practice or education that you’d like to improve or investigate further.
- What’s your first step?
- Who might you collaborate with, or what resources will you seek out?
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**BONUS:**
- If you’re interested in tools that help bridge rehab and performance, check out the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Certification described at the end of the episode.
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**For Discussion or Submission:**
Bring your completed worksheet to your next team meeting, study group, or supervision session and discuss your insights!
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Subject: New FAKTR Podcast Episode: Bridging the Gap in Sports Rehab & Performance 🚀
Hey FAKTR Fam!
We've just dropped a brand new episode of the FAKTR Podcast, and trust us—you don't want to miss this one. 🎙️ This week, host Jessica Riddle is joined by Dr. Tom Teter, a trailblazer who’s shaking up sports chiropractic and rehab education. Together, they dive deep into the real-world challenges of helping athletes and active folks not just recover, but truly perform their best long-term. If you’ve ever wondered what’s missing in traditional sports rehab or how to take your clinical and business game to the next level, this episode’s got you covered!
Here are 5 keys you’ll learn in this episode:
1. The Surprising Gap in Sports Med Certifications
Dr. Teter breaks down why current certifications like the CCSP and traditional education often stop short—and what critical pieces you’re missing if you want to keep athletes performing, not just pain-free.
2. The Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Model
Discover the “what’s next” approach that takes your patients beyond recovery, using a structured, algorithm-based framework for long-term success.
3. How to Avoid the Cycle of Repeat Injuries
Learn why so many athletes keep landing back in your office with the same problems, and how you can be the game-changer who breaks that cycle for good.
4. Building Collaborative, Winning Care Teams
Dr. Teter shares his method for working smoothly with PTs, athletic trainers, coaches, and more—without turf wars and confusion over who does what.
5. Real-World Solutions from the Field
Get actionable strategies (not just theory!) that Dr. Teter developed in the trenches working with university athletic departments and high-level athletes.
Fun Fact from the Episode:
Did you know Dr. Teter actually got into chiropractic after a “wizard magic” neck treatment that left him nearly pain-free in just one visit? It totally changed his career path—and sparked his mission to redefine what full recovery really looks like!
Before You Go…
If you’re ready to move beyond “just getting people out of pain” and start truly optimizing patient performance, you won’t want to miss this episode. Plus, we’ve got info about Dr. Teter’s Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Certification—think 12 courses, over 100 hours of content, and everything you need to build your own high-performing system.
🎧 LISTEN NOW: [Insert Podcast Link]
📢 Call to Action:
Love what you hear? Share the FAKTR Podcast with your colleagues, classmates, or anyone who’s obsessed with helping their patients achieve more. Don’t forget to subscribe, follow us on your fave podcast platform, and visit our website for upcoming courses, live events, and even more resources.
Thanks for being part of our community—here’s to building better, not just fixing broken!
See you next episode,
The FAKTR Team
P.S. Interested in taking your practice from rehab to remarkable? Check out all the details on the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Certification right here: [Insert Certification Link]
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✅ Ready to break the cycle of recurring sports injuries?
✅ Discover why most rehab stops too soon—and how top experts get athletes back performing better than ever.
✅ On the latest episode of the FAKTR Podcast, host Jessica Riddle sits down with Dr. Tom Teter to reveal the missing link between injury recovery and long-term athletic performance. Together, they dive into critical gaps in sports chiropractic and rehab education, Dr. Teter's game-changing framework, and practical strategies you can apply right away—whether you're just starting out or a seasoned pro.
✅ Takeaway: If you want to bridge the gap between rehab and real performance (and keep your patients coming back stronger), this episode is your next unmissable listen. Tune in now to get ahead of the curve! #FAKTRPodcast #SportsChiropractic #RehabToPerformance
Conversation Starters
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Absolutely! Here are 10 conversation starters you can post in your Facebook group to get people talking about this episode of the FAKTR Podcast:
1. **Dr. Teter talks about redefining “maximum medical improvement” (MMI) to include fitness capacity, not just getting out of pain. How do you approach MMI in your practice? Do you feel most providers discharge too early?**
2. **Jessica and Dr. Teter discuss the “missing link” in sports rehab—bridging the gap between getting patients out of pain and preparing them for real-life performance. What strategies do you use to make sure your patients don’t just recover, but truly thrive after injury?**
3. **Dr. Teter mentions social media’s role in pushing people toward advanced, risky exercises before they’re ready. Have you seen this with your own patients or clients? Any wild stories to share?**
4. **In the episode, there’s mention of a structured algorithm and clinical audit process to guide decision-making in sports rehab. Does your clinic use any kind of algorithm or checklist? How structured vs. flexible is your typical patient journey?**
5. **One key point is the value of collaboration—and knowing everyone’s role—when working in an integrated health care team. For those of you in multi-disciplinary settings, what are your best tips for “playing nice in the sandbox”?**
6. **Dr. Teter believes that a lack of preparation and overstimulation are major causes of athletic injury. How do you assess your patients’ readiness for activity beyond traditional injury checks?**
7. **What’s your biggest challenge in taking a patient from ‘out of pain’ to ‘optimized performance’? Are there tools, courses, or frameworks that have helped you bridge this gap?**
8. **The episode highlighted that sports med certifications often don’t cover the full progression to long-term performance. Have you felt gaps in your education after a CCSP or similar certification? How did you fill them?**
9. **Dr. Teter describes having a “reverse engineering” mindset—starting from the end goal (competition) and working backward. Has this approach changed your outcomes? Would you recommend it? Why or why not?**
10. **For those who have worked with athletic teams: Do you agree that the athletic trainer is the most vital link on the care team, as Dr. Teter suggests? Why or why not, and how is responsibility usually divided on your teams?**
Feel free to copy any of these directly or use them as inspiration to spark deeper discussion in your group!
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**10 Tips Every Sports Rehab Clinician Needs to Know**
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**1. Bridge the Gap**
Unite rehab and performance. True recovery means preparing patients for long-term success, not just relieving pain.
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**2. Avoid MMI Traps**
Don’t just stop at “maximum medical improvement.” Push patients beyond basic movement—aim for enhanced performance.
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**3. Prep, Don’t Overload**
Most injuries happen when athletes are underprepared and overstimulated. Gradual, smart progressions beat rapid overload.
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**4. Social Media Caution**
Viral workouts can mislead. Remind patients to master foundations before trying advanced movements they see online.
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**5. Expand Your Role**
Don’t just fix; elevate. Think beyond pain relief—be part of your patients’ ongoing fitness and performance plan.
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**6. Rethink Discharge**
Discharging at pain-free may leave athletes underprepared. Integrate fitness and sport-specific training into your care.
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**7. Use Structured Frameworks**
Adopt algorithms and systematic audits—like clinical and fitness audit processes—to ensure no steps are missed.
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**8. Collaborative Care Wins**
Know your role on a multi-provider team and communicate clearly. It prevents “turf wars” and improves patient outcomes.
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**9. Critical Thinking Counts**
Frameworks create consistency, but your clinical reasoning drives better decisions for unique patient needs.
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**10. Keep Learning**
Continual education in both rehab and performance is essential. Stay curious and seek certifications that bridge both worlds.
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**Ready to level up your rehab game?**
Follow FAKTR for more tips, and check our clinical human performance practitioner program for the next step in your career!
✍️ Quiz
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Absolutely! Here’s a 10-question quiz based entirely on the content from the “FAKTR Podcast” episode featuring Dr. Tom Teter, with a detailed answer key and rationales for each answer.
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**Quiz: FAKTR Podcast (Episode: faktr_103)**
**1. What was Dr. Tom Teter’s original background before entering chiropractic school?**
A) Nutrition
B) Strength and conditioning
C) Nursing
D) Physical therapy
**2. According to Dr. Teter, what are the two main factors involved in most non-contact musculoskeletal injuries?**
A) Poor nutrition and lack of sleep
B) Underpreparation and overstimulation
C) Bad equipment and weather conditions
D) Genetics and overuse
**3. What does Dr. Teter believe is missing from traditional definitions of Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI)?**
A) Pain management
B) Local tissue healing
C) Integration of fitness and performance readiness
D) Psychological readiness
**4. What does Dr. Teter recommend as the final step before releasing an athlete back to sport after injury?**
A) Achieving local tissue healing
B) Passing a written test about safety
C) Rebuilding work capacity and ensuring sport-specific readiness
D) Getting an MRI scan
**5. In the podcast, what gap does Dr. Teter identify in current sports med certifications like the CCSP?**
A) Not enough focus on acute injury management
B) Lack of coverage on manipulation techniques
C) Stopping care at motor control without addressing fitness and performance
D) Excessive emphasis on nutrition
**6. What tool did Dr. Teter develop to help guide clinical decision-making in athlete care?**
A) An exercise video series
B) A supplement protocol
C) An operational algorithm and audit processes
D) An online patient portal
**7. Which role does Dr. Teter consider as perhaps most crucial on the integrated sports care team?**
A) Head coach
B) Athletic trainer
C) Chiropractor
D) General manager
**8. How does Dr. Teter suggest healthcare teams can avoid “turf wars” between providers?**
A) Eliminating overlapping providers
B) Having clear frameworks and defined roles within an operational algorithm
C) Assigning only one provider per athlete
D) Frequent meetings without structure
**9. Dr. Teter mentions that many students and young clinicians take technique courses after school mainly because:**
A) They need to improve their communication skills
B) They want to learn billing procedures
C) They were not shown the gap in their knowledge/process during school
D) They want to specialize in pediatrics
**10. What is the main goal of the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner program highlighted at the end of the episode?**
A) To teach only advanced manipulation
B) To bridge the gap between rehabilitation and long-term performance enhancement
C) To replace CCSP entirely
D) To offer nutritional counseling for athletes
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### **Answer Key with Rationales**
1. **B) Strength and conditioning**
*Rationale:* Dr. Teter’s background was in exercise science and he worked in strength and conditioning before chiropractic (see [00:04:30]).
2. **B) Underpreparation and overstimulation**
*Rationale:* He repeatedly emphasizes that people are often underprepared for activities and then overstimulate their bodies, leading to injuries ([00:06:55]-[00:07:35]).
3. **C) Integration of fitness and performance readiness**
*Rationale:* He explains that current MMI often stops at local healing or motor control, but full readiness should include fitness and capacity for sport-specific tasks ([00:11:46]-[00:13:22]).
4. **C) Rebuilding work capacity and ensuring sport-specific readiness**
*Rationale:* Returning an athlete requires restoring integrated strength, movement, and work capacity for their sport, not just treating the initial injury ([00:13:52]).
5. **C) Stopping care at motor control without addressing fitness and performance**
*Rationale:* Dr. Teter describes how much of sports med education gets stuck at motor control and doesn’t fully transition patients to performance ([00:18:30]).
6. **C) An operational algorithm and audit processes**
*Rationale:* He developed a structural framework (an algorithm) for clinical reasoning, with clinical and fitness audit processes ([00:21:21]-[00:25:26]).
7. **B) Athletic trainer**
*Rationale:* Dr. Teter specifically identifies the athletic trainer as the most important person on the integrated sports team, particularly as the triage provider ([00:27:27]).
8. **B) Having clear frameworks and defined roles within an operational algorithm**
*Rationale:* He explains how using structured frameworks and role clarity allows providers to work together smoothly and avoid turf wars ([00:26:36]-[00:30:16]).
9. **C) They were not shown the gap in their knowledge/process during school**
*Rationale:* Many new graduates don’t even know what gaps exist, leading them to seek out various technique courses ([00:17:18]).
10. **B) To bridge the gap between rehabilitation and long-term performance enhancement**
*Rationale:* The certification’s main purpose is helping clinicians move beyond injury care and into optimizing performance ([00:31:48]).
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Let me know if you’d like the quiz in a printable format or need more questions!
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Just recorded a new FAKTR podcast episode with Dr. Tom Teter! We dove into redefining recovery in sports chiro, bridging the rehab-performance gap, and teamwork in patient care. Game-changing insights for clinicians! #FAKTRpodcast
📧 Podcast Thank You Email
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Subject: Thanks for Joining Us on the FAKTR Podcast! 🎙️
Hey Dr. Teter,
Just wanted to send a quick note to say THANK YOU for coming on the FAKTR podcast! The episode is officially live and I couldn’t be more excited for folks to hear our conversation. You brought so much value to the table—your take on bridging the gap between sports rehab and long-term performance is exactly the kind of insight our listeners are hungry for.
If you’re up for it, sharing the episode and engaging with any of our related content on social media really does make a huge difference. It helps more people in our community find the show and join the conversation (and makes me look cool by association, ha!).
Hope you’re as proud of this one as I am. If you ever want to dive in again or share what you’re working on, you’ve always got a spot on our show.
Thanks again, my friend—
Jessica
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Absolutely! Based on the transcript, a strong logical halfway stopping point is right after Dr. Tom Teter thoroughly explains his operational algorithm and its impact on collaborative care within integrated sports teams. This segment presents a clear transition after he breaks down the team dynamics and shares a specific example about passing a patient between providers—giving listeners a comprehensive understanding of his framework before transitioning into further insights.
**Here's where Part 1 should end:**
- **End Part 1 timestamp:** 00:30:16
- **Begin Part 2 timestamp:** 00:30:38
**Complete sentence to end Part 1 after:**
> "So it it really just ties everything together. But I think it all starts with having that operational algorithm and then having those two processes, whether it's clinical audit process or your fitness audit process."
Part 2 would pick up at 00:30:38 as Jessica Riddle wraps up and transitions into the next phase of the conversation and calls to action. This provides listeners a natural pause and ensures each part is balanced with both actionable insight and narrative flow.
📓 Blog Post
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**Title:**
Bridging the Gap: From Injury to Optimization in Sports Chiropractic
**Subheader:**
How Dr. Tom Teter’s Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Model Redefines Recovery and Performance for Athletes
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### Introduction: Beyond the Basics of Sports Rehab
In the world of sports chiropractic and rehabilitation, most clinicians are trained to do one thing: treat pain and help patients return to their previous level of function. But what if our role could be so much more? On a recent episode of the FAKTR Podcast, host Jessica Riddle sat down with Dr. Tom Teter, a chiropractor and strength and conditioning specialist, to explore the untapped potential of guiding patients not just back to baseline, but into a realm of long-term performance and resilience.
Dr. Teter’s experiences—both as a university professor and as a clinician working closely with athletes—revealed jarring gaps in how sports injuries are handled. He realized that standard clinical education and many sports medicine certifications often fall short of preparing providers to truly serve the athletic and active populations they encounter. The solution: a framework that bridges sports medicine with human performance, taking patients far beyond traditional rehab.
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### The Missing Link in Sports Injury Care
Most providers know the drill: an athlete gets injured, receives targeted treatment, progresses to a point of no pain (Maximum Medical Improvement), and is released—only to end up back in the clinic with the same or similar injury months later. According to Dr. Teter, this isn’t a failure of clinical skill, but a limitation set by traditional education. “If we just stop at MMI,” he says, “we’ve skipped half the puzzle, and this person’s going to be grossly underprepared for the demands that caused their injury in the first place.”
Often, preventable injuries occur when athletes are underprepared for the intensity or volume of their chosen activity. This “underprepared and overstimulated” equation is a recipe for non-contact musculoskeletal injuries—a phenomenon exacerbated by social media, where viral “tricks” and advanced exercises skip the fundamental progressions that build true readiness.
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### Redefining Recovery: Dr. Teter’s Framework
Dr. Teter advocates for a sweeping change in how clinicians define and approach recovery. His Clinical Human Performance Practitioner model extends care far beyond acute pain management, incorporating stages that address global movement restoration, strength integration, and performance preparedness. Instead of merely focusing on healing tissues and restoring motor control, his approach requires thinking backwards from the athlete’s end goal and reverse engineering a plan to get there.
This comprehensive plan doesn’t just restore what’s lost—it asks, “How can I make this athlete better than before?” It’s a shift from reactive to proactive care, ensuring athletes leave the clinic not just pain-free, but fully equipped for the forces and skills their sport demands.
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### Closing the Gaps in Traditional Education
Most graduate programs and sports certifications (like the CCSP) successfully teach the clinical basics, like acute management and early motor control. But, Dr. Teter points out, these programs often don’t show students what’s missing—and “if you don’t know what you don’t know,” you can’t fill the gaps. Consequently, most clinicians end up piecing together bits of advanced education without a cohesive framework.
The Clinical Human Performance Practitioner curriculum maps out the entire care and performance continuum—from initial injury and acute care, through advanced rehabilitation, fitness integration, and return-to-play. With clear methods for both painful and non-painful cases, it gives providers a reproducible, stepwise system to guide patients all the way back to competition and beyond.
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### Collaborative Care: Ending the “Turf War”
Working with teams and integrated healthcare providers often turns into a messy “turf war” over who is responsible for patient outcomes. Dr. Teter’s solution is an operational algorithm that clarifies everyone’s roles—from athletic trainers to chiropractors, PTs, strength coaches, and skills coaches. This structure builds respect, transparency, and collaboration, ensuring every provider knows where they add value and when to pass the baton.
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### Conclusion: Toward Athlete Optimization
Dr. Teter’s approach is about redefining what’s possible for both clinicians and athletes. By introducing a model that bridges clinical practice and peak performance, he’s helping practitioners deliver results that last, fostering resilient athletes less susceptible to recurring injuries.
For those ready to move past the status quo—to build a proactive, performance-centered practice—this model offers clarity, direction, and a path to truly optimize every patient’s journey from injury to achievement.
**Interested in learning more?** Visit [FAKTR’s Clinical Human Performance Practitioner certification](https://online.sports-seminars.com) for in-depth training, and start paving the way for better outcomes and stronger collaborations in your practice.
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**Part 1: Bridging the Gap in Sports Chiropractic – From Injury Recovery to Performance Enhancement**
**Subheader:**
Understanding the missing link in sports rehab and how a performance-focused framework can maximize both patient outcomes and practitioner impact.
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### Rethinking the Traditional Sports Healthcare Model
For generations, sports healthcare providers have focused on getting athletes and active patients out of pain and back on their feet. Most standard rehabilitation protocols follow this path: identify the injury, apply acute management strategies, restore basic function, and send the patient on their way once discomfort subsides. Yet, as many practitioners and athletes know, injury recurrence and lingering performance deficits are all too common. What if the standard system leaves out a vital phase—the transition from “not injured” to “truly prepared”?
### Identifying the Gap: Why Injuries Keep Coming Back
Turning a critical eye towards this recurring issue, it’s clear that many injuries occur in individuals who are underprepared for their chosen activity and simultaneously overstimulated by attempting too much, too soon. For example, recreational athletes may set a new training goal—such as running a marathon—but instead of building up gradually, they ramp up mileage or weight without sufficient foundation. This leap, without proper progression, overloads the body’s current capacity, leading to strains and setbacks.
Factors amplifying this gap include the pervasive influence of social media—where influencers showcase advanced workout routines without context or preparation steps—fueling unrealistic expectations for viewers. Many attempt complex exercises or extreme regimens before building requisite strength, stability, and skill, further increasing the risk of injury.
### The Cycle of Care: A Missed Opportunity
Traditionally, healthcare providers enter the scene after injury strikes. They assess, treat, guide the patient to maximum medical improvement (MMI)—that is, the pre-injury state—and then discharge them. This cyclical approach often means providers see the same patients return with the same issues. Why? Because MMI is still only a midpoint; it restores patients to baseline, not true readiness for performance or prevention of future mishaps.
### Expanding the Practitioner’s Role: Beyond MMI
To truly serve athletes and active populations, it’s time to expand the practitioner’s role from merely facilitating recovery to optimizing preparation. This requires a shift in perspective—from ending care at the resolution of symptoms, to developing a plan that supports physical development, movement quality, work capacity, and sport-specific resilience beyond what was lost.
Instead of thinking, “Let’s just get the pain to go away,” a modern approach asks, “How can I help this patient return stronger, more adaptable, and less likely to be injured in the future?” This transforms the provider-patient dynamic into a partnership focused on both rehabilitation and ongoing human performance.
### The Foundation for Performance-Based Care
The evolution begins with a practitioner’s own background and commitment to lifelong learning. Professionals who come from exercise science, strength and conditioning, or personal athletic experience often see firsthand how conventional practice stops short. These insights motivate them to seek additional education, resulting in integrated frameworks that blend acute clinical care with long-term performance enhancement.
The new model doesn’t dispense with traditional care. Instead, it builds upon it—layering in progressive strength development, movement optimization, and work capacity training designed around the patient’s individual goals and the physical demands of their activity, profession, or sport.
### Conclusion: The Road Ahead for Providers and Patients
Healthcare providers committed to bridging the traditional divide must ask: Are we settling for “better,” or aiming for “best”? Modern sports chiropractic and rehab should strive for outcomes where patients don’t just recover, but truly thrive. That means evolving past the singular goal of symptom resolution to fostering lasting, performance-driven results—leaving both patients and practices stronger for it.
In Part 2, we’ll delve deeper into why standard certifications and educational programs may fall short, and how a structured, algorithm-based approach can empower providers to deliver more comprehensive, collaborative care.
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**End of Part 1.**
[Continue to Part 2: “Raising the Bar: Where Traditional Sports Med Education Falls Short (and What to Do About It)”]
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**Title:**
Redefining Recovery: Bridging the Gap Between Sports Rehab and Human Performance
**Subheader:**
How a Comprehensive Framework is Transforming Patient Outcomes and Collaborative Care
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### Introduction: Beyond the Basics of Patient Care
In the world of sports chiropractic and rehabilitation, the journey from injury to full recovery involves much more than simply resolving pain. Success is achieved when clinicians merge cutting-edge treatment with a nuanced understanding of human performance, ensuring that patients not only return to play, but exceed their prior capabilities. Yet, a persistent gap exists between traditional clinical education and the real-world needs of athletes and active individuals—as well as those striving for everyday functional excellence. Addressing this disconnect calls for a new framework: one that encapsulates both rehabilitation and long-term performance enhancement.
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### The Roots of the Problem: Under-Preparation Meets Overstimulation
Many recurring injuries among athletes and fitness enthusiasts stem from a fundamental mismatch. Individuals are often underprepared for the physical demands they face, yet simultaneously expose themselves to excessive load or complexity—fueled, in part, by the influence of social media and “influencer culture.” Exercises or feats shared online are typically advanced variations requiring extensive progression, but viewers attempt them without the foundational strength or conditioning.
This combination—under-preparation and overstimulation—creates the perfect environment for musculoskeletal injuries, especially non-contact ones. Pushing past one’s true capacity, such as running far beyond prior mileage or adding intensity without progression, sets the stage for setbacks that could have been avoided with proper preparation.
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### Defining Maximum Medical Improvement: Is It Enough?
In most clinical settings, the treatment roadmap follows a familiar script. After assessment and diagnosis, a structured plan leads the patient to “maximum medical improvement” (MMI)—a state where pain is resolved and local function restored. However, stopping at MMI often neglects the larger performance picture. Many athletes are released from care once their acute symptoms subside, only to find themselves frequently reinjured upon returning to sport.
True functional recovery requires integrating strength, sport-specific skills, rate of force production, and work capacity into the rehabilitation plan. By redefining MMI to encompass not only tissue healing and motor control but also global preparedness and fitness, practitioners can break the cycle of repeated injuries and non-optimal returns to play.
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### Exposing the Gaps in Sports Medicine Education
Healthcare education provides foundational knowledge, teaching future clinicians to diagnose, treat, and pass licensing exams. Specialized certifications in sports medicine or rehabilitation add skills in acute management and some aspects of performance, but they rarely cover the full spectrum—from injury to optimized performance.
Students and young practitioners often feel compelled to chase after trending techniques or patches for these educational gaps, without a cohesive system to integrate what they learn. Even advanced certifications spend significant time on event-based care and early-phase rehab, while the continuing development needed to restore and enhance athletic capability is left to chance.
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### Building a Comprehensive Framework: Algorithms and Collaborative Care
A transformative solution lies in structured systems that guide both clinical and performance-based care. An operational algorithm can direct patient flow: separating those with pain (requiring clinical rehabilitation) from those seeking performance gains (needing fitness audits). The clinical audit process includes five key steps: patient profiling, needs analysis, comprehensive assessment, staged treatment planning, and rigorous discharge criteria—ensuring every phase, from acute management to functional integration and return to sport, is addressed.
This structured approach is reproducible across practitioners and disciplines, supporting collaboration within integrated care teams. Clear delineation of roles—medical, movement, fitness, skill, and sports science—minimizes turf wars and clarifies ownership of each phase of recovery and performance.
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### Optimizing Outcomes Through Interdisciplinary Teamwork
When clinicians operate within a defined framework, every provider—from the athletic trainer to the coach—knows their specific responsibilities, eliminating gaps in care. This collaborative model allows for seamless handoffs between movement specialists (chiropractors, physical therapists), fitness staff, and skill coaches, all underpinned by continuous monitoring and communication.
By using decision-making algorithms and audit processes, teams ensure that care is structured, comprehensive, and adaptable to the individual needs and goals of each athlete or active patient. Ultimately, this holistic, performance-driven approach leads not just to recovery, but to lasting success and injury resilience.
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### Conclusion: From Recovery to Optimization
Bridging the notorious gap between injury rehab and human performance demands more than just technical expertise—it requires a systematic, team-based strategy that considers the whole continuum from acute injury to return to elite function. By adopting these comprehensive frameworks, practitioners empower their patients—and themselves—to achieve new levels of safety, performance, and fulfillment in health and sport.
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Sure thing! Here are 7 key themes discussed in this episode:
1. Bridging clinical rehab and sports performance
2. Gaps in traditional sports medicine education
3. Underprepared and overstimulated athletes
4. Redefining recovery and maximum medical improvement
5. Collaborative frameworks for integrated care teams
6. Structured algorithms for clinical decision-making
7. Enhancing outcomes beyond injury recovery
🔑 Key Themes
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Sure! Here are 7 key themes discussed in this episode:
1. Gaps in sports chiropractic education
2. Transitioning patients from rehab to performance
3. Underpreparedness and overstimulation in athletes
4. Limitations of traditional sports med certifications
5. Need for integrated, collaborative care teams
6. Practical frameworks for clinical decision making
7. Redefining maximum medical improvement (MMI)
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Absolutely! Here’s an alternative audio voiceover script for the FAKTR Podcast, Episode faktr_103. The tone will stay conversational, professional, and energetic—mirroring the style of your transcript.
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Welcome to the FAKTR Podcast, your go-to place for learning everything they *didn’t* teach you in school about growing your clinical practice, sharpening your patient care skills, and achieving even better outcomes. We’re here to help you tackle the real-world hurdles that come with being a healthcare provider—whether that's delivering stellar care or running a business that works for you, instead of the other way around.
If you’re just out of school or you’re already growing your practice, you’ll find practical insights here. We dig into cutting-edge treatments, smart business strategies, and mindset shifts—all with the ultimate goal of helping you build a fulfilling, sustainable career in healthcare.
I’m your host, Jessica Riddle, and in today’s episode, we’re zeroing in on a major missing link in sports chiropractic and rehab education. With me is Dr. Tom Teter, someone truly dedicated to reshaping the way we think about bridging injury recovery and long-term human performance. Dr. Teter comes equipped with a powerful blend of strength and conditioning knowledge, clinical experience, and a talent for teaching. He’s observed significant disconnects between what’s taught in traditional clinical programs and what active individuals and athletes actually need.
In our conversation, you’ll learn how Dr. Teter developed his Clinical Human Performance Practitioner model. We explore the biggest gaps in current sports medicine certifications—and how his unique, algorithm-driven framework allows providers from different backgrounds to collaborate better and achieve superior outcomes for their patients.
Whether you’re newer to sports rehab or a seasoned pro looking to level up, this discussion is packed with gems you can use right away in the clinic. Let’s jump in.
So, Dr. Teter, let’s take it back. Your path started with a FAKTR course some years ago, and a lunch with Dr. Riddle, right? That’s when you really started noticing all those missing pieces in clinical education and thought, “We can do better.” Tell us how that unfolded.
*[Dr. Tom Teter’s response is woven in: detailing his evolution from exercise science and strength & conditioning into chiropractic, his clinical observations about recurrent injuries, and how his personal experience with chiropractic inspired him to search for answers beyond traditional injury management.]*
You know, it’s fascinating—many providers enter the field because of a personal injury or experience that opened their eyes to what’s possible through quality care. But I want to zoom in on those recurring injuries you saw, Dr. Teter. Where do you think they originate? Is it lack of understanding on the athlete’s part, fitness trends that encourage risky moves, or something else?
*[Dr. Teter outlines the common thread: people are typically “underprepared and overstimulated”—jumping into activities or loads their bodies aren’t ready for, often influenced by social media’s highlight reels of advanced exercises. He explains how this gap in preparation and realistic knowledge sets people up for avoidable injuries.]*
That leads to healthcare providers entering the “scene” once injuries have already happened. Usually, you all examine, diagnose, treat, and get patients feeling “back to baseline.” And yet, so many athletes wind up right back in your office with the *same* injury. What’s the missing step here?
*[Dr. Teter discusses why it’s not enough to restore isolated function or reduce pain—the real goal should be returning people to higher levels of fitness and sport-specific function, which traditional definitions of “maximum medical improvement” tend to overlook.]*
And that’s such a pivotal insight. Clinical education often gives us the foundation and skills to treat injuries—but if we want to help patients truly thrive, especially athletes, there’s a whole next layer needed. Thinking about sports-specific certifications and rehab programs, what are the biggest gaps you’ve noticed?
*[Dr. Teter breaks it down: foundational education covers assessment, diagnosis, and basic management—great, but only the first few steps. Programs like the CCSP are wonderful for acute care and sideline management, but they stop short of performance reintegration and advanced rehab. The Clinical Human Performance Practitioner model picks up where traditional training leaves off, helping clinicians move patients fully through the continuum from injury to optimal performance.]*
Having a clinical framework for decision-making is vital—especially when the “real” outcome isn’t just pain relief, but high-level function. How does your model improve critical thinking for healthcare providers?
*[Dr. Teter describes his operational algorithm: a structured, reproducible approach for both injury and fitness-focused clients, offering pathways and processes that providers can follow at every stage of care, from assessment to return-to-play. This framework also supports true collaboration among a patient’s care team, clarifying who handles which phase and ensuring the athlete isn’t left with critical gaps in their rehab.]*
And for anyone working in team or integrated settings—having clear roles and a shared process cuts down on confusion and “turf wars.” Dr. Teter, can you tell us how this system facilitates better team communication?
*[Dr. Teter walks through the six essential roles on an integrated sports team—management, medical, movement, fitness, skill, and sports science—and explains how his framework improves hand-offs, leverages each provider’s strengths, and ultimately keeps athletes safer and performing at their best.]*
That brings us to the end of part one with Dr. Tom Teter. I hope today’s episode gave you some new ways of thinking about recovery, performance, and your role in guiding patients beyond just “getting better.” Dr. Teter’s comprehensive approach fills in the gaps left by traditional education—offering you structure, clarity, and a strategy for reproducible, performance-focused results.
If you’re eager to apply this powerful framework in your own practice, check out the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner certification—it’s over 114 hours of in-depth, actionable content that bridges rehab and performance. Enrollment details are in the show notes and at online.sports-seminars.com.
If you found today’s episode valuable, please follow, like, and share the FAKTR Podcast—we’re here to help you and your colleagues grow. Until next time, thanks for listening!
And don’t forget to visit faktr-store.com for online courses, upcoming hands-on classes, and everything you need to keep building your skills. Full details and links are in our show notes.
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On the latest FAKTR Podcast, Dr. Tom Teter shares how bridging the gap between sports rehab and performance helps athletes go beyond recovery. Learn about his clinical framework for better results and teamwork! #SportsChiro #FAKTR
Objectives and Take Aways
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Title: Bridging the Gap: Redefining Sports Chiropractic and Rehab for Lasting Performance
Introduction:
In this episode of the FAKTR Podcast, host Jessica Riddle sits down with Dr. Tom Teter to explore the missing link in sports chiropractic and rehab education. Drawing from his extensive background in strength and conditioning, hands-on clinical care, and university teaching, Dr. Teter reveals how a lack of integration between rehabilitation and human performance leads to recurring injuries and limited patient outcomes. He introduces a new framework—the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner model—that extends care from simply recovering after injury to optimizing long-term athletic and functional performance.
Objective:
The primary goal of this episode is to help healthcare providers reimagine their role—not just as pain relievers, but as partners in lifelong performance. Attendees will learn how to bridge the gap between injury recovery and true performance enhancement, utilizing actionable frameworks and critical thinking strategies that can be immediately implemented in practice.
By the end of this session, providers will:
1. Think Differently:
- Recognize that most patients and athletes are often underprepared and overstimulated, leading to injury—especially in the age of social media fitness trends.
- Understand the limitations of traditional clinical education and certifications, which often stop at maximum medical improvement and local tissue repair, missing the broader needs of athletic function and performance goals.
- Embrace a more holistic and integrated vision—encompassing acute care, global movement, strength, rate of force production, and work capacity.
2. Feel Differently:
- Develop a new sense of responsibility and excitement about guiding patients beyond pain relief and into real performance optimization.
- Feel empowered to become a collaborative member of multidisciplinary teams, rather than working in isolation or engaging in unproductive turf wars.
- Gain confidence in using structured, reproducible systems to track and communicate progress—benefiting both patients and interdisciplinary colleagues.
3. Do Differently:
- Implement Dr. Teter’s operational algorithm, which differentiates between painful and non-painful cases and guides providers through clinical and fitness audit processes, ensuring no steps are missed.
- Move beyond isolated, local treatment to include full-spectrum rehabilitation: acute management, kinematics, motor control, functional integration, kinetics, and work capacity.
- Utilize collaborative frameworks to clearly define team roles within integrated sports or rehab settings, improving communication, accountability, and patient outcomes.
- Perform needs analyses and set patient-specific, activity-based goals—reverse engineering care plans from the demands of sport or desired activities rather than generic rehab milestones.
- Establish and apply consistent criteria for discharge or progression, focusing on actual readiness for real-world demands rather than arbitrary endpoints.
Killer Call to Action:
Now is the time to elevate your practice—move past the limitations of traditional rehab and become the practitioner who guides patients from injury to their fullest potential. Start by reevaluating your definition of success: Are you sending patients back into the world ready, or just “better than before?” Embrace the clinical human performance mindset, adopt a structured framework, and seek out the tools to assess, treat, and collaborate at a higher level.
Take action today:
- Evaluate your current discharge criteria—are you preparing patients for real performance?
- Begin mapping out a plan that includes not just tissue repair but global fitness, strength, and sport-specific preparation.
- Explore the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Certification to master these skills and frameworks.
Success isn’t just in fixing pain—it’s in building resilient, high-performing individuals who thrive long after their clinic visits are over. Lead the change, raise the standard, and redefine what your practice can achieve.
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Certainly! Here are some compelling quotes from Dr. Tom Teter and Jessica Riddle’s conversation on the FAKTR Podcast – perfect for sharing on social media or promoting the episode:
1. "People are underprepared for what they're trying to do, and then they're grossly overstimulated. Those are kind of a recipe for disaster." – Dr. Tom Teter
Pair with: An image of someone lifting too much weight or a montage of sporting mishaps, reinforcing the dangers of overreaching without preparation.
2. "I have to come up with a plan that takes you all the way from being on the table all the way back to being on the turf and playing soccer. If we just stop at MMI, we've skipped half the puzzle." – Dr. Tom Teter
Pair with: A visual transition from treatment room to sports field, showing the journey from recovery to performance.
3. "If you're working with athletes, the real problem with being underprepared is if we're letting our people go after motor control and maximum medical improvement—they're not ready to play yet." – Dr. Tom Teter
Pair with: A photo of an athlete hesitating on the field/court, symbolizing the gap between rehab and readiness.
4. "Most of these students have never been shown what the gaps are in their process… they really have no cohesive system to kind of put it all together." – Dr. Tom Teter
Pair with: An image of puzzle pieces or a flowchart with missing links, emphasizing the need for structured frameworks in sports rehab.
5. "We're not trying to replace traditional chiropractic education. We're not even trying to replace or compete with the CCSP… What we're trying to teach is taking those people and show them, here's the after stuff that you need to know to be able to work with high level athletes." – Dr. Tom Teter
Pair with: A Venn diagram or bridge graphic illustrating education, certification, and the added value of the clinical human performance practitioner model.
6. "We have an organizational structure that tells you where to go in every step of the puzzle. And then we have a process for painful situations and non painful situations." – Dr. Tom Teter
Pair with: A split-screen or roadmap dividing 'painful' and 'fitness' journeys, underlining process-driven care.
7. "You can’t be everything to everybody." – Dr. Tom Teter
Pair with: A visual of a provider surrounded by various athlete silhouettes, each demanding attention, highlighting the importance of teamwork and defined roles.
8. "Structure, clarity, and a path to reproducible results in performance-driven care." – Jessica Riddle
Pair with: A clean, step-by-step infographic or a staircase graphic representing the journey from injury to optimization.
9. "The single most important person on this team is the athletic trainer, because they're the triage person who's has first contact with the athlete in most situations." – Dr. Tom Teter
Pair with: An image spotlighting an athletic trainer in action, emphasizing their critical role.
10. "It all starts with having that operational algorithm—and then having those two processes, whether it’s clinical audit process or your fitness audit process." – Dr. Tom Teter
Pair with: A flowchart or schematic diagram, visually breaking down the decision-making process.
These quotes capture the essential ideas and memorable messages from the episode—easily shareable to inspire clinicians at every stage of their practice!
Pain Points and Challenges
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Title: Bridging the Gap in Sports Chiropractic and Rehab: Advancing Clinical Human Performance
Introduction:
The world of sports chiropractic and rehabilitation is rapidly evolving, presenting both fresh opportunities and distinct challenges for healthcare providers. In this episode of the FAKTR Podcast, host Jessica Riddle sits down with Dr. Tom Teter, a leader in sports performance and chiropractic care, to discuss the critical “missing link” in current sports chiropractic and rehab education. Their conversation uncovers common pain points faced by clinicians working with athletes and outlines practical solutions and strategic frameworks to deliver comprehensive, performance-driven care. Whether you’re a new graduate or a seasoned provider, this guide distills their insights to help you bridge the gap between injury recovery and long-term athletic performance.
1. Identifying Gaps in Traditional Clinical Education and Practice
**Pain Points:**
- Traditional clinical education often focuses primarily on injury treatment, not on optimizing human performance or preventing reinjury.
- Sports medicine certifications tend to stop at motor control or maximum medical improvement (MMI), rather than addressing full return-to-play and performance enhancement.
- Many clinicians lack a cohesive, repeatable system for progressing athletes beyond basic recovery.
- New graduates may not be aware of gaps in their approach, leading to incomplete rehab and frequent reinjury among active patients.
**Solutions and Strategies:**
- Recognize that true recovery extends beyond local tissue repair—athletes need global strength, integrated movement patterns, and restored work capacity suited to their sport.
- Redefine “maximum medical improvement” to include fitness and readiness for sport-specific tasks, not just absence of symptoms.
- Develop a comprehensive care pathway that starts with acute injury management and flows through kinematics, motor control, functional integration, kinetics, and finally capacity building.
- Reverse-engineer treatment: begin with the end goal (return to competition) and plan backward to address every necessary milestone.
2. Patient Preparation, Overstimulation, and Social Media Culture
**Pain Points:**
- Many athletes and fitness enthusiasts are “underprepared and overstimulated”—they attempt activities or intensities beyond their current capabilities, leading to avoidable injuries.
- Social media often showcases advanced exercises without context, prompting individuals to attempt movements they're not ready for.
- There is widespread misinformation about proper progression and performance preparation.
**Solutions and Strategies:**
- Educate patients and athletes about the necessity of progressive preparation and the dangers of overtraining.
- Providers should act as myth-busters, helping dispel performance misconceptions encountered online.
- Use a systematic approach to assess a patient’s true readiness for specific activities, then design stepwise progressions.
- Remind patients that visible feats on social media are likely the product of rigorous, incremental training steps.
3. Lack of an Operational Framework and Interprofessional Coordination
**Pain Points:**
- Many clinics lack a standardized, algorithm-driven approach to care, resulting in inconsistencies, overlooked steps, and frustration within interdisciplinary teams.
- “Turf wars” can arise between chiropractors, physical therapists, athletic trainers, and other professionals when roles and responsibilities are unclear.
- Difficulty ensuring all providers are working from the same playbook, potentially leading to gaps in communication and care.
**Solutions and Strategies:**
- Adopt a structured operational algorithm for both painful (rehabilitation) and non-painful (performance/fitness) scenarios.
- For pain: Utilize a five-step clinical audit process (patient profile, needs analysis, exam, treatment plan, activity restoration).
- For performance: Employ a fitness audit process (client profile, needs analysis, comprehensive assessment, training plan, periodic re-evaluation).
- Clearly define roles within the healthcare team:
- Management (athletic directors, business leaders)
- Medical (athletic trainers, physicians)
- Movement (chiropractors, physical therapists)
- Fitness (strength and conditioning staff)
- Skill (coaches), and Sports Science (load management and monitoring).
- Encourage collaboration using these frameworks so every provider understands their area of ownership, reducing overlap and confusion.
4. Building Critical Thinking and Closing “What’s Next?” Gaps
**Pain Points:**
- Purely symptom-driven care can leave patients vulnerable to re-injury.
- Clinicians may lack a system for critical decision-making that encompasses the spectrum from pain to peak performance.
- Many practitioners do not know how to build progressive plans that extend from rehab into full-scale human performance.
**Solutions and Strategies:**
- Integrate critical thinking tools: Use systematic audit processes to check each stage of recovery and readiness.
- Establish clear discharge or restoration criteria, ensuring each patient is truly ready to progress to the next phase or return to sport.
- Train clinicians to think in terms of both clinical outcomes and functional performance, considering the whole athlete.
- Pursue advanced training and certifications that bridge classic rehab and performance (such as the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner model), emphasizing reproducibility and interprofessional communication.
Conclusion:
Navigating the modern challenges of sports chiropractic and performance-based care requires more than just foundational clinical skills. By identifying and bridging the educational and practical gaps outlined in this episode, providers can deliver more holistic, effective care—transforming patients from "barely recovered" to "better than before." Adopting structured frameworks, prioritizing progressive training, and fostering team collaboration positions you to stand out as a practitioner dedicated not just to recovery, but to lifelong performance and injury prevention. Implement these strategies, and you’ll be better equipped to help your patients not only heal, but thrive.
📖 Host Read Intro
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Hey there! On this episode of the FAKTR podcast, we’re digging into what most sports rehab pros are missing—bridging that tricky gap between injury recovery and true performance. Dr. Tom Teter joins us to talk about game-changing strategies that can help you take your athletes further than ever before. Let’s dive right in!
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**Email 1**
**Subject:** The Missing Link in Sports Rehab: Want Better Results?
**Pre-header:** Take your practice beyond injury recovery—here's how.
**Email:**
Hey [Name],
Ever feel like your patients keep coming back with the same injuries? You’re not alone. Most sports rehab programs get people to “pain-free”—then set them loose, only for them to end up right back where they started.
That’s why we created the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner certification—a practical framework that bridges the gap between rehab and real-world performance. You’ll learn how to build a reproducible system that gets patients better, keeps them better, and helps you stand out from the crowd.
Ready to see the difference a real framework makes?
**CTA:** [Check out the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner certification now](https://online.sports-seminars.com/certifications)
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**Email 2**
**Subject:** Still sending patients out underprepared?
**Pre-header:** Here’s how to fix what traditional sports education leaves out.
**Email:**
Hey [Name],
Quick follow-up—most traditional sports med certifications stop at “maximum medical improvement,” but that misses half the puzzle. We’re here to help you take your patients from the table all the way to the turf (or wherever their goals take them) with a clear, step-by-step system.
I’m talking about assessing, planning, and collaborating with other providers—no more guesswork, no more turf wars.
**CTA:** [Dive into the full Clinical Human Performance Practitioner program here](https://online.sports-seminars.com/certifications)
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**Email 3**
**Subject:** Want structure, clarity, and better outcomes—for good?
**Pre-header:** This is the upgrade your practice’s been looking for.
**Email:**
Hey [Name],
Last nudge from me—our comprehensive certification gives you the tools, structure, and mindset shifts top performers use. Over 100+ hours of actionable content, designed to fit your busy schedule, and ready to help you work smarter (not harder) no matter where you’re at in your career.
Why settle for baseline when you can guide your athletes all the way to optimization?
**CTA:** [Get instant access and join providers leveling up with us](https://online.sports-seminars.com/certifications)
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✅ Ready to break the cycle of recurring sports injuries?
✅ Host Jessica Riddle sits down with Dr. Tom Teter to uncover the “missing link” between traditional sports rehab and real, lasting performance.
✅ Context: Whether you’re fresh out of school or a seasoned provider, there’s a massive gap in how we guide athletes from injury to true optimization—until now.
✅ Takeaway: Discover Dr. Teter’s game-changing framework to get better outcomes, bridge the rehab-to-performance gap, and redefine what it means to be a top clinical performer. Listen to the latest FAKTR Podcast episode and level up your approach! 🎧
#SportsChiropractic #FAKTRPodcast #RehabToPerformance #ClinicalEducation #PodcastTips
FAKTR Podcast Intro
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If you work with athletes or active individuals, you know that bridging the gap between rehab and true performance is one of the biggest challenges—and opportunities—in sports chiropractic and rehab. In today’s episode, we’ll take a closer look at the *missing link* in sports chiropractic and rehab education, exploring why so many athletes end up injured again and what practitioners can do to truly elevate their clinical impact.
We’ll dive into:
- The critical mistakes most providers make when moving athletes from injury recovery to performance.
- How social media and misinformation compound injury rates—and what you can do to stand apart as a trusted resource.
- A simple yet powerful algorithm and framework you can start using in your practice to create collaborative results across integrated care teams.
Our guest today is Dr. Tom Teter, a seasoned clinician and educator who blends his background in strength and conditioning with years of experience working in both university athletic departments and private practice. Dr. Teter’s innovative approach—the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner model—is all about taking athletes beyond pain relief and ensuring long-term, performance-driven results.
If you’re ready for actionable insights and a blueprint you can use with your patients right away, you’re in the right place. Let’s get started.
Key Themes in Part 2
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In Part 1 of this episode, you’ll discover:
- The biggest gaps in sports chiropractic and rehab education—and how they impact athlete outcomes
- Why traditional definitions of “maximum medical improvement” may set patients up for reinjury
- Dr. Tom Teter’s framework for bridging the divide between rehab and long-term performance
- How collaboration, clear roles, and a step-by-step clinical process help healthcare teams deliver better, more consistent results
Tune in to learn actionable strategies you can implement to take your practice (and your patients) beyond basic recovery!
Create an E-Book with Key Take-Aways
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Absolutely—I can help you transform your one-hour webinar for healthcare providers into a polished, insightful ebook. Here’s a detailed prompt to extract, organize, and structure the content using the provided transcript. This framework guides you (or your team) through each necessary step.
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**Step-by-Step Prompt for Crafting an Engaging Ebook from Your Webinar Transcript**
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### 1. Extract and Organize Core Content
- **Carefully review the full transcript** to understand the flow, speaker insights, and main issues discussed.
- **Identify and highlight:**
- The main themes and topics addressed (look for repeated concepts or sections where the speaker(s) emphasize a point).
- Key quotes, data points, or examples provided by the speakers.
- Explicit or implicit action steps and recommendations.
- Audience Q&A portions, polls, or anecdotes that add context or real-world application.
- Any major pain points or challenges addressed during the training.
- **As you go through each section**, summarize the conversation and note down timestamps for reference if needed (optional, recommended if you plan further revision).
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### 2. Ebook Content Structure
#### **Title Page**
- Generate 5 compelling title options, each with a subtitle reflecting the webinar’s specific focus, solutions, or themes (e.g., bridging education gaps, redefining sports rehab).
- Example:
1. "From Rehab to Performance: Bridging the Gap in Sports Chiropractic"
2. "Beyond Recovery: Elevating Clinical Outcomes in Active Patient Care"
3. "Redefining Rehab: A New Blueprint for Sports Medicine Success"
4. "The Human Performance Model: Taking Patients Further in Healthcare"
5. "Breaking Barriers: Transforming Clinical Practice with Actionable Strategies"
- Include the author’s name(s), date, and affiliation (e.g., FAKTR Podcast).
#### **Table of Contents**
- Structure as follows:
- Introduction
- Key Themes
- Insights
- Take-Away Messages
- Action Items
- Conclusion
#### **Introduction**
- Write a brief opening summarizing:
- Why this topic is important to healthcare providers.
- What gaps in knowledge or practice this resource addresses.
- What readers can expect to learn (summarize the major value propositions of the webinar in 3-4 sentences).
#### **Key Themes**
- List 3–5 central themes from the training. For example:
- **Bridging Gaps in Clinical and Performance Education:** How traditional education often ends before athletes are truly “ready.”
- **Critical Need for Structured Algorithms in Practice:** Implementing reproducible, stepwise frameworks for patient care.
- **Collaboration Across Disciplines:** Defining roles and improving outcomes via integrated care teams.
- **Overcoming Patient Injury Cycles:** Educating on preparation, recovery, and continued performance enhancement.
#### **Insights**
- Detail 2–3 critical insights, complete with powerful speaker quotes or examples. Examples:
- "Most non-contact injuries stem from under-preparation and over-stimulation—clinicians must recognize these to prevent recurrence."
- "Traditional MMI (maximum medical improvement) is not the same as sport readiness—half the puzzle is often missed."
- Explain why these insights matter for everyday healthcare providers.
#### **Take-Away Messages**
- List 5–7 actionable tips, such as:
- Reframe “discharge” to include performance goals for active patients.
- Implement structured audit processes (as described in the algorithm).
- Proactively address athletic “over-stimulation” in consultations.
#### **Action Items**
- Provide a checklist or set of “next steps” for healthcare providers, e.g.:
- Review and re-define your own clinic’s ‘maximum improvement’ criteria.
- Convene a team meeting to clarify provider roles in patient handoffs.
- Integrate a patient goal-setting audit at intake.
#### **Conclusion**
- Restate why addressing these themes transforms patient care.
- Encourage readers to take action, experiment with new frameworks, and seek more in-depth learning (e.g., via the certification programs mentioned).
- Add a call to action (e.g., visit the webinar resource page, sign up for updates, join further training).
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### 3. Formatting & Professional Tone
- Use clear section headings and sub-headings for easy navigation.
- Format bullet points and lists for clarity.
- Present quotes or data in italics or distinguish with quotation formatting for emphasis.
- Maintain a professional yet conversational tone—consider your audience as educated, motivated healthcare providers.
- Optional: At the end or within appropriate sections, add speaker bios or call out boxes with “Pro Tips” or “Real World Examples.”
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### 4. Optional Enhancements
- **Speaker Bios:** Add brief introductions for each key speaker, focusing on professional background and relevance to the topic.
- **Visual Elements:** Note where infographics, flowcharts (e.g., the clinical audit algorithm), or checklists could be added to improve comprehension.
- **Audience Participation:** Summarize Q&A exchanges or poll results to ground recommendations in practical concerns.
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**Note to Use the Transcript:**
Always cite examples, quotes, or key points directly from the transcript for authenticity. If anything needs fact-checking or expansion, mark it for review.
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**Ready to Execute?**
Just follow each section above—from extracting content in the transcript to organizing and formatting it as described. The end result will be a sharply organized, actionable, and professionally tailored ebook that extends the webinar’s value and impact.
Let me know if you’d like sample text or outlines created for your specific webinar content!
🖍️ Step-by-Step Guide
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Too many clinicians stop at “pain-free”…
They forget the bigger picture.
Recovery isn’t the finish line—performance is.
Want to serve your athletic and active patients *beyond* rehab? Here’s how to close the gap:
1. Redefine “maximum medical improvement”
↳ Don’t settle for “can walk without pain”
↳ Aim for “can outperform their last season”
2. Think globally, not just locally
↳ Address more than the injured ankle
↳ Consider sport-specific demands and capacity
3. Build a system, not just a treatment plan
↳ Use operational algorithms for decision-making
↳ Don’t improvise each case—follow a proven process
4. Prepare, don’t just repair
↳ Integrate progressive strength and conditioning
↳ Make fitness part of your discharge criteria
5. Audit habits—both clinical and fitness
↳ Profile your patient’s sport, needs, and goals
↳ Reverse-engineer their journey from rehab table to playing field
6. Promote real interprofessional collaboration
↳ Know your role among ATs, PTs, coaches & docs
↳ Share the workflow and trust your team
7. Teach critical thinking, not recipe-following
↳ Train with frameworks that guide—not replace—clinical judgment
↳ Check your steps. Stay adaptable.
8. Chase progress, not status quo
↳ Don’t be satisfied with “back to normal”
↳ Set higher benchmarks for every athlete’s return
9. Stay evidence-informed, not just trendy
↳ Cut through the noise of social media fads
↳ Educate about smart progressions, not just flashy moves
10. Follow up beyond discharge
↳ Become part of your patient’s ongoing plan
↳ Focus on long-term performance—not just short-term pain relief
The most impactful providers?
They bridge rehab and human performance—every step of the way.
Ready to stop doing “just enough” and really level up your practice?
♻️ Share this if you’re committed to taking your athletes from injury to optimization!
Anything you’d add to the checklist?
E-Book Generator Simplified
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Certainly! Here is a structured and engaging ebook draft based on your provided webinar transcript for the FAKTR Podcast, episode "faktr_103." The content is tailored for healthcare providers and follows your requested components closely.
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# Title Page
### Bridging the Gap: Advancing Sports Chiropractic and Rehab for Enhanced Clinical Performance
**Subtitle:** Beyond Injury—Elevating Patients from Recovery to Long-Term Performance
**Author:** [Insert name]
**Date:** [Insert webinar date]
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# Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Key Themes
- The Missing Link in Sports Chiropractic & Rehab
- Redefining Injury Recovery and MMI
- The Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Model
- Collaboration Across Integrated Care Teams
3. Insights
4. Takeaways
5. Action Items
6. Conclusion
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# Introduction
In today's fast-evolving world of sports chiropractic and rehabilitation, providing true value to athletes and active individuals goes beyond standard injury recovery. This ebook distills the insights from a powerful webinar featuring Dr. Tom Teter, a clinician-educator who merges strength and conditioning expertise with hands-on clinical experience to transform traditional approaches in sports medicine.
The webinar’s primary goal is to spotlight the existing gaps between conventional clinical education and what’s truly needed to serve athletes and fitness-minded patients. It introduces a strategic, algorithm-based framework that advances not only injury rehab but also performance—helping providers achieve reproducible results while working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
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# Key Themes
## 1. The Missing Link in Sports Chiropractic & Rehab
- Traditional education often stops at pain relief and isolated injury management.
- There remains a disconnect between what schools teach, popular post-graduate certificates provide, and what high-performing patients actually need.
- Dr. Teter recognizes the challenge of balancing medical, rehabilitative, and performance aspects for optimal patient outcomes.
## 2. Redefining Injury Recovery and MMI (Maximum Medical Improvement)
- Common practice releases patients once pain subsides and basic motor function returns, known as reaching MMI.
- True readiness goes beyond MMI—athletes need progressive strengthening, integrated movement, and restored work capacity.
- An insufficient discharge plan frequently leads to re-injury.
## 3. The Clinical Human Performance Practitioner Model
- Dr. Teter developed an actionable, stepwise framework to bridge clinical care and human performance.
- It involves two core audit processes: one for pain and rehab cases, another for non-pain, performance-driven clients.
- The framework provides clinicians with repeatable, collaborative, and effective procedures for patient management.
## 4. Collaboration Across Integrated Care Teams
- Clear roles and standardized algorithms help prevent "turf wars" and enhance multidisciplinary coordination.
- Each provider—from athletic trainers to strength coaches and physicians—has a defined part in the patient journey.
- The operational structure ensures nothing is missed and leverages each specialist’s strengths for the benefit of the patient.
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# Insights
- "If we're letting people go from care at MMI, they've skipped half the puzzle, and this person's going to be grossly underprepared for the task and the forces that are going to be going through those tissues, and that's why they end up injured again." – Dr. Tom Teter
- Most musculoskeletal, non-contact injuries stem from patients being underprepared for challenges and overstimulated by excessive or improper training loads.
- Social media influences often show advanced exercises that create unrealistic benchmarks, leading to increased injuries among those who mimic them without adequate progression.
- A robust clinical framework, such as Dr. Teter’s algorithm-based approach, helps with critical thinking, reproducibility, and communication across healthcare teams.
- Integration between acute management, kinematics, motor control, functional integration, progressive kinetics, and work capacity is vital for lasting recovery and performance optimization.
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# Takeaways
- Don’t release patients at pain-free status alone; ensure global strength and movement integration are restored.
- Use structured clinical and fitness audit processes to identify patient needs and progression stages.
- Address both local and global aspects of injury—think beyond the isolated site.
- Prioritize defined roles and clear communication among integrated care team members.
- Patient education is essential: dispel myths seen on social media and set realistic, step-by-step expectations.
- Continually reverse-engineer rehabilitation with the final performance goal in mind.
- Leverage reproducible frameworks and checklists to standardize care and facilitate handoffs among providers.
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# Action Items
- Implement clinical and fitness audit processes in your patient evaluation and planning.
- Develop profiles for all new patients: Who are they? What are their ultimate goals?
- Perform needs analysis for both injury management and athletic aspirations.
- Redefine MMI in your practice to include functional fitness and sport-specific readiness.
- Establish regular interdisciplinary meetings to define and clarify team roles.
- Educate patients about proper progression and the dangers of imitating advanced techniques without preparatory steps.
- Adopt and adapt Dr. Teter’s algorithm for internal workflows, ensuring all care stages are covered.
- Use standardized discharge criteria not just for pain reduction but for reliable return-to-play and performance.
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# Conclusion
The future of sports rehabilitation and chiropractic lies in bridging the divide between injury recovery and long-term performance. As Dr. Tom Teter demonstrated, a structured approach—anchored in collaborative frameworks, systematic audits, and extended care—yields better outcomes and fewer recurrences.
By reshaping our definitions of recovery, implementing reproducible systems, and enhancing team integration, healthcare providers will not only guide patients back to their previous level but empower them to surpass it. Transform your clinical approach today, and take the next step towards becoming a true human performance practitioner.
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*For further engagement, continued learning, and resources, refer to the links in the appendix or visit the FAKTR website and certification programs.*
Look back with key points and time stamps
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It looks like you requested impactful lessons and clips from Dr. Silverman, but according to the transcript, the featured guest in this episode is Dr. Tom Teter. I’ll pull from his insights, as that’s what’s provided.
Here are five compelling takeaways from Dr. Teter’s interview, complete with approximate timestamps for easy clip selection:
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**1. The Root Cause of Injury: Underpreparedness and Overstimulation**
*Time stamp: ~00:06:55 – 00:08:42*
> "I generally think people are underprepared for what they're trying to do, and then they're grossly overstimulated. And those are kind of a recipe for disaster... In the majority of non contact musculoskeletal injuries that I would see, it was people that set a goal to do x, started training for x, but their preparation was here. And all of a sudden, they're doing way too much load, and they start to accumulate a lot of stress and they become injured in some way... The influencers put their hardest, most advanced versions of exercise on because it’s what gets clicks... There were probably 10 steps that a person would have to take to be able to earn the right to do that exercise..."
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**2. Rethinking Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI) and the Recovery Process**
*Time stamp: ~00:11:46 – 00:13:52*
> "I think we need to change that definition of MMI to include now fitness because the real problem with being under prepared is if we're letting our people go after motor control and maximum medical improvement...they’re not ready to play soccer yet. They've still got to accumulate strength globally, and integrated patterns through those tissues... If we just stop at MMI, we've skipped half the puzzle, and this person's gonna be grossly underprepared for the task and the forces that are gonna be going through those tissues, and that’s why they end up injured again."
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**3. The Gap in Sports Medicine Education & Certifications**
*Time stamp: ~00:15:54 – 00:19:38*
> "If we're talking about chiropractic education in general, when you're in school, they teach you how to be a health care provider, how to examine, diagnose, and treat musculoskeletal injuries...But I think part of the problem is most of these students have never been shown what the gaps are in their process...From my experience and knowledge...the CCSP is fantastic for teaching sideline work...but then you’re left to take some of those motor control rehab courses...But that's where it stops. We're talking about a spectrum of care...and so we're still seeing like, 50% of the puzzle being left out of education...what's next or what's after. What's after the CCSP? This is what we're trying to teach you."
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**4. Creating a Structured Clinical Framework for Better Critical Thinking**
*Time stamp: ~00:20:27 – 00:25:49*
> "One of the things I have found in the time with working in athletics is that I think we tend to miss organized framework in an operating system...we have a general operating algorithm, which is the structural framework for how we go about doing our business. And then we now have a painful audit process with our clinical audit process and a fitness audit process. And that’s how we essentially create a structural framework for critical thinking. We're not trying to take away the clinician’s ability to think...We're just trying to give it structure so that you're not missing any steps in the process that is reproducible across multiple practitioners."
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**5. The Power of Collaboration: Roles on the Integrated Sports Medicine Team**
*Time stamp: ~00:25:49 – 00:30:38*
> "It’s the one thing that has saved me time and time again when working with integrated sporting environments. And I can just give you an example...When you have a department or a sports team, there's six parts. There's six people that you need...having this spectrum where everyone knows their role was immensely helpful...But I think it all starts with having that operational algorithm and then having those two processes, whether it’s clinical audit process or your fitness audit process."
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These five clips showcase the most valuable and thought-provoking moments from Dr. Teter in this episode. Each one offers a practical insight you could highlight when looking back at the most impactful lessons from the show.
Post-Webinar Wrap-Up (After Show Shorty Episode)
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**FAKTR Podcast: Post-Webinar Wrap Up – Applying Dr. Teter’s Clinical Human Performance Insights**
**Jessica Riddle:**
Welcome back, everyone! It’s Jessica here with a special follow-up wrap up to our deep-dive episode with Dr. Tom Teter. Whether you joined us live for the webinar or you’re catching up now, I want to take a few minutes to break down the most actionable strategies we discussed and share some extra insights on the real-world impact these changes can have in your practice—especially from my perspective as someone who isn’t a clinician, but works alongside so many of you every day.
So, let’s unpack what Dr. Teter brought to the table, and I’ll highlight a few areas I think every healthcare provider, sports chiropractor, physical therapist, or athletic trainer should consider implementing ASAP.
**Key Point #1: Redefining Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI)**
One of the standout messages from Dr. Teter’s conversation was the need to rethink what we consider “recovered.” Traditionally, maximum medical improvement meant a patient got out of pain, regained local function, and was sent on their way. But how often have we seen those same patients come back—maybe not right away, but sometimes weeks or months later—with the same or a related injury?
**Action Step:**
Don’t stop at pain-free. Reassess your “discharge” process—are you considering global movement, integrated strength, and the specific skills or capacity needed for your patient’s goals? For athletes, this could mean return-to-sport testing; for active adults, it might involve functional movement screens or work capacity assessments. Start engaging patients in conversations about moving from injury recovery to building greater resilience.
**Key Point #2: Bridging Gaps with a Structured Framework**
Dr. Teter outlined his operational algorithm and clinical audit process—essentially, a step-by-step roadmap for decision making:
1. **Patient Profile:** Who are they and what do they want to do?
2. **Needs Analysis:** What does their sport or activity actually require?
3. **Assessment:** Looking not just at the site of injury, but at global function.
4. **Plan:** Six stages of rehab and performance, from acute management all the way through to rebuilding capacity.
5. **Discharge Criteria:** Clear, objective measures that indicate real readiness.
**Action Step:**
Adopt or adapt a clinical audit process in your own practice. This structured approach isn’t just about protocol—it’s about ensuring you’re not missing critical pieces, and that hand-offs between team members—whether you’re collaborating with trainers, PTs, or MDs—are seamless and clear.
**Key Point #3: Collaborative Care and Team Roles**
Dr. Teter was emphatic about the importance of defined roles when working in multidisciplinary teams. From medical to movement to fitness and skill, and with load monitoring as the glue holding it all together, everyone needs to know where their responsibilities begin and end.
**Action Step:**
If you’re part of a team—or even just refer out—take time to clarify roles and expectations. Use a shared algorithm or care plan so everyone is speaking the same language. This prevents overlap, gaps, and turf wars, and it lets the patient benefit from cohesive, coordinated care.
**Additional Insights from Jessica:**
Something that really stands out to me, especially as someone who’s not treating patients directly, is just how much efficiency and patient satisfaction can be improved when you have systems in place for critical thinking and collaboration. Did you know that according to a recent study, nearly **40% of patient injuries in sport rehab are recurrences**? That’s not just a statistic; it’s a call to action. By extending our scope past pain resolution, healthcare providers can not only short-circuit this cycle but also build lifelong loyalty and word-of-mouth referrals—because you helped someone surpass what they thought possible, not just patch them up until next time.
And on the business side: streamlined processes and team care approaches reduce burnout and overhead, because cases flow through the right hands at the right time. This means you work smarter, not harder—something I know every provider craves.
**Tactical Strategies to Implement Now:**
1. **Audit Your Discharge Process:** Are your patients truly “ready,” or just “not hurting”?
2. **Introduce Needs Analysis:** Ask every athlete or active client what their next-level goal is. Reverse engineer a plan—including integration of global fitness, motor control, and capacity building.
3. **Create or Join an Interdisciplinary Care Map:** Share your process and ask your referral partners how they handle transitions. The clearer the map, the better the results—for everyone.
4. **Continual Education:** Consider advanced certifications like the Clinical Human Performance Practitioner (CHPP) certification Dr. Teter mentioned. Ongoing learning pays dividends for your patients and your practice.
Before I wrap, just remember—changing your process doesn’t have to happen all at once. Pick *one* thing to upgrade—maybe it’s starting with needs analysis or implementing new discharge criteria—and build from there.
**Final Thoughts:**
What Dr. Teter shared is more than a clinical update—it’s a mindset shift that, if widely adopted, can elevate the standard of sports and rehab care.
If you missed the chance to sign up for the full Clinical Human Performance Practitioner certification, check out our website or the show notes for more details and resources.
And as always, if this episode got you thinking—or if you have ideas, case stories, or questions—reach out, share with a friend, and help us keep this conversation growing.
Thanks for being part of the FAKTR community. I’ll see you next time!
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