Dr. Danny Shapiro
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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I think every single human being should start dancing. I honestly think so. There's so much shoulders involved, necks involved, feet, knees. I think everybody should dance. It keeps your body so fluid.
Thank you so much, Dr. Tina. I'm really excited to be here with you. I know we're going to dive into a lot of things, a lot of really interesting topics, a lot of things that people need to hear and understand and verifying a lot of just misconceptions in the medical field. So I'm really excited to dive in and very thankful to be here with you.
To start off, I mean, what really piqued my curiosity about the human body and all the things that it's truly capable of, I used to be a professional ballroom dancer for 16 years. I was a United States ballroom champion. I was a world competitor. I was a United States representative across the globe since the age of 10.
And the human body, moving it for hours on end, there's no off season for dancing. So you're in it. And the body is incredibly fascinating. It can do things that people couldn't even imagine. And it's really, really extraordinary. And we don't even fully understand it yet.
And so that really piqued my interest in physical medicine, what really just kind of catapulted me into the physical therapy realm, essentially. And as I got deeper and deeper into this field, I realized there's a lot of misconceptions, especially when it comes to imaging.
And people who are getting MRI results and x-ray results saying that they have arthritis, they need hip replacements or joint replacements so that they have labral tears, that they have to get laminectomies and all these different kinds of things, which is crazy because those people who are told these things, who have limitations, who have pain, can then go on without the surgery to get rid of pain entirely.
And then, okay, well, hey, you may have arthritis, but what if the arthritis is not actually causing you the problem? Right.
And getting people's brains to flip and people who thought that that's it, they have to cut their original body piece of it out to replace it with other material because that's what their doctor says, even though that's not really the case because they don't know any other option. Like that to me, just it blows my mind every time I have this conversation with somebody.
I mean, I agree. I absolutely, absolutely agree. And actually, you mentioned middle age. You can actually start MRIing people after the age of about 26, 27, 28 years old.
And for most of those people, you will find some version of arthritis, some version of a disc herniation, some version of a meniscus tear, especially for active individuals or people who are active in their early life and continue to be active. These are not weird things. If you MRI my body right now, I am sure Because I've had it this pretty much eight years ago.
But I'm sure that you'll find some things that I don't want to know about because they don't really matter because I don't have pain because I'm great. I'm awesome. But the point is that that's absolutely right. And I think that insurance companies actually have a lot to do with this because...
If you can identify a problem through imaging and then your doctor says, oh, we got to do something about this. I wonder, oh, yeah, insurance pays for this. Okay, cool. Let's recommend this procedure. Let's recommend this injection. Let's recommend X, Y, and Z. And I think that
Health insurance companies, while great for things like, you know, if you have a heart attack, like emergency services, it can be very helpful. But when it comes to physical medicine and physical rehab, I think it really muddies the waters in terms of quality of care and attention to detail and the ability for a provider to really provide.
proper guidance and proper advice, especially when it comes to imaging and especially that something like an MRI, you can have one MRI and 10 doctors look at an MRI and give you 10 different reports.
Absolutely. That is crazy. For the MRI to be the golden standard of imaging and yet have so many different variations based on that imaging, based on who's looking at it, who has more experience looking at it, That to me is crazy.
It's like you got to double check everything, triple check everything, verify everything and make sure that you really explore every avenue possible to make sure that like if someone's pushing surgery on you, do you really need surgery or can you bypass that option?
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Because that is usually the thing that does it. I have a guy write like literally brand new patient came into my office three days ago and he showed me his MRI and I was looking at it and he goes, okay, it's like, he didn't give me any information yet. I looked at him like, She looks like a great MRI. Like, okay, we got some joint swelling.
Okay, there's a little labral tear. There's mild arthritis. Okay, but this MRI looks amazing. What did your doctor say? He goes, yeah, my doctor recommended I get ready for a hip replacement. I'm like, what? Okay, listen, I didn't do the evaluation. Let me do the evaluation, and I'll tell you my thoughts. So I do the evaluation 30 minutes in.
All the things that cause him pain, we got 30 minutes into the appointment, all of them are gone. All of them are gone. And I'm like, oh my God, what hip replacement are we even talking about? From the paper? Is your doctor crazy? He wants to ruin your life. That's what's going to happen. If you get the surgery, it will ruin your life.
So like you said, chiropractic and PT, we actually do the same thing in terms of getting people moving and loading tissue and rehabbing someone, right? We may have different methods, but the goal ultimately is the same of getting people moving, getting people to reacclimate into activity in their life. And again, no shade at doctors, and this is not all doctors.
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