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Dr. Peter Attia

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11186 total appearances

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The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

Which is kind of remarkable because anybody who's had it, you know, I had it once back in med school, exactly 25 years ago. Did you get it treated or was it just resolved? No, I mean, I just went to PT and rolled on golf balls and did the usual thing, but it took months to get better. It's such a big deal.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

Which is kind of remarkable because anybody who's had it, you know, I had it once back in med school, exactly 25 years ago. Did you get it treated or was it just resolved? No, I mean, I just went to PT and rolled on golf balls and did the usual thing, but it took months to get better. It's such a big deal.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

So you're saying of the patients that are coming to see you with plantar fasciitis, how many of these patients, how long have they been hurting, first of all?

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

So you're saying of the patients that are coming to see you with plantar fasciitis, how many of these patients, how long have they been hurting, first of all?

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

The other area that is of huge interest, for me at least, is the very, very high hamstring tendinopathies. So that ischial tuberosity pain, very, very common for runners, seems to be anecdotally much more common in women than men based on pelvic anatomy. I've only treated women for some reason with that, and they've all had tremendous results.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

The other area that is of huge interest, for me at least, is the very, very high hamstring tendinopathies. So that ischial tuberosity pain, very, very common for runners, seems to be anecdotally much more common in women than men based on pelvic anatomy. I've only treated women for some reason with that, and they've all had tremendous results.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

Is there any literature looking at this for spine injuries? By injuries, let me be clear what I mean.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

Is there any literature looking at this for spine injuries? By injuries, let me be clear what I mean.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

So when you think of all the times that people are getting spinal epidurals for irritation of spinal nerves, herniated discs, things of that nature, is there any reason to believe this could have any efficacy there if indeed there's some efficacy, which there clearly is due to spinal injections or epidural injections?

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

So when you think of all the times that people are getting spinal epidurals for irritation of spinal nerves, herniated discs, things of that nature, is there any reason to believe this could have any efficacy there if indeed there's some efficacy, which there clearly is due to spinal injections or epidural injections?

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

Interesting. And do you think it's because of patient selection? Like if you knew you were dealing with a facet arthropathy, that should in theory respond well.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

Interesting. And do you think it's because of patient selection? Like if you knew you were dealing with a facet arthropathy, that should in theory respond well.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

But your ability to center... the beam is remarkable. You're using the same high fidelity equipment you're using for radonc. So you can hit a P inside if you want to.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

But your ability to center... the beam is remarkable. You're using the same high fidelity equipment you're using for radonc. So you can hit a P inside if you want to.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

So- If you're treating somebody that comes to you and they've got an Achilles tendinopathy, usually there's a point of maximum tenderness, but it usually hurts up and down the whole Achilles. How do you position the beam? And are you literally hitting from mid-calf down to heel?

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

So- If you're treating somebody that comes to you and they've got an Achilles tendinopathy, usually there's a point of maximum tenderness, but it usually hurts up and down the whole Achilles. How do you position the beam? And are you literally hitting from mid-calf down to heel?

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

15, 15.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

15, 15.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

It's almost cancer.

The Peter Attia Drive
#343 – The evolving role of radiation: advancements in cancer treatment, emerging low-dose treatments for arthritis, tendonitis, and injuries, and addressing misconceptions | Sanjay Mehta, M.D.

It's almost cancer.