About Good Outcomes: What They Don’t Teach You in PT School
Are you a physical therapist frustrated with your current client outcomes? Are too many patients just not getting better? The founder of Renew Integrative Physical Therapy's residency program, Dr. Dave Harvitz,DPT, CSC1, challenges conventional care, explores root-cause, functional approaches, and highlights what it takes to create outcomes that last.
The first episode of each month is a real conversations with clinicians helping patients heal while avoiding PT burnout.
In an every-other-week rotation, you'll hear the Clinicians Corner & Patient Perspectives segments.
In Clinicians Corner, Dr. Dave shares the behind the scenes of a successful cash-based clinic.
In Patient Perspectives, Dr Dave & a real patient share their hurting to healing journey.
Whether you're a new PT grad, a seasoned clinician or looking to specialize in the self-pay & cash-based space, you'll feel inspired by Dr. Dave's experience using an integrative approach to address root causes in physical therapy. You'll find clarity and conviction for yourself and a path forward for patient results that last.
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Ep 11 | "Counterstrain 101: A Clinician Q&A" with Zach Schmucker
"I don't sell people the flight, I sell them Disney World." - Dr. Dave In this episode of Clinicians Corner, Dr. Dave sits down with fellow counterstrainer Dr. Zach Schmucker for a wide-ranging Q&A built entirely around Zach's questions. They cover the practical, in-the-trenches side of fascial counterstrain: why Dr. Dave still references his books mid-treatment, how to feel tender points through adipose tissue, and the exact speed you need to test joint rigidity correctly. The conv...
29 Sept 2026
Ep 10 | Low Hormone Epidemic - Interview with Brian Herbert
"You don't have to feel awful. I did for 16 years and you don't have to either." - Brian Herbert, PA-C For years, Brian Herbert chalked up his exhaustion to the demands of a career as an Army Ranger in special operations. It wasn't until a fellow soldier sent him a podcast about military hormone health that he had his own labs checked and discovered what had actually been true since he was 24 years old: his testosterone had been critically low for over a decade, and no one had ever told him. ...
15 Sept 2026
Ep 9 | PATIENT PERSPECTIVE: From ICU to Deadlifts: The “Impossible” Recovery
"After my stroke when I was in ICU, the paperwork… said ‘Death likely’. And here I am." - Sarah Schreiner In January 2017, Sarah Schreiner was a healthy, active 30-year-old mother of two, fresh off a ski trip. Within days, what seemed like the flu spiraled into bacterial meningitis and two strokes. She woke up in the ICU unable to walk, feed herself, or remember how she got there, with doctors warning she might never drive or work again. That was only the beginning. Six months later, Sarah de...
1 Sept 2026
Ep. 8 | CLINICIAN’S CORNER: Explained Simply, THIS is Fascial Counterstain!
"There was a time my wife was struggling with things I couldn't help her with and it was Fascial Counterstrain that got her out of it." - Dr. Dave Fascial counterstrain isn't voodoo, it's neuroscience. In this episode of Clinician's Corner, Dr. Dave breaks down the neurological model behind fascial counterstrain: how trapped inflammatory proteins (cytokines) get stuck in your tissue after an injury, how the body's own protective response ends up causing chronic pain, tightness, and dysfunctio...
18 Aug 2026
Ep. 7 | "The Body TRAPS the Score" Full Interview with Counterstrain Founder Brian Tuckey, PT
In this interview episode of Good Outcomes, Dr. Dave sits down with Brian Tuckey PT, the creator of Fascial Counterstrain and one of the last physical therapists personally trained by Dr. Lawrence Jones, the osteopathic physician who developed strain counterstrain in the 1950s. Brian traces the full origin story, from his early disillusionment with "no pain, no gain" manual therapy, to the moment Dr. Jones stumbled onto counterstrain almost by accident with a single patient, to the decades of...
4 Aug 2026
Ep 6 | PATIENT PERSPECTIVE: "Unbelievable!" - A Decade of Back Pain Solved
"Unbelievable. Every time I come in, that's the word that comes into my mind, unbelievable." For over a decade, Tim Krug, owner of Dude Wash and a Pensacola local business owner, dealt with chronic back and neck pain that chiropractors couldn't explain and regular exercise based physical therapy couldn't fix. In this episode of Patient Perspectives, Tim sits down with Dr. Dave to walk through his entire healing journey: from a basement gymnastics injury at 16, to years of "pop and pray" chiro...
21 Jul 2026
Ep 5 | CLINICIAN’S CORNER: How I Got FIRED - Best career move ever!
"Getting fired was the best thing I ever did for my career." That's how Dr. Dave opens up about the moment his home health job pulled his salary out from under him, right before a pandemic that no one saw coming. In this episode of Good Outcomes' Clinician's Corner, Dr. Dave shares the real story behind starting Renew. You will find: How a 2019 Medicare policy shift (PDGM) quietly cut PT pay industry-wideWhy his company slashed his salary by 40% with only a few months' warningThe moment a...
7 Jul 2026
Ep 4 | Hidden in Plain Sight: Following the Clues of Mold & Lyme with Integrative NP Jessica Ham
How do 20 seemingly unrelated symptoms sometimes trace back to one root cause? Dr. Dave sits down with Jessica Ham, FNP, of Regenesis Performance in Pensacola for a Clinician's Corner deep dive on two of the most commonly missed chronic illness triggers: mold toxicity and Lyme disease. Jessica walks through why these conditions share so many overlapping symptoms, how she tests and confirms each one and what treatment actually looks like. Jessica Ham is a Family Nurse Pr...
30 Jun 2026
Ep 3 | PATIENT PERSPECTIVE: !!Surgery Canceled!! Gastroparesis, GERD, and Bladder Disfunction
"I used to sit in my house and not leave, nights and nights in a row, because I was afraid of what was gonna happen." For over a decade, patient Jen Superdock lived with a cascade of conditions that doctors struggled to connect: chronic pelvic pain, gastroparesis, GERD, Barrett's esophagus, and sudden, unexplained loss of bladder control. She tried physical therapy, pelvic floor therapy, medications, and eventually a surgically implanted bladder stimulator with underwhelming results. In t...
16 Jun 2026
Ep 2 | CLINICIAN’S CORNER: Is "You can't help everyone" a COP OUT?!
“I don’t want your money if I’m not fixing you.” In this Clinician's Corner episode, Dr. Dave breaks down the three core reasons why so many patients remain in pain despite treatment. You’ll hear: Why the phrase "you can't help everyone" is a clinical cop-outHow insurance reimbursement structures push clinicians toward volume over outcomesWhy pain is the last thing to happen in a pain sequence — not the firstWhat a "root cause" actually means in the chronic pain world (hi...
2 Jun 2026
Ep 1 | The REAL (Broken) State of Physical Therapy: Becoming Uncaged with David Bayliff
What keeps mainstream physical therapy from ACTUALLY healing patients? You're not imagining it. The system is broken. In this episode, Dr. Dave sits down with David Bailiff, DPT, a 30-year veteran of the profession and co-founder of the Uncaged Clinician, to talk honestly about why so many PTs are burned out, why patient outcomes are suffering, and what a different path actually looks like. David was one of the earliest mobile concierge physical therapists in the country, going all-in on ...
6 Apr 2026
TRAILER: Healing is Possible!
If you're a healthcare provider or a patient that is frustrated with the status quo in our healthcare system, you aren't alone. The main reason for this frustration on both sides is the lack of good outcomes. Host Dr. Dave Harvitz has been a doctor of physical therapy for 15 years, specializing in the chronic pain cases. In the first episode of the month, Dr. Dave talks with leading clinicians and researchers to tackle the hard questions. Then every other week, he reveals the behi...
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