Tough to Treat

About Tough to Treat

Welcome to Tough to Treat: A Physiotherapists' Guide to Managing Those Complex Patients, with your hosts Erica Meloe and Susan Clinton, who discuss how they successfully treated patients that others could not. Via case history discussion, they share their physical therapy expertise from treating long standing pelvic pain to persistent neck pain. They present a holistic and integrative view on assessing and treating chronic pain. Unique movement strategies and specific patient exercise prescription are also presented so you can be ahead of the curve when it comes to treating these types of patients. Oftentimes, the source of the problem is not where you think it is!! For example, chronic low back pain emanating from the neck. Or hip pain coming from the foot. It pays to look up and down the kinetic chain! Podcast music: "Fearless First" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Publisher

Susan Clinton and Erica Meloe

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Jul 2017

Latest episode

1 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

11 of 229 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Solving Hip Pain Outside The Pelvis

   Host Erica Meloe, Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist, explores how to address hip pain that persists after pelvic floor therapy by examining connected body regions, offering insights for patients and clinicians.

2. 

   11 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Shoulder Pain…Guess Where The Real Driver Was?

   Erica Meloe, PT, DPT, explains a client case where lower extremity dysfunction caused persistent shoulder pain, offering insights into connected body systems for lasting relief.

3. 

   2 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Strategies for the Chronic Back Gripper

   Erica explains how to identify and retrain the chronic back gripping movement pattern to improve rehabilitation outcomes.

Inside a recent episode

Solving Hip Pain Outside The Pelvis

Published 1 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Plie squats as well as foot straight squats. I'm doing an active straight leg raise bilaterally, and that is really common in patients who have labral tears, who have hip issues, right? And they just over-recruit their quads. It's painful, it's extremely common, and you should just check it. and it's generally just a real muscle imbalance for the most part and so in standing uh i just generally did and so i took a look i'll show i'll tell you a bit about the what i what i what i saw but in standing uh you know you want to palpate their area of meaning and areas that are interested interesting for you and so for her her area of meaning clearly is her pelvis and her hips so you're going to palpate that Even if you don't write anything down, you've palpated it, you've shown them that, you've done that. […]

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3,834

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

119 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

13 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 70 / 100

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83

Social presence

0

YouTube

74

Engagement

67

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