Building Bulletproof Backs Ep 15 - Hockey Star & Physio - Bart De Vries - Creates the World's Healthiest Desk

Welcome to the 15 th episode of the Building a Bulletproof Back podcast.

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This podcast aims to empower listeners with HOPE that healing is possible when you know how. We discuss strategic tools addressing mindset, movement & emotional health.

I am your host, Marion McRae, a physiotherapist & movement addict on a mission to see the existing model of treating back pain evolve. The current model is broken. It focusses almost entirely on the physical body, neglecting the fact that we are all both thinkers and feelers. When the thoughts in our head, and the emotions in our bodies are less than optimal, we fail to thrive.

My guest for this episode is New Zealand Physiotherapist, Bart de Vries. One day Bart was researching the best ways to get people moving and found himself suffering back pain and headaches from long hours sitting at a desk. The irony was real. 

As a former professional hockey goalie, Bart discovered that sitting at his desk could be more hazardous than having a hockey ball rocketing his way at 200km/hr. 

The typical desk set-up restricts our ability to move - if you don’t use it, you lose it. Bart needed to find a way to get moving again whilst working. Bart couldn’t find a desk that allowed enough movement so he set off to create one that did. In collaboration with engineers and designers, "Limber Desks" are world leading, with their benefits being researched by the University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Favourite Quotes - 

• When you take the Chair out of a desk - There are more ways to MOVE 
• Shoes and Chairs are sensory deprivation chambers 
• The best posture is the NEXT posture - #posturaldiversity
• Create an environment where movement is the DEFAULT, no decision making required
• Movement Quality VS Movement Strength 
• Peter O'Sullivan on youtube - START with this One 
• If your back pain does get aggravated, it's ok, it will settle 
• Treat your back pain like a cut on your hand - Healing is a given. 

Bart’s tools:

1.  Limber Desk - Available for Purchase Here   10%  Discount Code                    "BULLETPROOF BACK" 
2.  Quality Movement retraining - Body Weight rather than Heavy GYM 
3.  Lifestyle factors - Nutritional Shifts, Stress, Sleep patterns   

Bart's Top tips -

1.  Think Broadly about your pain - sleep, food, hydration, stress, etc 
2.  Increase your daily movement as much as possible -structure your environment 
3.  Increase Extension Range with Quality 
4.  Maintain Hope 

Links : Limber Products ,