In today’s episode, Shaun talks to Tom Heeley, a Sports Therapist based in the UK about his career working with athletes and teams at all levels of many different sports. Working with sporting teams can seem to be an exciting and dynamic opportunity for health care providers. But how to you get your foot in the door, how to you work your way up in the ranks, how to make those connections in unique sports and how to you become a valuable member of the sports medicine team?
Tom will answer all those questions for you.

In this episode Shaun and Bo dive into the connection between pain, personal narratives, and the embodied experience of pain. A patient’s story isn’t just a reflection of their pain, it actively shapes how they feel, move, and engage with the world. This podcast will explore how the narratives patients hold can become part of their identity and influence their recovery.

In this first episode for 2025, Shaun chats to Gavin Kervill (The TCM Medic) from the United Kingdom about the challenges that exist between the Dry Needling and Acupuncture professions.
Gavin shared some fairly strongly worded objections to Dry Needling online, in the comments of one of the ACE posts about Dry Needling. So, Shaun invited Gavin to chat about these issues online and both agreed that if the conversation was a balanced and useful one, that we would make it into a podcast… And here we are!
We trust that this episode will help to build greater interdisciplinary understanding and to improve the respect shown between practitioners of each modality.
Enjoy.