What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness

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  Can Physical Therapy and Pain Reprocessing Therapy Work Together for Headache Relief? 14.09.2026 30min

  Can physical therapy and Pain Reprocessing Therapy work together for headache relief? In this episode of What’s in Your Head? Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Pete Schultz, PT, DPT, OCS, explores how neck function, neurological factors, and pain processing can overlap—and why treatment should evolve as your symptoms and needs change. Pete discusses migraine, tension-type headaches, cervicogenic headaches, and other head pain patterns, explaining why identifying the headache type is an essentia...
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  Tinnitus, Hyperacousis, Concussion, and the Brain. Practical Strategies for Recovery. 01.09.2026 41min

  In this episode of What’s In Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz explores tinnitus, hyperacusis, phonophobia, and misophonia—and why these symptoms can become especially challenging after concussion or migraine. We discuss the difference between these conditions, how the brain filters and interprets sound, and how attention, fear, hypervigilance, stress, and nervous system sensitization can amplify persistent symptoms. You’ll also learn when hearing protection is truly...
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  Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility. Why being too flexable can hurt and what actually helps. 17.08.2026 32min

  Episode 20: Ehlers-Danlos and Hypermobility – Why Being Too Flexible Can Hurt (and What Actually Helps)What if being too flexible is actually contributing to your pain? In this episode of What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz explores Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (HSD)—two conditions that affect connective tissue and can lead to chronic pain, recurrent injuries, headaches, dizziness, fatigue, and joint instability. You'll lea...
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  Understanding Hip Pain – Why It Hurts and What Helps 03.08.2026 28min

  Episode 19: Understanding Hip Pain – Why It Hurts and What Helps Hip pain isn't just one condition—it can come from the hip joint, muscles, tendons, bursae, lower back, pelvis, or even the nervous system when pain becomes persistent. In this episode, Dr. Pete Schultz breaks down the most common causes of hip pain, including labral tears, femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), hip arthritis, hip flexor and gluteal tendinopathy, bursitis, hip dysplasia, SCFE, and athletic pubalgia (sports hernia)....
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  Midlife, Menopause & Pain: Why Everything Suddenly Hurts and What You Can Do About it. 20.07.2026 26min

  Midlife, Menopause & Pain: Why Everything Suddenly Hurts (and What You Can Do About It) Why do so many women notice new aches, headaches, joint stiffness, and persistent pain during midlife? Is it "just getting older," or is something else happening? In this episode of What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz, Doctor of Physical Therapy, expands on his recent discussion with physicians from Hospital for Special Surgery to explore why pain often changes during pe...
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  Ménière's Disease: Vestibular Rehabilitation and Other Practical Treatment Approaches 08.07.2026 27min

  Ménière's disease is a complex inner ear disorder that can cause episodes of vertigo, hearing loss, tinnitus, and a feeling of fullness in the ear. While these symptoms can be frightening and unpredictable, there are many strategies that can help people better manage the condition and improve their quality of life. In this episode of What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz discusses what Ménière's disease is, how it is diagnosed, and why symptoms can vary so much...
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  Somatic Tracking: A 5-Minute Guided Exercise to Calm Pain, Dizziness, and Other Symptoms 30.06.2026 10min

  Somatic Tracking: A 5-Minute Guided Exercise to Calm Pain, Dizziness, and Other Symptoms In this special guided episode of What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz leads you through a simple five-minute somatic tracking exercise designed to help calm an overprotective nervous system. Somatic tracking is a core technique used in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and other mind-body approaches for persistent pain and symptoms. Rather than trying to ignore or fight uncom...
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  Fibromyalgia: Understanding the Diagnosis and Tools for Recovery 08.06.2026 21min

  In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Pete Schultz, DPT, OCS, takes a deep dive into fibromyalgia — a chronic widespread pain condition that is often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and frustrating for patients trying to find answers. Pete discusses how fibromyalgia is considered a clinical diagnosis, what symptoms are commonly associated with it, and why modern pain science now views fibromyalgia as involving a sensitized nervous system and altered pain process...
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  Understanding the Most Common Causes of Low Back Pain 26.05.2026 24min

  In this episode of What’s in Your Head, Dr. Pete Schultz breaks down the different types of low back pain commonly seen in physical therapy — and why low back pain is often much more complex than people think. Pete discusses: Lumbar disc herniationsSciatica and lumbar radiculopathySpinal stenosisLumbar strains and sprainsSegmental stiffness and hypomobilitySI joint and lumbar instabilityPars fractures in adolescent athletesChronic and neuroplastic low back painThe episode also explores why im...
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  Vestibular Therapy for Post Concussion Symptoms: What it is and how it helps. 04.05.2026 21min
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  Cervicogenic Headache and Cervicagenic Dizziness: Can my neck be causing headache and dizziness? 27.04.2026 24min

  Can your neck really cause dizziness or headaches? In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz, physical therapist, breaks down the topic of cervicogenic dizziness and cervicogenic headache—two conditions that can be confusing, frustrating, and often overlap with vestibular, migraine, and stress-related symptoms. You’ll learn how the neck, nervous system, balance system, and autonomic nervous system can all interact to create symptoms like dizzines...
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  Special Episode: Guided Affirmations Practice for Pain and Dizziness 13.04.2026 9min

  In this special episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness, Pete Schultz, DPT, OCS, walks you through a simple, practical tool you can use when pain or dizziness starts to increase. This guided affirmation exercise is designed to help regulate your nervous system by providing consistent signals of safety to the brain. When symptoms ramp up, the nervous system can become more protective and sensitive—this exercise combines paced breathing with targeted affirmations to help re...
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  What is Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness PPPD and what to do to resolve it. 30.03.2026 29min

  Episode 10: What is Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD) and How to Resolve It Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD) is a common but often misunderstood condition that can develop after a vestibular event like BPPV, vestibular neuritis, concussion, or vestibular migraine. Even after the initial issue improves, people are often left with ongoing dizziness, imbalance, and sensitivity to motion or busy environments—despite normal testing. In this episode, we break down what ...
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  Pain Reprocessing Therapy for Persistent Pain and Dizziness 09.03.2026 22min

  Episode 9: Pain Reprocessing Therapy Chronic pain and persistent symptoms can be incredibly frustrating—especially when medical testing doesn’t clearly explain what you’re feeling. In this episode of What’s in Your Head, Dr. Pete Schultz discusses Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and a core technique called somatic tracking, a tool designed to help retrain the nervous system when pain persists beyond normal tissue healing. Pain Reprocessing Therapy is a neuroscience-based approach that helps p...
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  Hip and Knee Replacement: How to Know When it's the Right Time! 24.02.2026 40min

  Hip and knee pain are some of the most common reasons people seek medical care, and many are told early on that they’ll eventually need a joint replacement. Imaging often shows arthritis or “bone-on-bone” changes, but those findings alone don’t determine when surgery is truly necessary. In this episode, Pete Schultz Doctor of Physical Therapy breaks down what hip and knee osteoarthritis actually is, why pain doesn’t always match the amount of joint damage, and how to think through both non-su...
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  Migraine Beyond Medication: A Multi-Systems Approach 17.02.2026 31min

  Episode Title: Migraine Beyond Medication: A Multi-Systems Approach Episode Description: Migraine is not just a headache — it’s a complex neurologic condition involving the nervous system, sensory processing, and multiple body systems. In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz, physical therapist, goes beyond medication and explores where conservative, non-pharmacologic strategies fit into modern migraine care. Medications can be helpful for man...
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  How to use Biofeedback for Pain and Dizziness 09.02.2026 42min

  Episode Summary In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz breaks down what biofeedback actually is—and just as importantly, what it isn’t. Biofeedback is not the treatment. It’s a measurement tool that lets us see the autonomic nervous system in real time. The real treatment is still things like breathing, muscle relaxation, visualization, meditation, and mindfulness. Biofeedback simply shows us how the nervous system is responding to those tools,...
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  Concussion: What's Actually Happening and How To Completely Recover. 02.02.2026 39min

  Episode 5 — Concussion: What’s Actually Happening and How to Fully Recover In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Pete Schultz, Doctor of Physical Therapy, breaks down what a concussion really is — and just as importantly, what it is not. Concussions are common in sports and everyday life — car accidents, falls, hitting your head, or even sudden force to the body. Yet many people are told to “just rest and wait,” even when symptoms linger for weeks or months. ...
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  Vertigo or Dizziness? Understanding BPPV and How To Fix It. 25.01.2026 25min

  Have you ever rolled over in bed, looked up, or laid down — and suddenly the entire room started spinning? In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz, Doctor of Physical Therapy, breaks down one of the most common — and most misunderstood — causes of vertigo: BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo). BPPV can feel intense and alarming, often sending people to urgent care or the emergency room fearing something serious is wrong with their brai...
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  Understanding The Different Types of Headache 20.01.2026 32min

  In this episode of What’s in Your Head, we take a deep dive into the different types of headaches — and why understanding them matters. While many people think “a headache is just a headache,” different headache types reflect different patterns in the nervous system. Migraine, tension-type headaches, cervicogenic headaches, post-traumatic headaches, neuralgia, and new daily persistent headaches all present differently and often respond to different treatment approaches. We’ll break down the k...