Physical therapist Walt Fritz offers a new approach to manual therapy for voices. He literally wrote the book... 'Manual Therapy for Voice and Swallowing... a PersonCentered Approach'. He trains other healing arts professionals to integrate his patientinvolved approach in their own healing protocols and specialties, and that includes vocal coaches!

Watch and listen as we discuss how people heal better by participating in the theraputic process, and much more.

LINKS:

* Walt Fritz website:
https://waltfritzseminars.com/about/
* "Manual Therapy for Voice and Swallowing" book (please note this is my affiliate link): https://amzn.to/47ffWFy
*Judy Rodman website:
https://judyrodman.com/

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TIMECODES:

00:00 Introduction
02:19 How a personcentered model for manual therapy can work in crossdisciplinary settings.
03:36 The concept of 'suggesting'.
05:16 Walt explains his more comprehensive, multifactoral way to look at any intervention, and the impact of treating a patient as an equal in shared investigation and decisionmaking.
09:32 I share a story of a client whose vocal issue was affected by her belief that something was wrong.
11:30 Walt talks about his novel approach to myofascial release work, and his hesitance to subscribe to 'the issue is in the tissue', or that 'the emotions are stored in the fascia'.
12:13 We discuss the effectiveness of (appropriate) touch in therapy.
15:01 Walt describes the concept of 'tapering' to avoid creating patient dependency.
17:08 Why Walt asks his patients 'can you picture yourself being capable of change?
17:41 I mention the funny concept of 'lizard brain' being resistant to change. Walt says we're talking the same language.
18:20 More discussion on the legality and ethical concerns and the impact of theraputic touch, and of touchbased queing.
21:13 I talk about the 'purposed touch' that I learned from vocal coach Jeannie Deva.
22:51 We discuss the common issue of muscle tension dysphonia.
29:24 We talk about posture, and why Walt believes we must be careful about our assumptions for individual patients/ students.
37:03 Walt tells us how he asks for patients to get involved in his therapy with them.
38:52 Judy talks about how Walt's ideas work in studio music production.
39:32 Walt introduces his book 'Manual Therapy For Voice and Swallowing'.
41:29 I ask about Walt's online seminars and courses.