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The MedGym Podcast
Gymnastics, dance, and figure skating ask the body to do beautiful, impossible things - and rarely talk about what that costs. The MedGym Podcast is where that conversation finally happens. Hosted by physical therapist Gina Pongetti Angeletti, it's an honest look at health in the sport: the mental, the physical, and the training that ties them together.
Every other Thursday, Gina sits down with the athletes, clinicians, and coaches who actually live it - for real talk about injury and comeback…
Episodes
The MedGym PodcastThe Long Way Back: Liz Crandall-Howell, Clemson Co-Head Coach and FIG Brevet Judge
Liz Crandall-Howell made the 1991 World Championships team, missed the Olympic team for Barcelona a year later, and got to college certain she had failed. Then…
The MedGym PodcastFeel and Physics: Tiago Bessa, SPIETH Engineer and Former Elite Gymnast
Tiago Bessa competed for Portugal for a decade, then looked at a stress-strain graph in a university materials class and realized the high bar he had swung on…
The MedGym PodcastWhat's Under the Chalk: Jan Stechmann and Jeanette Wörner of SPIETH
Every gymnast at Worlds lands on the same mats, swings on the same bars and punches off the same boards. Jan Stechmann and Jeanette Wörner of SPIETH, the…
The MedGym PodcastBuilt on Less: Aimee Boorman, Simone Biles' Coach
Simone Biles trained about twenty hours a week at fourteen. Aimee Boorman, the coach who set that number, explains why it was not forty. Aimee met Simone in…
The MedGym PodcastKnowing What to Ignore: Dr. Brian Cole, Sports Medicine Surgeon
Dr. Brian Cole operates on professional athletes for a living. Four out of five people who walk into his office will never be operated on at all. He is an…
The MedGym PodcastDo What You Know How to Do: Jaycie Phelps, Magnificent Seven Olympic Champion
Jaycie Phelps did not make a single routine in warm-ups at the Olympic Games. Then she led off for the Magnificent Seven. She was sixteen, first up on the…
The MedGym PodcastThe People Already Moving: Dr. Mark Hutchinson, Team USA Olympic Physician
When a gymnast lands badly, the camera goes to her face. Dr. Mark Hutchinson is one of the people already moving. He has been one of them at six Olympic and…
The MedGym PodcastFour Seats in the Same Sport: Amanda Borden, Magnificent Seven Captain
A lot of people leave this sport when the sport is done with them. Amanda Borden never left. She was captain of the Magnificent Seven — the seven women who won…
The MedGym PodcastWelcome to The MedGym Podcast
The athletes we love deserve better than we've given them. For 25+ years, physical therapist and sports-medicine specialist Gina Pongetti Angeletti has been…