
TOUGH TO TREAT
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Latest Episodes
#74: Does scapula stabilization always work?
This episode is about a weightlifter who suffered a T1 avulsion fracture, had surgery to remove the fragment and still had...
#73: Post-partum back and abdominal pain – what is the priority?
Let's continue with the 3 powerful questions in determing the direction and priority of intervention. Immediate post-partum...
#72: Herniated disc? Or Fear of sitting?
What do you do when your patient tells you she has not sat for 9 months? And furthermore, a healthcare practitioner told...
#71: Pelvic girdle pain and the BPS approach
What are your three powerful questions that you use with your clients? Join Erica and I as we talk about working with...
#70: I Hurt Everywhere
Who hasn't heard this? This patient was seen in the clinic once just prior to the COVID-19 crisis and then progressed...
#69: Chronic Achilles Insertional Tendonosis
What do we really know about the achilles tendon and the various forms of tendonosis? What do you do when the eccentric...
Meet The Hosts

Meet Erica
I solved unique financial puzzles on Wall Street for a decade. Now I utilize those same strengths to help rid my patients of pain so that they can live their lives on their own terms.
The greatest victories in my physical therapy career are realized when I apply my natural problem-solving skills, honed even further on Wall Street, to help alleviate my patients’ pain; … pain that in many cases no one else has been able to resolve.
I work with my patients to uncover the true source of their pain, and together we work towards them becoming pain-free.
I’m so fortunate to have found my true calling and to be able to help people in the most important area of their lives – their health!

Meet Susan
Susan is a certified and award-winning physical therapist in professional achievement, health and wellness coach, and owner of LTI Physio (Learn, Think, Innovate) in Sault Sainte Marie, MI. She is an international instructor of post-professional education in women’s health (including pelvic health issues in women), orthopedic manual therapy, and positive intelligence coaching for Healthcare providers and business psychology. She is faculty at Andrews University, a Master Coach for the Integrative Women’s Health Institute, and faculty for North American Institute of Orthopedic Manual Therapy and ASPIRE OMT
In addition to co-hosting Tough to Treat, Susan also co-hosts “The Genius Project,” reframing the treatment of persistent musculoskeletal pain. She is the co-founder and board member for the foundation: Global Women’s Health Initiative and a reviewer and advisory board member for the Journal of Women’s Health Physical Therapy. She also has recently launched her Pelvic Health Education Subscription aimed at helping clinicians become more proficient and confident in treating pelvic health conditions.
When she isn’t advocating for women’s health and mentoring other clinicians, Susan enjoys walking/hiking, country line dance, and ballroom dancing, a supporter of music, the arts, and international objectives for women’s health.