Start Line Physio

🏆 Congratulations Diego! We are all so very proud of you.

👨🏽‍🎓 4 years.

📚 4,500+ hours of training.

👨🏾‍⚕️1,200+ hours of supervised clinical experience.

🙇🏾Hundreds of patient encounters.

✅ Weeks of cadaver lab experience.

✨ Thousands of pages of biomedical science.
Anatomy. Physiology. Pharmacology. Diagnostics.

👨🏾‍⚕️Full time internship at Start Line.

👧🏾 🧒🏾2 kids at home, commuting to Vancouver.

📚One doctorate.

☝️1 goal: patient care.

🧠 Cervical radiculopathy might not be just a “pinched nerve” problem.

A study looking at 206 patients found that the size of a disc herniation on imaging did not predict:
❌ who would have more pain
❌ who would recover faster
❌ who would struggle long term

What mattered more? 👉 The inflammatory and chemical environment around the nerve root.

This means symptoms may be driven more by irritation and inflammation than by compression alone. 🔥⚡️

So while imaging can provide useful information, it doesn’t always explain the full picture of someone’s pain or recovery.

Treatment approaches that support and calm the nerve environment may play a bigger role than we once thought. 💡

📚 Read the study here:
MDPI Journal of Clinical Medicine Article:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/14/24/8900?utm_source=chatgpt.com