406 – Transforming Back Health: Tim Dettmann and Kieser Australia’s Pioneering Approach to High Intensity Training for Lower Back Pain (Live Q&A from REC 2023)

What does the average Physical Therapist know about HIT and strength training? In Tim Dettmann’s case, the answer appears to be ‘a lot’. In our fireside with Tim, find out how Kieser Australia has taken decades of strength training research and applied it to their 15,000 members with back pain, arthritis, diabetes and osteoporosis.

Tim is a physiotherapist and Director at Kieser Australia, and he specializes in High-Intensity Training, along with his underlying passion of getting the average Australian to understand how strength training equals health.

This episode is the Pre-REC Live Q&A with Tim.

Tim and I talked about his experience as a clinician, Kieser Training as a business, and Kieser’s unique approach to improving lower back pain and overall health. The second half deals with questions from the audience regarding exercise protocols, how to deal with clients who have lower back pain, training and coaching with the MedX Medical Lumbar Extension, and much more.

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Show Notes

• 3:07 – About Tim Dettman (physiotherapy background, Kieser Australia)
• 4:31 – The Kieser Method: Physiotherapy & Strength training
• 9:01 – Why Kieser Australia focuses on back pain treatment
• 10:41 – How to get referrals from medical doctors 
• 16:19 – Initial exercise programming and patient lifecycle
• 26:03 – Q&A #1: Do you use a formatted prescription pad? 
• 29:16 – Q&A #2: Do you do static testing before dynamic exercise?  
• 31:44 – Q&A #3: Do you know any physiotherapist in the U.S. doing the same method?
• 33:16 – Q&A #4: What’s your exercise protocol for the medical lumbar extension?
• 33:54 – Q&A #5: Do you do client intake assessment before starting any protocol?
• 37:20 – Q&A #7: How do you train/coach clients (w/ injuries) through the lumbar extension?
• 46:53 – Q&A #6: What’s the communication process between professions in your team? 
• 50:01 – Q&A #7: How to deal with client issues that are beyond your scope of practice? 
• 54:00 – Q&A #8: What’s your views on lumbar strength vs. medical lumbar extension?

Selected Links from the Episode

• Resistance Exercise Conference (REC)
• Kieser Training
• Kieser Training (Australia) 
• Discover Strength
• The australian physical activity guideline
• MedX Machines
• MedX Medical Lumbar Extension
• MedX Lumbar Strength
• Dexa Scans / DXA
• The Lancet: Low Back Pain Series
• Low back pain: a call for action by Rachelle Buchbinder et al.

People Mentioned

• Luke Carlson | Podcasts
• Gary Harley
• Tony Smith
• Werner Kieser
• Jim Flanagan | Podcasts