I am sitting this AM St. Pete Beach, FL thinking about my 2026 New Life Resolution (I don’t believe in making temporary changes to my life or me only permanent). They say that if you lose your health you will never take it for granted again and I won’t. In 2021 I got the vid like everyone but I ended up getting long covid or ME/CFS. We learned about myalgic encephalitis (brain swelling)/ chronic fatigue syndrome in school. If you had told that the human body was capable of that level of fatigue I would say not possible. The last 4.5 years I was almost completely debilitated. I laid in bed after work, couldn’t play with my kids, thinking about getting up to go to the bathroom was an overwhelming thought. It was the most horrific time of my life and I have had mental illness most of my life (OCD). There is a misconception by the way that only vaxxed people get it. This isn’t true as I got it and never got the shot. After spending about 20k on things that kinda helped or not at all I finally read that study out of Europe about of an MD who gave a small group of patients low dose nicotine patches and within a week they were better. I said that sounds crazy but I am desperate. My memory was gone my assistant legitimately thought I had Alzheimer’s as I couldn’t remember if I ate breakfast that morning. I felt great for 2 weeks then I crashed for about 4 weeks then I started to really feel better and am almost totally better in 4 months still patching 7 days on 7 days off. I am forever grateful to that MD who published that case study. There is a darkness in disability I found that out the hard way. * Not Medical Advice * just my personal story. I am forever grateful for my health! I read a tweet by an infectious disease MD who takes care of these people with ME/CFS and I almost started crying because no one gets how bad it is. He said it’s worse than any condition he has ever seen “nothing compares” he said worse than end stage cancer and organ rejection sepsis. (See below)

Hope everyone had a safe Christmas. I’m currently sitting at a car dealership, waiting. Before I arrived, the front desk associate told me, “Be prepared to wait 3–5 hours.” I reacted with, “What?”—and he followed up by saying something I often teach my hybrid clinical and business students: “I just want to manage expectations.” That response immediately stood out to me. It was smart, intentional, and clearly the result of good training. It took me years in clinical practice to fully appreciate the importance of expectation management. If we fail to warn patients about what could happen, they often become skeptical, frustrated, and may even quit when something occurs that they believe “shouldn’t” have happened. In those moments, patients may interpret normal variability as incompetence. For example, with SI joint rehabilitation, I tell patients: “About 9 out of 10 patients get better within 5–8 weeks. However, every year there are a handful of patients who take longer—sometimes several months—and I always warn people upfront.” That honesty changes everything. Not only do patients appreciate the transparency—especially chronic pain patients who are accustomed to being sold to—it builds trust. When rehab takes longer than expected, the process goes much more smoothly because expectations were clearly set from the beginning. Managing expectations isn’t pessimism. It’s professionalism and save patients from quitting when they were in the right place

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Those new to the group or those that haven’t watched them here are some webinars of techniques I use to get patients out of pain immediately in one post. Please watch and use See graphic below of my statistically historic papers I published getting multiple times the readership 3-5 years post publication than even the biggest medical journals in the world! Click here to read my papers ====>>> https://wheltonmethods.com/resources/ Secret to Shoulder Pain Diagnosis https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/yurJU8DxLhjPmqRSDmGklgbxkWMH_A1FFdzkyxjieCqJNH1eaUax1z5Cq-N7-H9b.7CrUfH2cNvS2IZ0Y Passcode: V6N?CsYb Trick to Sacral Torsion/Shear Diagnosis https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/Ql7t5MqT9Eny_tC0y9OWQZBxmfCk9f5uztr9fQj054xB2jRjagUISqrxdsKhFpts.iuTc7qlFVTAqSxk6 Passcode: 2*sP4&aq Secret to Tennis Elbow Relief https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/ZpuS1lRWMYZB8Jzo4Zu1j6VcRpCk3yg2sSC6PTjEFMeYTADatJG4gkxUnLu-nRPI.-S52cFbpxP_OmkSX Passcode: 4!EBA8Dl Secret to Headache Relief https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/2_yfX6QEyXbNQXf737Pk66s6AiJpNMAOYFnOxqyurzQnl58uadtFZPPgwnmhWvGr.BZIK3BksVupwesI5 Passcode: *RwgnXE1 Secret to Cervical Pain Rehab https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/QQTsvt83vOYs5ueNmiYl8axLLuQbflnhlxhFNcvr7RhfZp8a54MdrtQIYwp9rpxl.OJae9T65ND7mmW4S Passcode: 9hCuia4+ Low Back Pain Eval & Treatment https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/MDztfUj5Qn0t3a_KNcNJW-jkx6kQKb9CihziiXt9SoFF7zN7Ho6SGv6z1faNMcrh.6zQCb94Rx7JoN40R

In this video I give you my clinical reasoning as to why patella femoral syndrome is made WORSE by quad strengthening I haven’t worried about my PFS patients in over a decade not getting better, click here to watch and click "Subscribe":===>>https://youtu.be/DhKGIVW3-LU?si=1nHlzmN7W6PL0LaG