Jul 15, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 11 segments
What if your neck pain isn't actually about your neck? Nadine has been calling Dr. Jared Gerston a magician for years and this week she finally put him on mic to explain why. Dr. Gerston is a…
Right.
Um, uh, you were recommended by a friend of mine who literally said, "I don't know what he does, but go." 'Cause I think, I, I mean, I've been there so many times now because, well, you know, I love moving my body in different ways and there's always something that comes up-
...
when you're f- in your 40s and you're active.
But the first time, I think it was my Achilles heels were killing me, and I had just started a step pra- um, business, movement practice, and I'm like, "I just, I just launched this business and I can't do it," 'cause my Achilles are...
I, they felt like, um, they almost felt like they were cement.
They felt they were so hard and they weren't flexible at all, and, um, I thought they were gonna snap in half, and that's what led me to go see you.
And then, I don't know what it is you do, and I'm going to ask you so many questions about it, but, uh, not like you fixed me, but with...
I just t-
What do you do? What's the name of it? Tell me.
So I primarily use a technique called PDTR, proprioceptive deep tendon reflexes.
Okay.
I love it.
And so it's essentially a technique that, um, we're working on compensation patterns, but it's a technique that looks at sensitivities in the body, sensitivities coming from different tissues, basically easily stimulated, um, receptors inside tissues that are causing dysfunction in the body in some way, movement dysfunction in some way.
So the premise behind it is that the, the brain is keeping track of all of this information coming in from the body, right? It's keeping track of the position of your joint, keeping track of muscle tone, it's keeping track of your, the pH of your blood.
Like, everything is, is being tracked by your brain, but we're not aware of most of it.
Now, oftentimes after an injury or a surgery or maybe repetitive strain, whatever it might be, there's, um, there's a tissue injury.
Those tissues will heal, but there are receptors inside those tissues that can remain very sensitive and easily stimulated, and they're sending off all these signals to the brain which are very disproportionate to what they should be sending off.
Right.
Um, uh, you were recommended by a friend of mine who literally said, "I don't know what he does, but go." 'Cause I think, I, I mean, I've been there so many times now because, well, you know, I love moving my body in different ways and there's always something that comes up-
...
when you're f- in your 40s and you're active.
But the first time, I think it was my Achilles heels were killing me, and I had just started a step pra- um, business, movement practice, and I'm like, "I just, I just launched this business and I can't do it," 'cause my Achilles are...
I, they felt like, um, they almost felt like they were cement.
They felt they were so hard and they weren't flexible at all, and, um, I thought they were gonna snap in half, and that's what led me to go see you.
And then, I don't know what it is you do, and I'm going to ask you so many questions about it, but, uh, not like you fixed me, but with...
I just t-
What do you do? What's the name of it? Tell me.
So I primarily use a technique called PDTR, proprioceptive deep tendon reflexes.
Okay.
I love it.
And so it's essentially a technique that, um, we're working on compensation patterns, but it's a technique that looks at sensitivities in the body, sensitivities coming from different tissues, basically easily stimulated, um, receptors inside tissues that are causing dysfunction in the body in some way, movement dysfunction in some way.
So the premise behind it is that the, the brain is keeping track of all of this information coming in from the body, right? It's keeping track of the position of your joint, keeping track of muscle tone, it's keeping track of your, the pH of your blood.
Like, everything is, is being tracked by your brain, but we're not aware of most of it.
Now, oftentimes after an injury or a surgery or maybe repetitive strain, whatever it might be, there's, um, there's a tissue injury.
Those tissues will heal, but there are receptors inside those tissues that can remain very sensitive and easily stimulated, and they're sending off all these signals to the brain which are very disproportionate to what they should be sending off.
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