What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness
What's In Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness is a podcast about persistent pain, dizziness, headaches, stress, and symptoms that don't always make sense. Hosted by Dr. Pete Schultz, a physical therapist with over 20 years of experience, the show explores why symptoms persist through the nervous system and how the brain and body interact. Each episode offers practical, evidence-based tools such as pain reprocessing, somatic tracking, mindfulness, self-regulation exercises, biofeedback, vestibular rehabilitation, and movement-based therapies to help listeners calm their nervous system and feel more confident in their bodies. It's designed for anyone who's been told "everything looks normal" but still struggles with lingering symptoms.
Episodes
Vestibular Migraine: Practical Strategies for Treatment.
Episode 23: Vestibular Migraine—Practical Strategies for TreatmentDizziness in the grocery store? Discomfort scrolling on your phone? Feeling off balance when turning your head? Vestibular migraine can cause dizziness, motion sensitivity, and vertigo—even without a headache.In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, physical therapist Dr. Pete Schultz explores vestibul
Can Physical Therapy and Pain Reprocessing Therapy Work Together for Headache Relief?
Can physical therapy and Pain Reprocessing Therapy work together for headache relief? In this episode of What’s in Your Head? Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Pete Schultz, PT, DPT, OCS, explores how neck function, neurological factors, and pain processing can overlap—and why treatment should evolve as your symptoms and needs change.Pete discusses migraine, tension-type headaches, cervicogenic head
Tinnitus, Hyperacousis, Concussion, and the Brain. Practical Strategies for Recovery.
In this episode of What’s In Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz explores tinnitus, hyperacusis, phonophobia, and misophonia—and why these symptoms can become especially challenging after concussion or migraine.We discuss the difference between these conditions, how the brain filters and interprets sound, and how attention, fear, hypervigilance, stress, and nervous system s
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility. Why being too flexable can hurt and what actually helps.
Episode 20: Ehlers-Danlos and Hypermobility – Why Being Too Flexible Can Hurt (and What Actually Helps)What if being too flexible is actually contributing to your pain?In this episode of What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz explores Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (HSD)—two conditions that affect connective tissue and can lead
Understanding Hip Pain – Why It Hurts and What Helps
Episode 19: Understanding Hip Pain – Why It Hurts and What HelpsHip pain isn't just one condition—it can come from the hip joint, muscles, tendons, bursae, lower back, pelvis, or even the nervous system when pain becomes persistent.In this episode, Dr. Pete Schultz breaks down the most common causes of hip pain, including labral tears, femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), hip arthritis, hip fl
Midlife, Menopause & Pain: Why Everything Suddenly Hurts and What You Can Do About it.
Midlife, Menopause & Pain: Why Everything Suddenly Hurts (and What You Can Do About It)Why do so many women notice new aches, headaches, joint stiffness, and persistent pain during midlife? Is it "just getting older," or is something else happening?In this episode of What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz, Doctor of Physical Therapy, expands on his r
Ménière's Disease: Vestibular Rehabilitation and Other Practical Treatment Approaches
Ménière's disease is a complex inner ear disorder that can cause episodes of vertigo, hearing loss, tinnitus, and a feeling of fullness in the ear. While these symptoms can be frightening and unpredictable, there are many strategies that can help people better manage the condition and improve their quality of life.In this episode of What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Dr
Somatic Tracking: A 5-Minute Guided Exercise to Calm Pain, Dizziness, and Other Symptoms
Somatic Tracking: A 5-Minute Guided Exercise to Calm Pain, Dizziness, and Other SymptomsIn this special guided episode of What's in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz leads you through a simple five-minute somatic tracking exercise designed to help calm an overprotective nervous system.Somatic tracking is a core technique used in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and othe
Fibromyalgia: Understanding the Diagnosis and Tools for Recovery
In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Pete Schultz, DPT, OCS, takes a deep dive into fibromyalgia — a chronic widespread pain condition that is often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and frustrating for patients trying to find answers.Pete discusses how fibromyalgia is considered a clinical diagnosis, what symptoms are commonly associated with it, and why modern pain
Understanding the Most Common Causes of Low Back Pain
In this episode of What’s in Your Head, Dr. Pete Schultz breaks down the different types of low back pain commonly seen in physical therapy — and why low back pain is often much more complex than people think.Pete discusses:Lumbar disc herniationsSciatica and lumbar radiculopathySpinal stenosisLumbar strains and sprainsSegmental stiffness and hypomobilitySI joint and lumbar instabilityPars fractur
Vestibular Therapy for Post Concussion Symptoms: What it is and how it helps.
Cervicogenic Headache and Cervicagenic Dizziness: Can my neck be causing headache and dizziness?
Can your neck really cause dizziness or headaches? In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz, physical therapist, breaks down the topic of cervicogenic dizziness and cervicogenic headache—two conditions that can be confusing, frustrating, and often overlap with vestibular, migraine, and stress-related symptoms.You’ll learn how the neck, nervous system
Special Episode: Guided Affirmations Practice for Pain and Dizziness
In this special episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness, Pete Schultz, DPT, OCS, walks you through a simple, practical tool you can use when pain or dizziness starts to increase.This guided affirmation exercise is designed to help regulate your nervous system by providing consistent signals of safety to the brain. When symptoms ramp up, the nervous system can become more prote
What is Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness PPPD and what to do to resolve it.
Episode 10: What is Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD) and How to Resolve ItPersistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD) is a common but often misunderstood condition that can develop after a vestibular event like BPPV, vestibular neuritis, concussion, or vestibular migraine. Even after the initial issue improves, people are often left with ongoing dizziness, imbalance, and sensiti
Pain Reprocessing Therapy for Persistent Pain and Dizziness
Episode 9: Pain Reprocessing TherapyChronic pain and persistent symptoms can be incredibly frustrating—especially when medical testing doesn’t clearly explain what you’re feeling. In this episode of What’s in Your Head, Dr. Pete Schultz discusses Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and a core technique called somatic tracking, a tool designed to help retrain the nervous system when pain persists beyon
Hip and Knee Replacement: How to Know When it's the Right Time!
Hip and knee pain are some of the most common reasons people seek medical care, and many are told early on that they’ll eventually need a joint replacement. Imaging often shows arthritis or “bone-on-bone” changes, but those findings alone don’t determine when surgery is truly necessary.In this episode, Pete Schultz Doctor of Physical Therapy breaks down what hip and knee osteoarthritis actually is
Migraine Beyond Medication: A Multi-Systems Approach
Episode Title: Migraine Beyond Medication: A Multi-Systems ApproachEpisode Description:Migraine is not just a headache — it’s a complex neurologic condition involving the nervous system, sensory processing, and multiple body systems.In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz, physical therapist, goes beyond medication and explores where conservative, n
How to use Biofeedback for Pain and Dizziness
Episode SummaryIn this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz breaks down what biofeedback actually is—and just as importantly, what it isn’t.Biofeedback is not the treatment. It’s a measurement tool that lets us see the autonomic nervous system in real time.The real treatment is still things like breathing, muscle relaxation, visualization, meditation, and
Concussion: What's Actually Happening and How To Completely Recover.
Episode 5 — Concussion: What’s Actually Happening and How to Fully RecoverIn this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Pete Schultz, Doctor of Physical Therapy, breaks down what a concussion really is — and just as importantly, what it is not.Concussions are common in sports and everyday life — car accidents, falls, hitting your head, or even sudden force to the body. Ye
Vertigo or Dizziness? Understanding BPPV and How To Fix It.
Have you ever rolled over in bed, looked up, or laid down — and suddenly the entire room started spinning?In this episode of What’s in Your Head: Tools for Pain & Dizziness, Dr. Pete Schultz, Doctor of Physical Therapy, breaks down one of the most common — and most misunderstood — causes of vertigo: BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo).BPPV can feel intense and alarming, often sending p
Understanding The Different Types of Headache
In this episode of What’s in Your Head, we take a deep dive into the different types of headaches — and why understanding them matters.While many people think “a headache is just a headache,” different headache types reflect different patterns in the nervous system. Migraine, tension-type headaches, cervicogenic headaches, post-traumatic headaches, neuralgia, and new daily persistent headaches all
How the Autonomic Nervous System Drives Pain and Dizziness
Episode 2 — How the Autonomic Nervous System Drives Pain and Dizzinesshttps://www.dynamicsportspt.com/ follow link to schedule an appointment for physical therapy.https://painanddizzy.com/ follow link for more information on pain and dizziness. Episode 2 — How the Autonomic Nervous System Drives Pain and DizzinessIn this episode of What’s in Your Head?, Dr. Pete Schultz explains how the autonomic
Why Pain Persists
https://www.dynamicsportspt.com/ To schedule a physical therapy appointmenthttps://painanddizzy.com/ To learn more information on Pain and dizziness or email painanddizzy@gmail.comWhy Pain PersistsIn the first episode of What’s In Your Head, Pete Schultz, PT, DPT, introduces a new way to understand pain — one that goes beyond tissues, scans, and diagnoses.Pain is real. But it’s not always a sign
Welcome to The What's In Your Head: Tools for Pain and Dizziness Podcast Trailer
https://painanddizzy.com/ To learn more information on Pain and Dizziness or email painanddizzy@gmail.comhttps://www.dynamicsportspt.com/ To schedule a physical therapy appointment Have you ever struggled with pain, dizziness, or headaches that "look normal" on medical tests but still feel debilitating? Many individuals suffer from symptoms that persist long after they should have r
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