Episode Details

Dr. Jason Wersland is a chiropractor, athlete, and the founder & inventor of the TheraGun, a revolutionary neuromuscular percussive therapy device...or in laymen’s terms, the most badass massage power tool you’ve ever seen. Whether you’re a professional athlete, a ‘Weekend Warrior’ running Spartan Races or training for American Ninja Warrior like me, or if you’re simply someone who lives behind a computer all day long and battles chronic discomfort, aches, and pains, I say this with zero hyperbole...the TheraGun is a GAME. CHANGER. Within minutes it literally melts knots, tension, and pain away. It’s like the cheapest, fastest, and best massage you’ve ever had. After suffering a motorcycle accident that caused a disc herniation that resulted in intense pain (and eventually atrophy), “Dr. J” recognized an extraordinary need for an effective portable treatment device for patients to use as needed. So he basically decided to build one himself. The TheraGun began as a do-it-yourself pieced together device from whatever Dr. J could find in his garage to what is now the world leader in percussive therapy. And since the introduction of this device there have been countless other companies trying to copy or improve the TheraGun...but given Dr. J’s intense attention to detail, there’s still no device quite like it. In this interview Dr. J and I discuss his “origin story” and what led him to build this device on his own, how he developed and perfected it to become the device it is today, and more importantly how anyone can use it on a daily basis to overcome muscle soreness, tightness, fatigue, and chronic aches & pains.

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Here's What You'll Learn:

• How a motorcycle accident led Jason to invent his own tools for physical therapy
• Paying attention to the information your body is telling you about your habits
• Reaching as many people as possible with new potential for pain reflief
• How the TheraGun works on a neurological and muscular level
• Why it makes more sense to choose value over cost (the cheaper guys out there)
• Why vibration is so critical for muscle pain relief
• How solving problems for yourself also provides solutions for others
• Jason's experience treating "Danger Ehren" from Jackass
• The gently intuitive design of the TheraGun that helps you use it effectively

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