In this episode, Anne talks to Dr. Brian Shiple, a recognized leader in the fields of interventional and integrative orthopedic medicine, regenerative injection treatment (RIT), sports medicine, and diagnostic ultrasound. He has been in private practice since 2006 after completing thirteen years as the division chief of Sports Medicine and founder and director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship program at Crozer-Keystone Health System in the Greater Philadelphia area.

He tells Anne about his background, how he got into medicine, where he learned about Prolotherapy, and how he used it to help not only himself but thousands of patients as well.

We learn about his first time being a medical officer at the Pennsylvania State Games, where he then went on to be the Chief Medical Officer from 1994-2006 and why he nearly had to quit medicine and go onto disability, and he gives some great tips to people wanting to live their best, healthiest life.

Here’s a glance at what we discuss in this episode:

• 01:10 - Anne introduces Dr. Brian Shiple and tells us a little about him and the many things that he does and has accomplished. 
• 06:00 - Dr. Shiple tells us a bit about his background, his childhood, and how he was an engineering major in college for 2 years, and how he took 2 years off to study acting in New York.
• 08:00 - Dr. Shiple tells us how a tragic accident in the family led him to his career in medicine. 
• 09:20 - Dr. Shiple goes into more detail about how he ended up going to acting school in New York and how the dream of becoming an actor came to an end and how it taught him some skill that he now uses in medicine.
• 12:10 - His experiences at the NYIT College Of Osteopathic Medicine and how he ended up in Philadelphia to do his intern residency and, where he met his wife.
• 13:00 - How he did not do Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (even though he was voted “most likely to be a successful PM&R doctor”!), and how he found his way into Sports Medicine.
• 14:30 - Dr. Shiple tells us how he has loved and moonlighted in ER medicine for 20 years.
• 15:10 - We learn about how Dr. Shiple got involved in the Pennsylvania State Games and how his ER skills transferred over to help the athletes in his care.
• 16:30 - How a talk at a Sports Medicine conference piqued his interest in Prolotherapy as an alternative way to treat his patients that weren’t responding to the standard care that was taught in Sports Medicine.
• 18:40 - How Dr. Shiple learned to use Prolotherapy to treat his many patients suffering from tennis elbow.
• 21:15 - How he used Prolotherapy to heal himself after multiple car crashes.
• 22:00 - Anne asks Dr. Shiple about his injuries that caused him to seek Prolotherapy to heal his body and he explains that without it, he would have had to quit medicine and go on disability.
• 24:00 - We learn how Dr. Shiple worked to get Prolotherapy for his employees, making it the first Regenerative Therapy that was covered by insurance at the time.
• 25:30 - The “turf wars” between Radiology, Surgery, and non-operative Sports Medicine that made it difficult to get an x-ray and ultrasound in his practice.
• 26:30 - Why he left academia and went out on his own.
• 29:25 - How Dr. Shiple learned about PRP and started doing his own ultrasound in his practice.
• 33:33 - We get some recommendations for people to see and questions to ask regarding PRP and regenerative medicine.
• 35:55 - Anne asks Dr. Shiple what advice he would give to listeners that are wanting to live their best life.

Links & Resources

Anne’s website

Dr. Shiple’s website

Youtube

Dr. Shiple’s book:

Regenerative Healing for Life