Amy Devaney is a physical therapist and sports medicine specialist based in Natick, Massachusetts. She's been a PT for over 15 years — starting at Mass General Sports Medicine, then Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and now running her own practice focused on runners and athletes. She got into the field the way a lot of great careers start: with a well-timed accident. A knee injury from skiing on senior skip day her senior year of high school changed her college trajectory, introduced her to physical therapy, and set her on the path she's been on ever since.

In this episode, Amy and the guys get into what it's actually like to build your own PT practice, why she chose to niche down to runners even when it felt risky, what 15 years in sports medicine has taught her about the neuroscience of pain (and why chronic pain is often a brain problem, not j ...