Lifestyle Medicine Meets OMPT: A Conversation with Mark Shepherd

Mark Shepherd joins the podcast to discuss person-centered clinical reasoning, lifestyle medicine, and how to improve the way PTs make sense of pain. Mark is Program Director of the Bellin College OMPT Fellowship, a DPT faculty member, and a clinician who blends manual therapy, patient values, and lifestyle-based interventions to build clearer clinical hypotheses. His recent publication introduces an updated reasoning model: the person-centered hypothesis, which emphasizes individualized sense-making over rigid diagnostic categories. In this episode: • What “person-centered hypothesis” means in practice • How lifestyle medicine empowers rather than dilutes OMPT care • Improving reasoning in complex pain cases • Why clinicians should anchor decisions in patient values • Mark’s journey through education, teaching, and fellowship leadership A must-listen for clinicians and educators who want a more modern, human approach to reasoning.

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Lifestyle Medicine Meets OMPT: A Conversation with Mark Shepherd is an episode from AAOMPT Podcast by American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists.

This episode is 0:16:10 long.

This episode was published on Feb 3, 2026.

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