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174. ACJ - The hidden culprit behind stubborn shoulder pain? Physio Edge Shoulder Success podcast with Jo Gibson04 Sep 202500:17:14

Have any of your shoulder patients improved and then plateaued, unable to regain their full range of movement, or get rid of their painful arc?

Sometimes it's not the cuff, capsule, nerves or neck—it's the acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) holding things back.

In this episode, Jo Gibson sheds light on this often-overlooked contributor to persistent shoulder pain.

From real patient case studies to the latest research and simple clinic-ready symptom modification tests, Jo shares practical strategies you can use immediately.

Learn how to identify ACJ involvement, and use targeted rehab exercises, symptom modification and treatment strategies to help patients break through their plateau and regain their confidence and range.

Chapters:

  • 00:00 - Intro

  • 02:59 - Case study: Patient with shoulder pain

  • 03:29 - Recent research around the ACJ

  • 06:37 - Psychosocial or biomedical factors influencing the ACJ and shoulder pain

  • 06:53 - Role of the ACJ

  • 07:06 - Pain and movement patterns indicating ACJ involvement

  • 08:34 - Protective movement strategies that may affect the ACJ

  • 09:18 - Symptom modification tests

  • 10:08 - Exercises for the ACJ

  • 12:43 - Manual therapy for a stiff ACJ?

  • 15:40 - Summary: When to look at the ACJ

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Shoulder: Steps to Success online course with Jo Gibson

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173. Hip flexor pain in runners: Diagnosis, myths, and rehab. Physio Edge Track record: Running repairs podcast with Tom Goom06 Aug 202500:19:46

Anterior hip pain is often blamed on the hip flexors, but in runners, that's rarely the diagnosis. So how can you identify the real cause and guide patients to a safe, effective recovery?

In this episode, Tom Goom (Running Physio) explores the function of the hip flexors in running, key differentials for anterior hip or groin pain, and practical rehab strategies you can use right away.

You'll discover:

  • Why true hip flexor tendinopathy is uncommon in endurance runners
  • Red flags and key tests to identify bone stress fractures and intra‑articular pathology
  • Early‑stage loading strategies that protect the tendon from aggravation
  • The role of the adductors, trunk, and synergistic muscles in successful rehab
  • Common myths and misconceptions around hip flexors
  • How to progress rehab to sport‑specific drills and return to running

If you're a physiotherapist or health professional treating runners, this episode gives you research‑backed, clinically reasoned strategies to assess and manage hip flexor pain with confidence.

Timestamps:

  • 00:00 - Intro
  • 03:35 - Hip flexor function
  • 06:56 - Tip 1 - Is it a hip flexor tendinopathy?
  • 09:48 - Tip 2 - Rehab of hip flexors
  • 11:35 - Tip 3 - Other muscle groups to include in rehab
  • 13:08 - Common misconceptions
  • 13:37 - 1. Pronation
  • 14:49 - 2. Firing order
  • 16:13 - 3. Weak transversus abdominis
  • 17:12 - 4. Rib alignment and breathing patterns

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164. Case study: Rotator cuff tear + arm symptoms. Physio Edge Shoulder Success podcast with Jo Gibson18 Jul 202400:14:51

Upper Limb Rehabilitation Specialist Jo Gibson explores an intriguing case of an 84-year-old man with a massive rotator cuff tear of the supraspinatus and partial subscapularis tear. Despite his long history of shoulder issues, he's improving, but constant pain and intermittent numbness in his posterior arm and into his hand complicate the situation.

In this podcast, you'll explore:

  • What a massive rotator cuff tear (MRCT) is
  • Common pain patterns with rotator cuff tears
  • Why the Suprascapular nerve can be affected in MRCT's
  • How to set realistic expectations with patients about their recovery
  • Common causes of pain into the posterior arm, wrist and hand
  • How to differentially diagnose shoulder, arm and hand pain 
  • Assessment tests to identify and exclude cervical involvement
  • When nerve conduction tests or EMG should be performed 
  • Rehabilitation ideas for this patient

Listen to this podcast now to improve your rehabilitation of shoulder & arm pain and rotator cuff tears.

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Free video series "Frozen shoulder assessment & treatment" with Jo Gibson

Improve your frozen shoulder assessment and treatment now with Jo Gibson's free video series at clinicaledge.co/shoulder

Shoulder: Steps to Success online course with Jo Gibson

Improve your assessment and treatment of shoulder pain with the Shoulder: Steps to Success online course with Jo Gibson, now available for enrolment at clinicaledge.co/shouldersuccess

Free trial Clinical Edge membership

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074. Hip pain and femoroacetabular impingement FAI with Dr Joanne Kemp24 Nov 201700:59:26

Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) may contribute to hip and groin pain, buttock pain, pelvic or low back pain and referred pain into the thigh. Is conservative management effective in patients with FAI, or is surgery required? If we can treat FAI conservatively, what is the best treatment, and how can you tailor your treatment to your individual patients?

In episode 74 of the Physio Edge podcast with Dr Joanne Kemp you will discover:

  • What is FAI, and how can you identify it?
  • Common clinical presentations
  • Key subjective questions to ask
  • Types of FAI morphology and how they are identified
  • Is FAI just a normal finding?
  • How you can perform an objective assessment in patients with FAI
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Components you need to include in your conservative treatment for FAI
  • Which objective markers to use when treating FAI
  • How to address common impairments in your rehabilitation, including strength, functional tasks, cardiovascular training and range of movement
  • When to refer for a surgical opinion
  • Outcomes of surgical treatment
  • Future risk of developing OA in presence of FAI

Sports Injuries virtual conference presentation

As mentioned in this episode Joanne will be part of the Sports Injury virtual conference. Her pre conference presentation will discuss FAI and the diagnostic process in more detail. Her subsequent conference presentation will be available on 9-10 December 2017, with access for up to 12 months following the conference, and will discuss:

  • Conservative management of FAI
  • Specific exercise progressions you can use
  • Return to sport for athletes

Enrol on the 2017 Sports Injuries virtual conference by CLICKING HERE

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073. Neck pain rehabilitation and strengthening with Kay Robinson10 Nov 201700:49:34

Strengthening is not commonly used in neck pain treatment and rehabilitation, however athletes may place large demands on their neck during training and play that require a high level of strength or endurance.

When should you include strength training in your rehabilitation? What patients will benefit from strength training? How can you incorporate strengthening into your treatment?

In episode 73 of the Physio Edge podcast, we explore the role of neck strengthening with Kay Robinson, Physiotherapist working with Australian sailing, and previously with the British Olympic Skeleton team.

In the podcast you will discover:

  • Objective assessment of patients with neck pain
  • Range of movement and strength tests you can use with your neck pain patients
  • How to assess neck strength in your patients
  • Indications for strength training
  • Is strength training suitable in the early stages of neck pain rehabilitation?
  • Early-stage cervical spine rehabilitation exercises you can use
  • Exercise progressions to improve neck strength
  • Neck strengthening in concussion
  • Is neck strength training suitable for whiplash patients?
  • Aspects incorporated into a typical neck strengthening program

Kay Robinson will also be presenting at the 2017 Sports Injury virtual conference. Her conference presentation on neck strengthening will discuss:

  • How to incorporate neck training into rehabilitation post injury
  • Neck strengthening for injury prevention
  • How to make exercise patient or sport specific
  • Other consideration with neck training
  • Case studies
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072. Accelerated hamstring injury rehabilitation exercise selection and progressions with Jack Hickey03 Nov 201701:16:50

Injured athletes like to recover and return to play as quickly as possible, and we need to balance return to play against impaired strength, performance and risk of reinjury. Initial injury rehabilitation often commences with isometric exercises, progressing into concentric/eccentric style exercises when isometric tests are pain-free. Finally high load eccentric exercises such as the Nordic hamstring are introduced for their positive effects of increased strength, fascicle length and reduced injury risk.

High level and eccentric exercises are often avoided in the early stages of rehab, for fear of aggravating the injury. What if we could commence higher-level and eccentric exercises safely at an earlier stage? Would this impair or accelerate your patients' recovery?

In this podcast with Jack Hickey, currently completing a PhD with the QUT/ACU hamstring injury research group, we explore an accelerated hamstring injury rehabilitation program, and how this can be implemented with your patients. You will discover:

  • The limitations of traditional rehabilitation
  • What is the evidence for only using isometric exercises in the early stages of rehab
  • Why eccentric exercises are commonly thought of as too high a load for initial rehab
  • More modern rehabilitation programs for hamstring strain injuries, including the Askling (2013), Aspetar (2017) and Mendiguchia (2017) programs
  • An accelerated rehab program, introducing higher-level and eccentric exercises at an early stage
  • When you can start your patient's rehabilitation
  • Which exercises you can use with your hamstring injury patients
  • How to know when to progress your patient's exercises
  • How often high-level exercises need to be performed
  • When your patients can return to running
  • How to progress your patients through a return to running program
  • When your patients are suitable for return to sport

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071. Hamstring strengthening, lengthening and injury prevention with Dr David Opar27 Oct 201700:58:17

Hamstring injuries are the most common injury in football and AFL, and we can help our patients strengthen their hamstrings while significantly reducing their risk of injury with the right exercise program. What are the best exercises to use to strengthen and lengthen the hamstrings, and to prevent hamstring injury?

In this Physio Edge podcast with Dr David Opar, we discuss hamstring injury prevention, which athletes will benefit, which exercises to use, the most important aspects of each exercise and how to incorporate these with your athletes. You will discover:

  • What does the latest research around hamstring exercises and injury reveal?
  • Which players are most at risk of hamstring injury?
  • How can we prevent hamstring injuries?
  • How does hamstring muscle architecture adapt to training, and how does this relate to your exercise selection or prescription?
  • How can we increase hamstring muscle fascicle length?
  • How can we tailor our patients hamstring program based on whether they are preseason, in-season, uninjured or previously injured?
  • Which exercises are important in hamstring rehabilitation and prehabilitation?
  • How can you start and progress a hamstring injury prevention program?
  • How quickly do patients lose their hamstring gains, and how much maintenance do they need to perform?
  • What happens to hamstring muscle strength and flexibility following injury?
  • What neuromuscular inhibition happens following hamstring injuries, and how can we address this in our rehab?

There has been a lot of great research performed recently on hamstring injuries, and to share this and help you with your hamstring injury patients, we have invited Dr David Opar to present at the upcoming Sports Injuries virtual conference in December 2017. You can access six free preconference sports injury presentations by CLICKING HERE.

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070. How to treat adductor related groin pain and complex cases with Dr Adam Weir19 Oct 201701:04:27

Athletes with groin pain will commonly play with pain until the end of the season, and rest during the off-season in the hopes this will aid in their recovery. Unfortunately this offseason rest period rarely results in recovery, and athletes head into the preseason with long-standing groin pain and an extended recovery period.

In this episode of the Physio Edge podcast with Dr Adam Weir , you will discover how to treat adductor related groin pain (ARGP) and complex patient presentations with multiple areas of pathology or pain.

This podcast follows on from the Physio Edge podcast episode 69, where Dr Adam Weir and I discussed in detail how to assess and diagnose adductor related groin pain, identify or exclude differential diagnosis including stress fractures, hip joint involvement, inguinal related groin pain and nerve entrapment.

You will explore:

  • Treatment of acute adductor strains
  • Long term adductor related groin pain (ARGP)
  • Is rest during the off season helpful or harmful for groin pain
  • What pain level is ok during rehab exercises
  • How can you describe ARGP to decrease patient fear
  • Is ARGP a tendinopathy or different pathology?
  • How to answer your patients when they ask how long until they can return to training (RTT) or return to play (RTP)?
  • What is and how can you incorporate the Copenhagen Adductor exercise?
  • Is there a role for passive treatment?
  • Is hand held dynamometry useful during recovery?
  • Treatment for adductor related groin pain (ARGP)
  • Starting treatment
  • Exercise progressions
  • What criteria can you utilise for treatment progressions?
  • What criteria can you use prior to allowing your patients to return to running, change of direction and RTP
  • How to progress running and change of direction training
  • Adductor to abductor strength ratios your athletes can achieve prior to RTP

Complex presentations

  • How can you make a diagnosis and tailor your rehab when a patient has multiple areas of pain and positive tests eg ARGP plus Psoas related groin pain or Inguinal related groin pain?
  • How your treatment program may evolve as your patient progresses through their rehab

Dr Adam Weir will be presenting at the upcoming Sports Injuries virtual conference on the assessment and treatment of Inguinal related groin pain. You can access his free preconference presentation, along with other free sports injury assessment and treatment videos AT THIS LINK

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069. Adductor related groin pain stress fractures and nerve entrapment assessment diagnosis with Dr Adam Weir13 Oct 201701:09:31

Adductor related groin pain is the most common diagnosis for athletes with groin pain. In this episode of the Physio Edge podcast you will discover how to assess and diagnose adductor related groin pain, identify or exclude differential diagnosis including stress fractures, hip joint involvement, inguinal related groin pain and nerve entrapment.

Dr Adam Weir is a Sports Physician with a PhD on groin pain, the lead author for the Doha agreement meeting on terminology and definitions in groin pain in athletes, who currently shares his time between the Aspetar sports groin pain centre and the Erasmus University Hospital Academic Centre for Groin Injuries in Holland. Adam will take you through exactly how to perform an assessment around the hip and groin, how to interpret your findings and how to explain your diagnosis to your patients. You will explore:

  • The common presentation and symptoms of someone with adductor related groin pain
  • Structures that are commonly involved
  • Aggravating and easing activities
  • Area of pain, and new research highlighting unexpected pain referral areas from the adductor tendons
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Bone stress injuries around the hip and pubic bone
  • Genitofemoral nerve entrapments - symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
  • Red flags
  • Acute versus chronic presentations
  • Adductor related versus pubic related groin pain
  • How to perform an assessment, including screening tests
  • Tests you need to incorporate into your assessment
  • Identifying and diagnosing all the structures contributing to a patient's symptoms
  • What is the value of imaging and when should it be performed?

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068. Lower limb tendinopathy loading, running and rehab with Dr Peter Malliaras06 Oct 201701:23:42

There are a range of tendinopathy presentations, from easily diagnosed with a local area of pain and clear pain response to tissue overload; through to patients with trickier presentations and multiple contributors to pain e.g. long term proximal hamstring or gluteal tendinopathy with a lumbar spine radiculopathy.

How can you diagnose and treat patients with complex tendinopathy presentations? How does the latest research around tendinopathy help us? I explore these issues and more with Dr Peter Malliaras in episode 68 of the Physio Edge podcast. We also explore:

  • Do tendinopathy patients always present with a small area of pain, or can they have pain in larger, more diffuse areas?
  • How will you identify tendinopathy or other structures that may be contributing to your patients symptoms?
  • Clues in your patients' history to help you identify and differentiate tendinopathies, lumbar and SIJ referral
  • Symptoms and how your treatment will differ in patients with paratenon and fat pad involvement
  • How can you measure your patients load tolerance?
  • What categories of tendinopathy patients can you use to help differentiate your treatment?
  • How can you rehabilitate patients with tendinopathy?
  • What role does biomechanics have?
  • What advice can you provide to your patients about load management, symptoms and flareups?
  • When is it ok for your patients to continue or return to running?
  • What strength tests should your patients be able to complete before returning to running?
  • If your patients are not tolerating running, which aspects should you modify first - frequency, intensity, type or duration?
  • When are isometrics useful in your treatment?
  • When can you start isotonic and plyometric exercises?
  • How can you incorporate tendon neuroplastic training (TNT)?

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067. Shoulder special tests and the rotator cuff with Dr Chris Littlewood18 Aug 201701:10:00

Shoulder pain can involve the rotator cuff, scapula, cervical spine, thorax, and other structures in this area. Recent research has also explored the role of patient beliefs and expectations on the outcomes of Physiotherapy for shoulder pain. Which factors are important in your shoulder pain patients? Can we identify the contributing factors to your patients shoulder pain? What information will you get from orthopaedic special tests during a shoulder examination? How can you improve your treatment results with your patient education?

In this episode of the Physio Edge podcast, Dr Chris Littlewood and David Pope discuss shoulder pain, including:

  • Classification of shoulder pathology
  • How to identify painful vs stiff vs unstable shoulder pain vs cervical spine referred pain
  • Questions to ask in your subjective assessment
  • Does subacromial impingement exist, and how does a diagnosis of subacromial impingement effect outcomes
  • Patient expectations of treatment outcomes
  • How to perform an objective assessment
  • What information special tests provide
  • Is scapular dyskinesis pathological or normal movement variation
  • Are painful or non-painful exercises most helipful in chronic shoulder pain
  • What role does imaging have in shoulder pain

This podcast adds to Physio Edge podcast 47 - Rotator cuff tendinopathy with Dr Chris Littlewood .

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066. How to treat calf pain in runners with Tom Goom23 Jun 201700:21:44

Experiencing increasing calf pain with running can be an incredibly frustrating experience for your running patients, especially when it is severely limiting or stopping them from being able to run. You can have a lot of success in helping your runners overcome running related calf pain, and in episode 66 of the Physio Edge podcast, we give you practical strategies and exercises you can use in your treatment.

Tom Goom and David Pope helped you explain the causes of calf pain to your running patients, differential diagnosis and red flags, and what you need to assess in episode 64 and episode 65, and in Episode 66 you will explore:

  • How to strengthen the calf complex
  • Strengthening for local ankle and foot muscles
  • Benefits and how to incorporate strengthening for the kinetic chain
  • Incorporating neural mobility into your treatment
  • Adjusting and progressing training loads
  • The role of gait retraining in the treatment of calf pain

Free running injury assessment & treatment video series available now

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065. Differential diagnosis of calf pain in runners with Tom Goom15 Jun 201700:40:35

When your patients present with calf pain, do you have a clear understanding of the likely causes and potential differential diagnosis? Do they have any red flags that require urgent medical attention? What other issues besides a calf tear could be causing their calf pain?

It's time to brush off those diagnostic skills, to understand the types of calf pain you can treat, and which patients you need to refer on immediately.

In this podcast with Tom Goom and David Pope, we are going to break it down for you, so you are confident in assessing and diagnosing the different types of calf pain. You will understand:

  • How to identify calf muscle pathology or tears
  • When symptoms are due to neural irritation or pathology
  • Different types of vascular pathology, including popliteal artery entrapment
  • Red flags such as deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
  • What information imaging can provide

 

Free running injury assessment & treatment video series available now

 

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163. ACL treatment options and cross-bracing with Clare Walsh17 Apr 202401:07:42

ACL injuries result in significant time away from sport and distress for patients. The variety of management options, from surgical intervention to non-surgical management and rehabilitation protocols, often makes us uncertain when educating and helping patients choose the most appropriate care for their needs and goals.

Recently, a new non-operative ACL injury management pathway called the "Cross bracing protocol" has been pioneered and developed by Dr Tom Cross and Tom's father (the late Orthopaedic surgeon) Dr Merv Cross. This protocol offers a promising alternative for patients with ACL injuries who are suitable for non-surgical intervention, where the ACL injury may heal or repair itself.

Not all patients with an ACL injury are suitable for the Cross bracing protocol or non-surgical management, so how can you identify whether your patient is suitable, and which treatment options are best for each patient?

In this insightful podcast episode, we discuss the complex challenge of ACL injury management and Cross bracing with Clare Walsh (Specialist Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist, FACP).

Clare treats a lot of patients with ACL injuries with prehabilitation, post-op rehabilitation, or non-surgical management including Cross bracing. Clare works alongside Dr Tom Cross and other Sports Medicine Doctors, Orthopaedic surgeons (including the late Dr Merv Cross) and leading Sports Physiotherapists at Stadium Sports Physiotherapy and The Stadium Clinic.

Clare teaches on the Cross bracing course conducted in Australia for Physiotherapists and health professionals, and is a Senior Educator & Presenter here at Clinical Edge.

In this podcast we explore:

  • Cross bracing
    • What it is and how it developed.
    • What research has been performed to date, and what it shows about the chances of ACL healing with the Cross bracing protocol.
    • Assessment tests & specific imaging that are used to assess patient suitability.
    • Why patients might opt for Cross bracing rather than surgery.
    • Who isn't suitable for Cross bracing.
    • Potential negative outcomes of Cross bracing.
    • Which patients are more likely to be suitable and successful with Cross bracing - eg. injury type, age, level of sport, goals, psychosocial factors.
    • Medical factors that impact suitability.
    • Psychosocial factors that impact whether a patient can undergo the protocol.
    • Which leg (right or left) is better suited to bracing and why.
    • Which type of braces are commonly used.
    • How soon the protocol needs to commence after injury to be successful.
    • Which concomitant injuries can still heal in a brace and which need surgery e.g. meniscus injuries, bucket handle tears of the meniscus, MCL tears.
    • How long patients remain in a brace.
    • Exercises and activities that can and should be performed throughout Cross bracing.
    • How patients can move or walk around throughout the Cross bracing period.
    • How Cross bracing has changed and evolved.
    • Whether the ACL is at increased risk of re-rupture following the protocol.
    • Essential medical management during the protocol.
    • Whether therapists can put a patient in a brace, or manage the protocol independently.
    • What to you do if you think a patient may be suitable for Cross bracing.
    • How to refer patients for Cross bracing
    • Followup imaging at the end of the protocol.
    • Functional assessment tests used at the end of the protocol.
    • Return to training (RTT) and return to play (RTP) following the protocol.
  • Which patients require surgery instead of conservative management.
  • Early surgery vs delayed surgery.
  • Spontaneous ACL healing - what the research says.
  • How to use patient-centred decision-making to guide patients into the most suitable recovery pathway - surgery, bracing or non-surgical management.
  • Case studies and comparisons of patients that underwent either Cross bracing or ACL reconstruction.

This podcast is packed full of great information on this emerging ACL injury treatment. You'll finish this podcast with a deeper understanding of ACL injury management and Cross bracing plus practical knowledge, solutions and insights you can apply into your practice.

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064. What is causing calf pain in runners and how can you assess it with Tom Goom09 Jun 201700:28:56

One of the most popular blogposts of all time on Tom Goom's website running-physio.com is on how to manage calf tears in runners. Is this because it is a really common problem, or because Tom wrote such a great blogpost? It's a bit hard to tell, and most likely it's a bit of both, but it begs the question "Why is calf pain one of the issues so many runners face? "

In episode 64 of the Physio Edge podcast, David Pope and Tom Goom discuss the latest research around calf pain in runners and what is actually going on. We want to give you all the tools you need to assess runners that present with calf pain, so we have included this in the episode as well.

If you would like to up your game on calf pain, here are some of the highlights from the podcast:

  • What is responsible for calf pain in runners?
  • What are the common symptoms?
  • What will imaging show (or not show)?
  • What happened to chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS)? Does it still exist?
  • What is biomechanical overload syndrome, and how is it different to CECS?
  • Who are the most likely culprits to experience calf pain?
  • How can you assess runners with calf pain?
  • What tests should you perform?
  • How can you perform a calf capacity test?

 

Free running injury assessment & treatment video series available now

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063. How to assess and treat posterior hip and gluteal pain with Benoy Mathew31 May 201700:46:28

Posterior hip pain can have a number of causes, with referral from the lumbar spine, SIJ and hip, along with local structures such as the hip joint, gluteals, glute tendons, proximal hamstring tendons. How can you identify the structures involved in your patient's posterior hip pain? What tests can you perform in your objective assessment to assist your treatment? What is the best way to treat the glutes if they are the involved in your patient's pain?

In episode 63 of the Physio Edge podcast, Benoy Mathew and David Pope explore how you can improve your diagnosis and results with posterior hip pain.

You will discover:

  • What are some of the common causes of posterior hip pain?
  • Gluteal tendinopathy (GT)
    • What area of symptoms will patients with GT report?
    • What are the pattern of symptoms for GT?
    • What tests can we perform to make GT more or less likely
    • How can we treat GT?
  • Deep gluteal syndrome (DGS)
    • What is deep gluteal syndrome?
    • What muscles can be involved in DGS?
    • How can we differentiate it from Gluteal tendinopathy?
    • What tests can you perform to confirm or exclude DGS?
    • How does the treatment for DGS differ to GT?

Benoy is presenting a free webinar with Clinical Edge on "How to assess & diagnose posterior hip and gluteal pain", that complements this podcast, and takes you through the common sources of hip pain, how to identify hip and lumbar spine red flags, and demonstrates exactly how you can perform an assessment to test and differentially diagnose the structures involved in your patients pain.

CLICK HERE to enrol on this free webinar with Benoy Mathew

Ben also presented a webinar with Clinical Edge on how to rehabilitate adductor and psoas related groin pain. The webinar helps you discover:

  • Rehabilitation of adductor and psoas related groin pain
  • Practical tips
  • Common presentations
  • Osteitis pubis, sports hernia, hip impingement
  • Rehabilitation from initial stages to plyometrics

CLICK HERE to watch the webinar "Rehab of adductor and iliopsoas related groin pain" with Benoy Mathew with a free trial Clinical Edge membership

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  1. Franklyn-Miller et al (2009)- The Gluteal Triangle: a clinical patho-anatomical approach to the diagnosis of gluteal pain in athletes , BJSM. Open Access Link
  2. Grimaldi & Fearon (2015)- Gluteal Tendinopathy: Integrating Pathomechanics and Clinical Features in Management, JOSPT. Open Access Link
  3. Hernando et al (2016)- Evaluation and management of ischio-femoral impingement: a pathophysiologc, radiolgic and therapeutic approach to a complex diagnosis, Skeletal Radiol
  4. Martin et al (2016)- Deep Gluteal Syndrome, JHPS, Open Access Link
  5. Martin et al (2016)- Ishiofemoral Impingement and Hamstrings Syndrome, Distal Causes of Deep Gluteal Syndrome. Where do we go next? Clin Sports Med. Open Access Link
  6. Michel et al (2013)- Piriformis muscle syndrome: Diagnostic criteria and treatment of a mono centricseries of 250 patients, Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
  7. The Copenhagen Hip and Groin Outcome Score (HAGOS): development and validation according to the COSMIN checklist
  8. Physical Examination of the Hip by Dr. Hal D. Martin
062. How to treat plantar fasciopathy in runners with Tom Goom24 May 201700:41:29

How can you treat plantar fasciopathy? How can you return your plantar fasciopathy patients to activity and running? When can they run without aggravating their pain?

In episode 62 of the Physio Edge podcast, Tom Goom and David Pope help you discover exactly how you can get great treatment outcomes with plantar fasciopathy.

You will discover:

  • How can you treat plantar fasciopathy (PF)?
  • How can you help reduce plantar fascia pain during the "pain-dominant" phase?
  • How can you improve load capacity during the "load-dominant" phase?
  • When do your patients need relative rest?
  • What cross training options are suitable for runners with PF?
  • When and how can you incorporate strengthening into your treatment?
  • What other impairments should you address in your treatment?
  • How do you adapt strengthening if your patients pain is irritable vs non-irritable
  • Is stretching helpful?
  • Should you include other treatment, eg taping, orthotics, gel heel cup
  • When can your patients return to running?
  • How long is the average recovery from PF?
  • A PF case study with exercise progressions and return to running.

This podcast follows on from Physio Edge 060 Plantar fasciopathy in runners with Tom Goom and Physio Edge 061 How to assess & diagnose plantar fasciopathy in runners with Tom Goom

Free running injury assessment & treatment video series available now

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Research associated with this episode

061. How to assess & diagnose plantar fasciopathy in runners with Tom Goom17 May 201700:41:12

Assessment and diagnosis is vital in planning your plantar fasciopathy treatment program, and successfully returning your patients to activity and running. Structures in the vicinity of the plantar fascia insertion may contribute to plantar heel pain, but require a very different treatment approach. How can you identify other structures that are involved? What questions do you need to ask in the history? How can you perform an examination, and what tests should you perform on patients with plantar fasciopathy?

In episode 61 of the Physio Edge podcast, Tom Goom and David Pope help you discover exactly how you can assess and differentially diagnose plantar fasciopathy.

You will discover:

  • Plantar fasciopathy clinical presentation
  • How to identify fat pad irritation
  • Patterns of calcaneal and navicular bony stress injuries
  • How you can identify nerve entrapment and radiculopathy
  • Red flags such as spondyloarthropathy
  • Questions to ask in your subjective that will guide your diagnosis and treatment
  • How to perform an objective assessment
  • Tests you need to perform
  • Identifying impairments to address during rehabilitation
  • When you should perform a running assessment

This podcast follows on from Physio Edge 060 Plantar fasciopathy in runners with Tom Goom

Free running injury assessment & treatment video series available now

 

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Research associated with this episode

060. Plantar fasciopathy in runners with Tom Goom09 May 201700:34:59

Plantar fasciopathy is one of the most common causes of foot pain in runners and non-athletes alike. Our understanding of plantar fasciopathy (PF) pathology and treatment has progressed significantly over recent years. In episode 60 of the Physio Edge podcast, Tom Goom and David Pope explore PF, what we know about it, and how you can explain the condition, treatment and recovery process to your patients.

You will discover:

  • What we know about plantar fasciopathy
  • What pathology is present
  • When is imaging indicated, and what information does it provide
  • Which forms of imaging are the most useful
  • What are the risk factors for developing PF
  • Which aspects of running may be related or contribute to developing PF?
  • How can you explain PF the condition, treatment and recovery process to your patients

 

Free running injury assessment & treatment video series available now

Links of Interest

Research associated with this episode

059. Running Injuries - What are the most important factors? A group discussion with Tom Goom, Greg Lehman & Dr Christian Barton06 May 201701:41:42

How can you identify the most important factors involved in your patients running injuries? During your rehabilitation of runners, which is most important to address - load, gait pattern, strength, foot strike, pelvic position, footwear, range of movement or other factors?

I wanted to discuss and debate these issues with a number of Physiotherapists that treat and research running injuries, so I have a very different format for you on this episode of the Physio Edge podcast - a group podcast.

On this podcast, we have Tom GoomGreg Lehman and Dr Christian Barton all in one virtual room discussing and debating the merits of the various approaches to running injuries.

In this episode of the Physio Edge podcast David Pope and the group discuss:

  • When is it ok for your runners to continue running, and when do they need to stop
  • Common myths around running retraining
  • When is it important to change your patients foot strike?
  • Which patient presentations and pathologies will be assisted with running retraining?
  • How can you identify a suitable running load during rehab
  • How can you incorporate running retraining into your rehab
  • Which areas are important to running assessment
  • How can you manage training load strength and conditioning
  • When are plyometrics appropriate during rehabilitation
  • Other factors that impact injury prognosis and duration
  • What advice can you give new runners
  • Which footwear should runners wear?

Free running injury assessment & treatment video series available now

Links of Interest

Tom Goom

Greg Lehman 

Dr Christian Barton 

Papers mentioned in this episode

058. How to monitor your athletes workload with Tom Goom26 Apr 201700:28:19

Your athletes workload consists of the amount of running, training and matches performed. Their current workload can be compared to previous workload to identify periods where they may be at risk of injury or setting back their rehabilitation (Gabbett 2016). Balancing your athletes workload during rehabilitation and afterwards is vital to allow recovery from injury, improved performance while avoiding further injury.

What do you need to monitor, and how can you monitor workload in an easy and efficient manner? Find out in this episode of the Physio Edge podcast with Tom Goom and David Pope.

You will also discover:

  • What is athlete monitoring?
  • What is the aim?
  • What do we want to monitor?
  • What are external training loads?
  • What are internal training loads?
  • How might we monitor athletes?
  • What do we do with the data we get?

Free running injury assessment & treatment video series available now

Links of Interest

Reference: Gabbett, TJ. The training—injury prevention paradox: should athletes be training smarter and harder? Br J Sports Med 2016;50:273-280

057. Advanced Running Tests & Optimising Performance with Tom Goom21 Apr 201700:30:13

Helping our running patients recover and return to running following injury is our primary rehab priority, however we may also have the opportunity to help improve their running performance. Runners are often motivated by improving their speed, performance and times, and incorporating these goals into their rehab can increase motivation and exercise compliance. How then can we help our patients to improve their performance when returning from an injury? Find out in this episode of the Physio Edge podcast with Tom Goom

You will also discover:

  • Why consider performance?
  • How might we assess performance in a more scientific way?
  • What are the benefits of performance tests?
  • How can we link it to other aspects e.g. gait analysis?
  • How does performance influence training structure and progression?
  • How do we optimise performance in injured athletes?

Free running injury assessment & treatment video series available now

 

Links of Interest

056. How to assess your patient's running capacity and performance with Tom Goom15 Apr 201700:33:52

Identifying how much running each of your patients can perform (their load capacity) during their rehabilitation is a skill. This podcast will help you develop your load management skills, and know how much running your individual patients should perform at each stage of their rehabilitation.

In this podcast with Tom Goom, you will discover:

  • What is load capacity?
  • How do we identify your patient's running capacity?
  • How are your patient's progressing in their rehabilitation, relative to where they want to be?
  • How can you identify what your patients goals are, so that you can help tie this into a rehab program?
  • What questions can you ask your patients to assess load capacity and identify the right amount of load?
  • What objective tests can you use to help identify your patient's load capacity?
  • How should you adapt your testing with different pathology?
  • What tests can you perform to identify your patient's load capacity if your patient has an Achilles Tendinopathy?
  • What measures can we use to identify your patient's running performance?

This podcast is the first in a series of podcasts over the next few months with Tom Goom, where we will help to develop your assessment and treatment skills, while improving your results with runners.

Free running injury assessment & treatment video series available now

 

Links of Interest

Related articles

Cook J, Docking S. "Rehabilitation will increase the 'capacity' of your …insert musculoskeletal tissue here…." Defining 'tissue capacity': a core concept for clinicians. BJSM 2015

055. Patellofemoral pain in runners with Brad Neal08 Mar 201701:08:59

Runners regularly present for treatment of anterior knee pain. Accurate diagnosis is vital in guiding your treatment, and helping your patients return to painfree running.

In episode 55 of the Physio Edge podcast Brad Neal and David Pope discuss the different patient presentations with anterior knee pain, along with the subjective clues and objective tests that will help guide successful treatment.

We also explore:

  • Sources of anterior knee pain
  • Patellofemoral pain
  • Acute synovitis
  • Fat pad irritation
  • Osteochondral defects
  • The role of imaging
  • How to perform an objective assessment in patients with anterior knee pain, including key special tests
  • Red flags
  • Saphenous nerve involvement
  • How to assess if the patient will benefit from an orthotic intervention
  • Treatment of patellofemoral pain, synovitis, and fat pad irritation
  • Taping techniques

Links of Interest

Articles related to this episode:

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Physio Edge podcasts related to running injuries

162. Three top tips for treating runners with a meniscal injury. Physio Edge Track record: Running repairs podcast with Tom Goom05 Apr 202400:19:59

How can you treat patients who experience knee pain and swelling during and after running? If you suspect their symptoms are caused by a meniscal injury, how can you rehab and return these patients to running without surgery?

In this Physio Edge: Running repairs podcast with Tom Goom, you'll explore meniscal injuries in runners, recent research on runners with meniscal tears, and how to provide effective non-surgical management. You'll discover:

  • Initial steps for managing pain and swelling in affected runners.
  • Techniques to restore and maintain range of movement.
  • Strategies for rebuilding strength in key muscle groups.
  • Approaches to improve impact control and tolerance, preparing runners for a gradual return to their sport.
  • When to manage these patients non-surgically, and when to refer for a surgical opinion.

Tom explores the physical aspects of recovery, along with the impact of general health, weight management, and gait retraining on knee health. With a realistic timeline for recovery and a focus on individualised treatment plans, this podcast is a must-listen for therapists who treat runners.

🔗 Free Webinar Alert! Don't miss out on our free webinars for therapists on shin pain and Achilles tendinopathy in runners. Check the links below for more information.

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Chapters:

  • 03:36 - Recent research
  • 05:17 - Management
  • 09:26 - Restore ROM
  • 10:42 - Rebuild muscle strength
  • 12:07 - Return to sport
  • 17:03 - Surgical & non-surgical management
054. Hip and groin part 2 - assessment and treatment with Benoy Mathew02 Feb 201700:55:55

In this second podcast on hip and groin pain with Physiotherapist and Extended Scope Practitioner Benoy Mathew, we explore:

  • How you can assess the hip and groin
  • How to assess the lumbar spine, SIJ and the lower limb for factors contributing to your patient's groin pain
  • Tests you can perform to identify the source of your patient's hip and groin pain
  • Identifying hip joint involvement
  • How to start your patient's hip and groin exercises
  • When to incorporate exercises for local hip stabilising muscles
  • When you need to utilise and progress hip strengthening exercises
  • Exercise progressions you can use
  • How to strengthen while you lengthen the hip flexors
  • When and which plyometric exercises your patients can perform
  • When speed and agility work can be incorporated

In the first podcast with Ben Mathew "Hip and groin pain part 1 - diagnosis, pathology and red flags" with Benoy Mathew", we explored pathology around the hip and groin and when pathology relates to symptoms, knowledge of potential red flags, along with patterns and symptoms associated with each diagnosis is vital in guiding your treatment of hip and groin pain.

As mentioned in this episode Benoy presented a webinar with Clinical Edge. The webinar helps you discover:
• Rehabilitation of adductor and iliopsoas related groin pain
• Practical tips
• Common presentations
• Osteitis pubis, sports hernia, hip impingement
• Rehabilitation from initial stages to plyometrics

CLICK HERE to watch the webinar "Rehab of adductor and iliopsoas related groin pain" with Benoy Mathew with a free trial Clinical Edge membership

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053. Hip & groin pain - diagnosis, pathology and red flags with Benoy Mathew25 Nov 201600:55:58

Acute and chronic groin pain is common in sports, however diagnosis can be challenging. A thorough understanding of pathology around the hip and groin and when pathology relates to symptoms, knowledge of potential red flags, along with patterns and symptoms associated with each diagnosis is vital in guiding your treatment of hip and groin pain.

In the first of two podcasts on hip and groin pain with Physiotherapist and Extended Scope Practitioner Benoy Mathew, we explore:

  • How you can use the patient history to help your diagnosis and treatment
  • Important questions you NEED to ask all of your hip and groin pain patients
  • Sources of hip and groin pain - intra and extra-articular
  • How you can identify referred pain from the lumbar spine and SIJ
  • How you can identify important red flags around the hip and groin
  • When you should refer your patients for further investigations, medical assessment and surgical opinion
  • How you can identify osteoarthritis in younger patients
  • Differentiating hip impingement, labral pathology and hip dysplasia
  • When to request X-ray or MRI
  • Identifying and understanding iliopsoas pain and pathology

This is a vital podcast for anyone that treats hip and groin pain, and is highly recommended listening before Hip & groin pain part 2 - Assessment & Treatment with Benoy Mathew coming soon.

As mentioned in this episode Benoy is presenting a webinar with Clinical Edge. The webinar will discuss:
• Rehabilitation of adductor and iliopsoas related groin pain
• Practical tips
• Common presentations
• Osteitis pubis, sports hernia, hip impingement
• Rehabilitation from initial stages to plyometrics

CLICK HERE to enrol on the free webinar "Rehab of adductor and iliopsoas related groin pain" with Benoy Mathew

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052. Conservative or surgical management for ACL injuries with Enda King23 Oct 201601:04:41

ACL injuries commonly occur during pivoting and change of direction sports. What is the best way to manage these injuries? Are your patients suitable for conservative managment or will they require surgery?

In Physio Edge podcast 052, David Pope and Enda King discuss acute management of ACL injuries, and how you can help your patient decide whether to have conservative or surgical management.

We also explore:

  • What is the latest research around ACL injury
  • What leads to an ACL injury, and how is this important in your rehab?
  • What are the outcomes following ACL injury
  • How can you make clear decisions on when your patient is ready for return to training and return to sport
  • What biomechanics lead to ACL injury
  • What role does trunk control have in ACL injury
  • A patient example with an ACL injury
  • Conservative vs surgical management
  • Post injury management
  • Timeframe for surgery
  • Who is suitable for conservative management
  • How to prepare your patient for the extended rehab process following ACL injury
  • Strength and power training in ACL rehab
  • Youth and adolescent ACL injury management
  • How to manage concomitant chondral and meniscal injury
  • When can your patient return to running

You can download the free podcast handout that will take you through lateral knee and LCL injury assessment and rehabilitation by clicking here

Enda King will also be presenting at the Sports Injury Virtual Conference hosted by Clinical Edge along with the world leaders in sports injury management.

How can you manage ACL injuries conservatively? What are the important components of ACL rehab to help your players return to sport? Enda's presentation will take you through ACL rehab to address common strength and biomechanical issues found in athletes with ACL injuries. Discover exactly how to progress your conservative management of ACL injuries, and when your players can return to running and sport.

Get your free access to videos on sports injury assessment and treatment.

Links mentioned in this episode

Enda King

Free sports injury assessment and treatment videos

Sports Injuries virtual conference

Free podcast handout on ACL and lateral knee injuries

Download or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes

Enda King on Twitter @enda_king

Sports Surgery Clinic Dublin

Free trial of clinical edge membership

David Pope on Twitter

051. Lateral knee and LCL injuries with Matt Konopinski10 Oct 201601:09:04

Lateral knee injuries are common in football with landing from a jump or header, or during tackles when the tibia is forced into external rotation. This mechanism of injury often affects the Lateral/Fibular collateral ligament (LCL), however LCL injury is not always obvious from the patient's history, and can be misdiagnosed.

In this podcast with Liverpool FC Physiotherapist Matt Konopinski, we discuss LCL and lateral knee injuries, and how you can identify and treat these. LCL injuries can often respond extremely well to an accelerated rehabilitation approach, and in this podcast you will discover:

  • Sources of lateral knee pain
      - Lateral meniscus
      - Osteochondral defects
      - Lateral/Fibular collateral ligament
      - ACL
      - Postero lateral corner

  • Mechanism of injury

  • What your patients will report with LCL injury

  • Questions you need to ask your patients with lateral knee pain

  • Red flags

  • Objective assessment

  • Assessment tests you can use with lateral knee pain

  • When imaging is useful and when it should be avoided

  • Risk factors for injury

  • Management of LCL injury

  • When to commence strengthening

  • How to maintain strength and cardiovascular fitness during rehabilitation

  • How to explain the injury and rehabilitation to your patients

You can download the free podcast handout that will take you through lateral knee and LCL injury assessment and rehabilitation by clicking here

Links mentioned in this episode

Matt Konopinski

Free sports injury assessment and treatment videos

Free podcast handout on LCL and lateral knee injuries

Matt Konopinski on Twitter @Matt_Kono

LFC Liverpool football club

Article Impact of exercise selection on hamstring muscle activation

Free trial of clinical edge membership

David Pope on Twitter

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050. Treating the TMJ and jaw pain with Dr Stephen Shaffer20 Sep 201601:08:30

Temporomandibular joint pain and dysfunction can significantly impact your patients life, limiting their ability to enjoy eating and talking. Temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD) has a lot of musculoskeletal contributors that physiotherapists are perfectly positioned to treat and help improve patient's lives.

In episode 50 of the Physio Edge podcast, Dr Stephen Shaffer and David Pope discuss TMD, structures that can be affected, and how you can assess and get great results treating TMD patients. We also explore:

  • Structures involved in TMD
  • Involvement of the cervical spine
  • Common presentations of TMD
  • Questions to ask in your subjective assessment
  • Red flags
  • How to perform an objective assessment
  • Normal TMJ movement
  • How you can treat TMD
  • Manual therapy
  • Education
  • Exercise therapy
  • Are the Rocabado 6x6 the best exercises to provide your patients

Dr Stephen Shaffer is presenting a webinar on TMD, hosted by Clinical Edge, and you can enrol free on this webinar by CLICKING HERE

Links mentioned in this episode

049. Running from injury part 2 with Dr Rich Willy09 Sep 201600:52:59

In Running from Injury part 2, Dr Rich Willy will help you assess and retrain running in your patients with achilles tendinopathy, patellofemoral joint pain, ITB Syndrome and stress fractures. We explore the latest evidence and how it will help you address pain and injuries related to running.

You will discover:

  • Treadmill or overground running assessments?
  • Gait retraining for particular musculoskeletal conditions
  • How to provide your patients with the individual running cue they need
  • What cadence should we be aiming at for runners (hint: it may not be what you expect!)
  • Is heel strike important to assess
  • Running assessment from the side
  • Important factors when treating runners with PFJP
  • Running assessment & retraining for achilles tendinopathy
  • Factors involved in ITB Syndrome
  • When are orthotics useful

You can download the handout to go along with this podcast to help you perform a running assessment, retrain runners and address achilles tendinopathy, knee pain and tibial stress injuries. 

Links mentioned in this episode

Other Physio Edge podcasts related to running injuries

048. Running from injury part 1 with Dr Rich Willy03 Aug 201600:56:12

Are you looking to improve your assessment & treatment of runners? Would you like to know exactly what to look for in a running assessment? What are the most important factors to treat when your running patients have achilles tendinopathy? How is that different when they have patellofemoral joint pain (PFJP)? The research around running is evolving quickly, and in this podcast with Dr Rich Willy we explore the latest evidence and how it will help you address the most important factors with different musculoskeletal issues.

You will also discover:

  • How to perform a running gait analysis
  • Key communication points with runners
  • How to explain your gait analysis & running injuries to your patients
  • Important questions to ask runners
  • Intensity runners should train at to avoid illness and injury
  • Technology you can incorporate in your running assessment and retraining
  • Important factors when treating runners with PFJP and achilles tendinopathy
  • Does pronation & foot mechanics matter?

I have an awesome freebie for you with this podcast

You can download free the podcast handout that will take you through the 8 essential areas to analyse when performing a running assessment, communication tips, advice to give your running patients during their recovery and much more.

Links mentioned in this episode

Dr Rich Willy on Twitter

Dr Rich Willy at East Carolina University

Dr Rich Willy on ResearchGate

University of Delaware

Irene Davis - Harvard

Garmin 620

RunCadence app for iOS and Android

Run Scribe

Purchase a RunScribe

Article on polarised training approach

Bone stress injuries in runners webinar with Tom Goom

Achilles tendinopathy in runners online course

Free trial of Clinical Edge membership

David Pope on Twitter

Some papers of interest:

i. Patellofemoral Joint and Achilles Tendon Loads During Overground and Treadmill Running

ii. In-field gait retraining and mobile monitoring to address running biomechanics associated with tibial stress fracture: In-field gait retraining and monitoring

iii. Mirror gait retraining for the treatment of patellofemoral pain

Other Physio Edge podcasts related to running injuries

Physio Edge 046 Proximal hamstring tendinopathy with Tom Goom

Physio Edge 042 Treatment of Plantaris & Achilles Tendinopathy with Seth O'Neill

Physio Edge 039 Patellofemoral pain in adolescents with Dr Michael Rathleff

Physio Edge 038 Plantar fasciopathy loading programs with Michael Rathleff

Physio Edge 023 Lower limb tendinopathies with Dr Peter Malliaras

Physio Edge 012 Plantar fascia, achilles tendinopathy & nerve entrapments with Russell Wright

Physio Edge 010 Biomechanics Of Running With Blaise Dubois

Physio Edge 005 Tendons And Tendinopathy with Dr Jill Cook

047. Rotator cuff tendinopathy with Dr Chris Littlewood23 Jun 201601:17:49

The rotator cuff and rotator cuff tendons are often involved in shoulder pain, and targeted with our treatment. Dr Chris Littlewood is a Physio and senior research fellow at the University of Sheffield, and spends a large portion of his time studying and treating shoulder pain, including rotator cuff tendinopathy. In this episode, Chris and I discuss how to identify rotator cuff tendinopathy and other types of shoulder pain, and how you can direct your treatment for rotator cuff tendinopathy. We also explore:

  • Other sources of shoulder pain
  • Clues that the cervical spine could be referring pain to the shoulder
  • Unstable shoulder
  • Red flags
  • When to image the shoulder
  • When bursal thickness or effusion is or isn't a problem
  • Shoulder assessment
  • Stiff painful shoulders
  • Treatment for rotator cuff tendinopathy
  • Improving exercise adherence
  • When to perform special orthopaedic tests
  • Injections
  • Surgery
  • Is there really a rotator cuff exercise, compared to a scapular muscle exercise?
  • Do exercises isolate the rotator cuff?

Links of interest

Enrol on the free webinar with Dr Chris Littlewood

Download the handout from this podcast

Subscribe to the podcast free on iTunes

Dr Chris Littlewood on Twitter

Dr Chris Littlewood

Webinar with Tom Goom on Bone stress injuries

Cervical spine assessment & treatment online course

Clinical Edge

Clinical Edge free trial

David Pope on Twitter

046. Proximal hamstring tendinopathy with Tom Goom04 May 201601:33:27

Proximal hamstring tendinopathy (PHT) occurs in athletes, runners, weightlifters, and other athletes, as well as more sedentary patients, causing pain at the hamstring origin and limiting your patients ability to sit, run and continue to be active.

There are a number of structures that can contribute to pain in this area, and in this podcast, Tom Goom and David Pope discuss how to clearly identify PHT and differentiate it from lumbar spine referred pain, hip pain, sciatic nerve pain and other conditions.

Tom recently released an article in JOSPT on Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy: clinical aspects of assessment and management with Peter MalliarasMike Reiman and Craig Purdam. We explore this article, and the research around PHT, and cover in detail:

  • Subjective clues to guide you towards diagnosis
  • Aggravating factors and 24 hour pain patterns
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Lumbar spine pain
  • How the lumbar spine could contribute to development of PHT
  • Hip pain
  • SIJ pain
  • Sciatic nerve pain
  • Development of PHT
  • Central sensitisation
  • Diagnostic tests for PHT
  • Hamstring tests
  • Other assessment tests
  • Functional tests
  • The value of palpation
  • Tests for involvement of the rest of the kinetic chain
  • Running assessment/gait analysis
  • Testing load tolerance
  • Biopsychosocial aspects of tendon recovery
  • Other advice for patients
  • Whether stretching is helpful
  • When your patient can return to running
  • Cross training
  • Does manual therapy have a role in the treatment of PHT?
  • Starting treatment (Stage 1)
  • When and how to progress rehabilitation (Stage 2)
  • Further rehabilitation progressions (Stage 3)
  • Advanced exercise progressions for high load sports
  • Exercises you can incorporate during the various stages
  • How long recovery will take

 

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045. Treatment of Lateral Elbow Pain Part 2 With Dr Leanne Bisset14 Apr 201601:13:15

How can you treat your patient's lateral elbow pain (lateral epicondylalgia (LE)/tennis elbow)? How and when should you progress your patient's exercise program? Is pain during their exercise program ok?

In this episode, which is Part 2 of Lateral Elbow pain with Dr Leanne Bisset, we explore in detail how you can differentially diagnose LE from other causes of lateral elbow pain, and treat it successfully.

Discover:

  • Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of LE
  • How to get the best outcomes for your patients when treating LE
  • Do isometrics work?
  • How can you commence strengthening?
  • Should your patient experience any pain during their exercise program?
  • When and how can you incorporate Mobilisation with Movement into your treatment program?
  • How to perform MWM's for LE
  • How to progress your treatment
  • Identifying and treating radial nerve involvement
  • Incorporating strengthening for the upper limb
  • High level athletes and weightlifters with lateral elbow pain - is this likely to be LE or another condition?
  • Identifying nerve root irritation with pain over the lateral elbow
  • Taping methods to deload the lateral elbow when there is nerve involvement
  • Clinical reasoning of your treatment
  • Predictors of poor treatment prognosis
  • When to order imaging
  • Evidence for and against other treatment strategies including the Cyriax approach, massage, laser, ESWT, corticosteroids and PRP
  • Validated screening tools for LE, including the PRTEE

In this episode, Leanne answers a lot of your questions on LE, asked via Twitter and the Clinical Edge newsletter. 

Dr Leanne Bisset is a Physiotherapist, Physiotherapy lecturer and researcher at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia who has extensively researched and published on lateral elbow pain, and spends a large proportion of her clinical time treating the upper limb and lateral elbow.

This is a two part podcast, followup up Lateral Elbow Pain Part 1, episode 44 of the Physio Edge podcast, David Pope and Dr Leanne Bisset.

Links of Interest

Dr Leanne Bisset

Dr Leanne Bisset on ResearchGate

Dr Leanne Bisset on Twitter

Download the Patient-Rated Tennis Elbow Evaluation (PRTEE)

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Lateral Elbow Pain Part 1 with Dr Leanne Bisset

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161. Overcoming persistent shoulder pain in tennis players with Jo Gibson14 Mar 202400:18:27

 

Jo Gibson (Upper Limb Rehabilitation Specialist Physio) discusses the keys to successfully treat persistent anterior shoulder pain in two tennis players who had not recovered despite previous extensive rehab. In this podcast Jo explores what to include in your rehab of sportspeople who place large demands on their shoulders, elements commonly overlooked in shoulder rehab and how to address patients' psychosocial factors, fears and beliefs to successfully treat persistent shoulder pain.

Click here for the free webinar with Jo Gibson "Rotator cuff revealed! Rehab & reasoning". 

The handout for this podcast consists of a transcript and research articles referenced in this podcast.

Free video series "Frozen shoulder assessment & treatment" with Jo Gibson

Improve your frozen shoulder assessment and treatment now with Jo Gibson's free video series at clinicaledge.co/shoulder

Shoulder: Steps to Success online course with Jo Gibson

Improve your assessment and treatment of shoulder pain with the Shoulder: Steps to Success online course with Jo Gibson, now available for enrolment at clinicaledge.co/shouldersuccess

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Podcast chapters:

 

  • 02:30 - Case studies: 2 tennis players
  • 03:14 - Kinetic chain definition 
  • 04:18 - When to consider the kinetic chain 
  • 07:07 - Screening tests 
  • 10:17 - Objective measures
044. Lateral Elbow Pain Part 1 with Dr Leanne Bisset07 Mar 201600:42:45

Lateral elbow pain (lateral epicondylalgia/tennis elbow) affects a lot of athletes, manual workers and office workers, and can respond fantastically to Physiotherapy treatment, or in other patients with a similar presentation, not at all. 

Dr Leanne Bisset is a Physiotherapist, Physiotherapy lecturer and researcher at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia that has extensively researched and published on lateral elbow pain, and spends the majority of her clinical time treating the upper limb and lateral elbow.

This is a two part podcast, and in Part 1, episode 44 of the Physio Edge podcast, David Pope and Dr Leanne Bisset discuss:

  • Why is Lateral Epicondylalgia (LE) difficult to treat?
  • What tissue pathology exists in LE
  • Pain pattern for LE
  • Patient reports that will help your diagnosis of LE
  • Important aspects to communicate with your patients regarding their LE
  • Objective tests that you can perform
  • Patient advice
  • Should you rest your patients or provide exercises?
  • How is tendinopathy in the Upper Limb different to the Lower Limb?
  • Commencing treatment
  • How to incorporate manual therapy into your treatment
  • Exercises you can start your treatment with
  • Should you include isometric exercises for lateral elbow pain
  • How often should your patients perform their exercises
  • Exercise into pain, or avoid pain?

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043. Sporting Shoulder with Jo Gibson15 Feb 201601:29:11

Shoulder pain and injury in overhead athletes is very common and has a high recurrence rate. In this podcast with Jo Gibson we discuss sporting shoulder injuries and rehabilitation, including:

  • The role of the Rotator Cuff
  • Train strength or efficiency in the Rotator Cuff?
  • Rotator Cuff muscle balance
  • When is (and when isn't) surgery necessary for Rotator Cuff or SLAP tears
  • Assessment of shoulder stiffness
  • Bursal involvement
  • Imaging of the shoulder
  • How you can help improve Rotator Cuff activation
  • What role does manual therapy have in shoulder treatment?
  • The importance of the postero-superior cuff
  • What stretches can you perform for the postero-superior Rotator Cuff
  • Treating pain in loaded and overhead activities
  • Exercises you can use in shoulder treatment with your athletes
  • Incorporating the kinetic chain in shoulder rehabilitation
  • Managing shoulder load
  • Central sensitisation
  • Treating throwing athletes
  • The role of the thoracic spine in shoulder pain
  • Communication tips with your shoulder pain patients
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042. Treatment of Plantaris & Achilles Tendinopathy with Seth O'Neill23 Nov 201500:28:08

In Episode 41 of the Physio Edge podcast, Dr Christoph Spang and I discussed how Plantaris may play a role in Achilles tendinopathy. In this episode of the Physio Edge podcast, I discuss with Seth O'Neill how you can identify Plantaris involvement in your patients, and adjust and progress your conservative treatment of Achilles pain and tendinopathy with Plantaris involvement. 

Seth O'Neill and I discuss: 

  • What indicates Plantaris involvement and helps you differentiate from mid portion Achilles Tendinopathy
  • Where do patients have pain with Plantaris tendinopathy
  • What history do patients with Plantaris involvement or tendinopathy present with
  • Objective tests and findings for Plantaris tendinopathy and involvement
  • Biomechanics contributing to Plantaris tendinopathy
  • Is treatment successful for Plantaris
  • How to treat Plantaris tendinopathy and involvement in midportion Achilles
  • How to perform a loading program
  • Running adjustments
  • aping
  • Manual therapy

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041. The role of Plantaris in mid portion Achilles Tendinopathy with Dr Christoph Spang20 Nov 201500:32:09

Plantaris tendinopathy and compression of Plantaris on the Achilles has been shown to play a role in some cases of Achilles Tendinopathy, slowing down their rate of rehabilitation progress.

Dr Christoph Spang is a Biologist and Sports Scientist, and completed a PhD on "The plantaris tendon in relation to the Achilles tendon in midportion Achilles tendinopathy". In this podcast we discuss the interaction of Plantaris in patients with midportion Achilles Tendinopathy, including:

  • Why consider Plantaris in Achilles Tendinopathy patients?
  • How can Plantaris cause or be involved in Achilles pain?
  • Anatomy, function and role of Plantaris
  • What interaction does Plantaris have with the Achilles and calf?
  • Do patients with Plantaris involvement respond to a loading program?
  • What is the clinical presentation of a patient with Plantaris involvement?
  • How can Ultrasound or Ultrasound Tissue Characterisation (UTC) be utilised to identify Plantaris?
  • The role of injection therapy
  • Surgical treatment

Links of Interest

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Dr Christoph Spang at UMU

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Dr Christoph Spang on Research Gate

David Pope on Twitter

Out very soon…. Conservative management of Plantaris involvement in Achilles Tendinopathy with Seth O'Neill

040. Shoulder Simplified with Adam Meakins12 Sep 201501:19:32

How complex does your shoulder assessment need to be? How can you can simplify your shoulder assessment and treatment?

Find out in episode 40 of the Physio Edge podcast with Adam Meakins, where Adam and I discuss:

  • Common mistakes Physio's make in assessment and treatment of the shoulder
  • Adam's classification of shoulder pain
  • Subjective clues to guide your objective and treatment
  • How to identify weak and painful shoulders
  • Red flags with shoulder pain
  • Frozen shoulders
  • Objective assessment
  • Subacromial impingement
  • GIRD (Glenohumeral Internal Rotation Deficit)
  • The use of US in shoulder pain
  • Surgical treatment for shoulder pain
  • Treatment for weak and painful shoulders
  • Loading the rotator cuff for pain relief and strength
  • Gym junkie shoulder pain and how to adapt their weight training programs

Links of Interest

Download your free handout on The Shoulder Simplified

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Adam's website

Adam's Shoulder courses

Adam's presentation on "When is a GIRD not a GIRD"

Shoulder Pain Virtual Conference

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039. Patellofemoral pain in adolescents with Dr Michael Rathleff22 Aug 201501:25:35

Patellofemoral joint pain (PFJP) is very common in adolescents, and in the Physio Edge podcast episode 39, I discuss causes, assessment and treatment with the author of numerous studies on PFJP in AdolescentsDr Michael Rathleff.

You will explore: 

  • Different types/groups of Adolescents that suffer with PFJP
  • Common reasons for failure of Physiotherapy
  • Diagnosis and DDx of PFJP
  • Examination of the knee
  • Treatment of PFJP
  • How to tailor and progress your exercise programs
  • The use of orthotics
  • Taping
  • The usefulness of stretching
  • Prognosis & predictors of recovery
  • Biomechanics
  • and more.

I have also created a free handout to supplement and help you get the most from this podcast, which you can download here

Dr Michael Rathleff also provided great insights into Loading Programs for Plantar Fasciopathy on the Physio Edge podcast episode 38, also well worth a listen if you haven't already. 

 

Links of interest

Download your free handout on Patellofemoral Pain in Adolescents to go along with this podcast

Dr Michael Rathleff's publications on PFJP in Adolescents

Dr Michael Rathleff on Twitter

Free Shoulder Assessment & Treatment videos with leading international presenters

2015 Patellofemoral research retreat

David Pope on Twitter

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038. Plantar fasciopathy loading programs with Michael Rathleff09 Jul 201501:03:05

Plantar Fasciopathy (Plantar heel pain) can be a stubborn condition to treat, or you can learn to love treating it like Dr Michael Rathleff, incorporate the right loading program and activity modification and get some great results.

In episode 38 of the Physio Edge podcast, I talk to Dr Michael Rathleff, author of the RCT "High-load strength training improves outcome in patients with plantar fasciitis: A randomized controlled trial with 12-month follow-up: HL strength training and plantar fasciitis".

We discuss:

  • Common mistakes in the treatment of plantar fasciopathy (PF)
  • How we can improve our treatment of PF
  • Why call it plantar fasciopathy instead of plantar fasciitis?
  • Research on PF
  • Loading programs for PF
  • Patient advice
  • Activity modification
  • Running load modification
  • Short and long term results from loading the plantar fascia
  • Considerations when treating PF
  • Who is not suitable for a loading program
  • Who respond the best to this program, and who responds the least
  • How to modify the loading program
  • Development of PF
  • Running technique
  • Treatment or strengthening of other areas
  • Stretching
  • Orthotics
  • Cortisone
  • Plantar fascia tears

Links of interest

037. Pilates beyond low back pain with Lana Johnson10 Jun 201501:26:05

Pilates is commonly known and used for rehabilitation of persistent low back pain, however Pilates principles and equipment can also be used for assessment and treatment of pain beyond the pelvis and lumbar spine.

In episode 37 of the Physio Edge podcast, Lana Johnson, a former dancer and a Physiotherapist from BPS Tensegrity in Sydney and I discuss how you can use Pilates for knee and shoulder pain, as well as:

  • Common misconceptions about Pilates
  • Functional vs non-functional exercises
  • Common errors made in Pilates training and rehabilitation
  • Pilates for hip and knee pain
  • Case studies using Pilates with shoulder and knee pain patients
  • Patient progression
  • Cues you can use with your patients for hip and shoulder retraining
  • Exercise progressions
  • Exercises to stay away from

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036. How to help patients with persistent pain - part 2 with Mike Stewart29 Apr 201501:23:11

Mike Stewart and further explore persistent pain, helpful language you can use with your persistent pain patients, how you can use group sessions, as well as:

  • How the bio fits into biopsychosocial
  • How you can develop an educational toolkit
  • Case study of a patient with persistent peripheral pain
  • Language & communication recommendations
  • Misconceptions about persistent pain education and much more

Links of Interest

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035. Know Pain with Mike Stewart26 Mar 201501:26:53

Persistent pain can be a challenge, but also enjoyable to treat. In this episode of the Physio Edge podcast, Mike Stewart and I focus on specific examples and case studies of patients with complex or persistent pain, how you may approach persistent pain patients, explain their pain, use metaphors and explanations so they understand it, and help guide them through the recovery process.

Mike and I get into the details on:

  • Why Physios need a deep understanding of pain science
  • How does the "bio" part come into bio-pscyho-social
  • How can we identify if the patient needs pain education, further investigations, a biological approach eg specific exercise
  • How can you incorporate pain science into the treatment of patients with acute pain
  • Mike's top tips when working with persistent pain
  • Specific case studies of patients with persistent and complex back pain, and how Mike has worked with these patients, including their presentation, beliefs, Mike's language used in their session, activity modification and results achieved with these patients
  • How to develop our teaching skills to achieve the best results with our patients

Links of Interest

Clinical Edge discounts for Undergraduate Physio students available by emailing verification of your student status to info@clinicaledge.co

160. ACL injuries with Zoe Russell08 Feb 202400:53:03

Join David Pope (APA Titled Musculoskeletal and Sports & Exercise Physio) and Zoe Russell (Specialist Sports Physiotherapist, FACP; APA Titled Musculoskeletal Physio) in the Physio Edge podcast as they explore how to assess, treat, and manage patients suffering from ACL injuries or suspected ACL injuries.

You'll discover how to assess a patient with a suspected ACL injury, and criteria you can use to identify whether a patient may be suited to non-surgical management or is likely to require surgery. You'll also understand when immediate or delayed surgery is the best option, and how to guide patients through the decision-making process and different phases of rehab.

Listen in to provide your ACL injury patients with the best treatment options.

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Click here or on the image below for podcast 163. ACL treatment options & Cross bracing with Clare Walsh

     
034. Advanced ACL rehab with Enda King19 Feb 201501:26:09

The advanced stages of ACL rehabilitation are enjoyable to progress your patients through, and at the same time challenging to find the right exercises, and optimise the rate of progression through to return to training (RTT) and return to play (RTP). In this episode, Enda King from the Sports Surgery Clinic Dublin and David Pope discuss these later stages of rehabilitating your patients following an ACL Reconstruction.

We discussed the prehabilitation and early stage ACL Rehab in the Physio Edge podcast episode 32, and episode 34 Enda and I cover in detail:

  • Return to straight line running and change of direction
  • Advanced Exercise Programming
  • What exercises to choose
  • Proprioception and motor control training
  • Strength and power programming
  • Periodisation
  • Sports specific conditioning
  • Plyometrics – readiness, what to use and timing of these in the training schedule
  • Multi-directional performance
  • Strength testing – what Enda uses, indicators of strength
  • Decisions on return to training
  • Return to contact
  • Decision making on Return to play
  • Bridging the gap between the gym and the field
  • Advice for Physios rehabilitating athletes recovering from an ACL reconstruction
  • When to discharge an ACL athlete and much more

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033. How to treat anterior knee pain with Kurt Lisle23 Jan 201501:16:10

Anterior knee pain can occur in your elite sports patients right through to office workers and weekend warriors. In this podcast with Kurt Lisle, we discuss anterior knee pain, the causes, how to diagnose the source of the pain, and the best ways to treat and rehabilitate these patients.

Kurt Lisle is the Australian Socceroos Physio and co-owner of The Knee Joint Physio in Queensland. Kurt and I discussed acute knee injuries on the Physio Edge podcast in episode 29, and I really wanted to get Kurt back on the podcast to discuss the anterior knee.

In this fantastic, detailed episode of the Physio Edge podcast, Kurt and I explore:

  • Subjective clues that give you ideas about differential diagnosis
  • Fat pad - location of pain, activities that irritate
  • Patellofemoral joint - aggravating activities and DDx
  • Patellar tendon - subjective clues, location of pain
  • Objective examination of the anterior knee
  • Tests for PFJ
  • Functional tests first or examination on the treatment table?
  • Palpation of the anterior knee
  • Fat pad palpation and tests
  • Is the fat pad tender medial and laterally, or can it be tender only on one aspect
  • Neuromuscular patterning
  • Squat and one leg squat examination
  • What causes "catching" pain on movement
  • Chondral defects - identifying
  • Is there value in the grind test
  • When to refer for MRI and other imaging
  • Important factors that may contribute to AKP
  • Gait contributors to AKP
  • Treatment of PFJ pain
  • Modifying PFJ aggravating activities
  • Using EMG
  • Quadricep rehabilitation and strengthening
  • When to incorporate squats into your rehabilitation program
  • The role of taping for PFJ or fat pad irritation
  • Red flags causing knee pain

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032. How to rehabilitate ACL injuries with Enda King09 Dec 201401:08:39

ACL injuries can be career ending, or they can be an opportunity to sort out movement efficiency, motor control and and technical skills, coming back from the rehabilitation process with more power, speed and efficiency than they had before they injured their ACL.

In this podcast, Enda King from the Sports Surgery Clinic in Dublin currently completing his PhD in 3D biomechanical analysis after ACL reconstruction, with the aim to assist in RTP decision making and identifying fully rehabilitated athletes, and David Pope discuss ACL injuries, and the most important factors in pre-operative management and post-operative exercise programming to get your patients back to sport with improved sporting performance.

Going deep on the details involved in ACL Rehabilitation, including:

  • 01:20 Enda King and SSC, and working with ACL athletes PhD in 3D biomechanical analysis after ACL reconstruction, aim to assist in RTP decision making and what a fully rehabilitated athlete looks like

  • What does a fully rehabilitated athlete look like?

  • Incorporating performance goals into the rehab process

  • Can athletes achieve better performance post ACL rehab than they were pre-injury

  • Types of ACL grafts

  • Preoperative ACL Physiotherapy, helping your patient to prepare for the surgery

  • Preoperative education

  • Restoring knee extension, balancing pain and improved range of movement, empowering your patient

  • Guidelines for pain, swelling when restoring range of movement

  • Restoring quadriceps activation, normalising gait patterns

  • Clinical Edge

  • Clinical Edge's free webinar program

  • Preoperative length of time

  • Post-op - initial management

  • To use or not use co-contraction exercises of quads and hamstrings

  • Should you use squatting style exercises Week 1 post op

  • Activating quadriceps - internal quadriceps cues or external exercise focus

  • How much pain should a patient experience during or after an exercise

  • Week 2 post-op

  • When can heavy gym training commence

  • Changing movement patterns throughout the kinetic chain

  • Advice for patients in the early stages of rehab

  • Frequency of exercise

  • Week 2 onwards - exercises incorporating balance and proprioception

  • Open vs closed chain exercises

  • Advice for patients in weeks 2–6

  • Nutrition and dietary advice for patients

  • Gym based rehabilitation

  • Choosing and modifying exercises for middle stages of the rehabilitation process

  • Various types of squatting movement, and progressing the types of squats

  • Goblet squats

  • Retraining ideal squat patterns

  • Progressing squats, deadlifts and lunges

  • Front squats

  • Front squats and trap bar deadlifts vs back squats during rehabilitation

  • When can an athlete start cycling

  • Disadvantages of using cycling as the main part of a rehabilitation program

  • Hamstring rehabilitation after semitendinosis/gracilis graft

  • Strength and power development

  • Strength testing - mid thigh pull, leg press

  • Should we use open chain strength tests

  • When to perform strength tests

  • Strength vs power and rate of force development

  • Running - incorporating into the program. When can your patient start running?

  • Preparation for running

  • Running drills

  • Ideal movement patterns in running

  • Enda King and SSC, and working with ACL athletes

Podcast timeline

  • 3:35 What does a fully rehabilitated athlete look like?

  • 5:40 Incorporating performance goals into the rehab process

  • 6:50 Can athletes achieve better performance post ACL rehab than they were pre-injury

  • 8:20 Types of ACL grafts

  • 11:10 Preoperative ACL Physiotherapy, helping your patient to prepare for the surgery - an opportunity to prepare your patients knee, ROM, strength and educate them on the rehabilitation process

  • 14:20 Preoperative education

  • 14:40 Restoring knee extension, balancing pain and improved range of movement, empowering your patient with

  • 15:40 Guidelines for pain, swelling when restoring range of movement

  • 16:15 Restoring quadriceps activation, normalising gait patterns

  • 17:10 Clinical Edge

  • 18:45 Clinical Edge's free webinar program

  • 19:30 Preoperative length of time

  • 20:35 Post-op - initial management

  • 23:20 To use or not use co-contraction exercises of quads and hamstrings

  • 24:50 Should you use squatting style exercises Week 1 post op

  • 25:25 Activating quadriceps - internal quadriceps cues or external exercise focus

  • 26:30 How much pain should a patient experience during or after an exercise

  • 27:30 Week 2 post-op

  • 28:30 When can heavy gym training commence

  • 29:30 Changing movement patterns throughout the kinetic chain

  • 31:00 Advice for patients in the early stages of rehab

  • 32:10 Frequency of exercise

  • 32:55 Week 2 onwards - exercises incorporating balance and proprioception

  • 34:10 Open vs closed chain exercises

  • 35:40 Advice for patients in weeks 2–6

  • 37:15 Nutrition and dietary advice for patients

  • 37:45 Gym based rehabilitation

  • 38:50 Choosing and modifying exercises for middle stages of the rehabilitation process

  • 41:00 Various types of squatting movement, and progressing the types of squats

  • 41:45 Goblet squats

  • 42:30 Retraining ideal squat patterns

  • 43:25 Progressing squats, deadlifts and lunges

  • 44:00 Front squats

  • 46:00 Front squats and trap bar deadlifts vs back squats during rehabilitation

  • 47:25 When can an athlete start cycling

  • 48:00 Disadvantages of using cycling as the main part of a rehabilitation program

  • 48:30 Hamstring rehabilitation after semitendinosis/gracilis graft

  • 49:45 Strength and power development

  • 51:00 Strength testing - mid thigh pull, leg press

  • 53:15 Should we use open chain strength tests

  • 54:20 When to perform strength tests

  • 55:00 Strength vs power and rate of force development

  • 55:50 Running - incorporating into the program. When can your patient start running?

  • 57:30 Preparation for running

  • 58:35 Running drills

  • 1:00:30 Ideal movement patterns in running

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