Episodes
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I talk with Dr Kim Hebert-Losier. An associate professor, biomechanist and physiotherapist out of The University fo Waikato. You can see her profile here.
Some topics discussed:
running as rehab her Calf App to evaluate plantar flexion strength and its potential relevance to clinical practice
whether body weight training, as opposed to heavy resistance training, can improve running economy (Kim was involved in a paper that showed this!)
whether you need to bend the knee to appropriately target the soleus (hint - you donât but there are some caveats) super shoes and running economy running technique and running economy -
Dr Lori Michener (Professor of Biomechanics and Physical therapist) is a super expert on shoulder biomechanics and rehabilitation.
Today we talked about:
- the role of biomechanics in pain and injury- whether you need to be concerned with scapular movement/control
- changes in her clinical opinion
- shoulder "impingement" debates
and so much more.More about Dr Michener
The central theme of Michenerâs funded research is to define optimal treatment pathways for patients with musculoskeletal shoulder disorders by focusing on characterizing mechanisms, defining classification and management approaches and determining optimal outcomes of care. Specifically, her main research aims are: 1) to elucidate the biomechanical and neurophysiological mechanisms related to the presence of pain and poor recovery, in order to 2) develop classification and management strategies to optimize functional outcomes and simultaneously 3) determine the optimal set of patient outcome measures that comprehensively capture activity limitations and participation restrictions to judge treatment outcomes. She is director of the Clinical Biomechanics and Orthopedic Outcomes Research Laboratory, and directs the development, collection and analysis of patient-rated outcomes and process of care in the USC Physical Therapy clinics, and serves as a resource for clinical research.
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Dr Bas van Hooren discussing running injury prevention, running technique and running economy.
Dr van Hooren is a true expert in running biomechanics. Blending critical thinking, a strong academic background of excellent publications and personal success in elite running Bas brings huge insights into this field.
I said it numerous times in the podcast but Bas' PhD in this field should really be used as an exemplar for all PhD students. His work goes beyond the biomechanics of running and also tests his ideas with clinical relevant intervention studies.
You can see his papers here with many of them being open access
Bas's papers on Pubmed
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We had Dr Peter Malliaris on this week talking tendons. Its great to hear different researcher clinicians provide their different takes on the same topic. Dr Malliaris is a full time professor at Monash University with a keen interest in Tendinopathy. He teaches the popular online course Tendinopathy rehab.
We talk about:
The role of injections in tendinopathy (hint: not much)
The limitations of the literature and research surrounding exercise and tendinopathyThe role of load management in tendinopathy and why we donât have a lot of research on it despite it probably being the most important thing we can manage
The role of heavy loading, strength changes and tendinopathy recovery
Strength testing and tendinopathy rehab
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Kate Jochimsen, PhD, ATC is a Researcher at the Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research (CHOIR) at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Member of the Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her work âbridges the gapâ between sports medicine and psychology by developing interventions to improve patient's pain-related cognitions (âhow they thinkâ) and emotions (âhow they feelâ) to improve their health behaviors and increase physical activity. She is passionate about advancing psychologically informed practice and teaching clinicians how to communicate about mental health and intervene when appropriate. Her work has been funded by agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the American College of Sports Medicine.
The big questions we try to answer:
1. When you have hip pain why does it hurt?
2. What is the mechanism behind psychological factors influencing pain?
3. How do we address these psychological factors?
4. What is cognitive restructuring and how can you do it to help pain? -
Dr Stephanie Mundt (PT, PhD Candidate) is on talking about bone stress injuries and optimizing the health of athletes to keep them performing and living well.
We talk about:
- can you run with pain when you have a bone stress injury- why bone stress injuries occur
- high risk versus low risk stress fractures
- how to build bone and manage injury risk
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Greg speaks with Jeff Beran of Evolution PT and Jeff's partner Frank Tardi. They run a successful private practice with exercise, health and optimal training as the foundation of their intervention. They teach a popular course on energy systems training to improve outcomes entitled "Practical Programming: A
Clinician's Guide to Maximizing Physical PotentialThey share their thoughts on both exercise prescription and manual therapy AND offer mentorships to those looking to learn more about their model.
Their Bios are here
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Dr Johan Lahti PhD is a strength and conditioning coach and an expert in the prevention and training on hamstrings.
Johan is a great thinker related to all aspects of strength and conditioning but has a special interest in mitigating the risk of hamstring strains.
In this episode we talk about:
potential risk factors for hamstring strains how to best train the hamstrings for performance and injury risk using EMG to assess hamstring exercises and the role of technique in injuriesSome relevant references
Johan's injury prevention study
Training hamstrings
Sprinting and hamstrings
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Dr Gerard McMahon is a sports scientist out of Ulster University with a special interest in how we can train tendons for both performance and rehab.
We talk:
Partial range vs full range squats for vertical jump
Partial range vs long range training to build tendon mechanical properties (e.g stiffness)
Is there a sweetspot for tendon loading (e.g 4.5-6% strain) and why it may be greater than this range.
Why knowing the actual tendon strain may not be required to prescribe exercises to increase tendon stiffness and strength
Dr McMahon's Ulster University Profile
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Another very practical and pragmatic podcast. Dr Falk Mersmann is a leader in how tendons adapt to load and I would say an accidental leader in the minumum effective dose to get tendons to adapt.
Some topics we covered:
Why having a good balance between tendon stiffness and muscle strength is important for tendinopathy prevention and treatment How personalized tendon loading can address this potential risk factor Specifics of tendon loading to achieve tendon positive tendon adaptations (e.g increasing stiffness). Why plyometrics donât seem to influence tendon strength Why only doing the goal activity (e.g running) may not be enough for a healthy tendon Why stretching canât decrease tendon stiffness Limitations of shear wave elastography versus measuring mechanical stiffness
Some relevant papers (all open access)
1. Addressing tendon - muscle imbalances2. Comparing different loading volumes and frequencies to achieve tendon adaptations
3. A functional high load program to prevent/treat tendon related pain in athletes
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We had Colin on today to primarily talk about the pragmatic aspects of rehabbing an Achilles tendon in the sporting population.
Part of Colin's PhD thesis was looking at this specific topic. In my opinion, a lot of the researched tendon loading programs aren't pragmatic, are boring, are hard to stick to and just don't seem like they would contribute to performance. Colin's program is NOT like that.
His simple, progressive, performance based and pragmatic tendon and lower extremity program should be used as your "recipe" for care.
Have a look at his paper here that outlines the full rehab program.
More about Dr Colin GriffinColin is a strength and conditioning coach at the UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic with a role that includes the rehabilitation of lower-limb injuries and the delivery running performance services.
He completed a degree in Strength and Conditioning with Setanta College in 2015 and completed Masters Degree in Coaching and Exercise Science in University College Dublin in 2016. He is an IAAF Level 4 certified endurance coach, coach eduaction tutor with Athletics Ireland and an accredited professional member of the Sport Ireland Institute in High Performance Sport Strength and Conditioning.
He has over 15 years experience in high performance sport having represented Ireland at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games in the 50km walk as well as a number of top 12 perofrmances at world and european level. He has also coached other Irish athletes to Olympic level.
In 2011 he founded The Altitude Centre Ireland and pioneered the development of Irelands first residential altitude training centre at the University of Limerick.
His main areas of interest include the rehabilitation of tendinopathies and muscle overload injuries, biomechanics, physiology and athletic development.
Colin is undertaking a PhD on the biomechanics of muscle-tendon interaction at the achilles during exercise, working under JB Morin at the University of CĂŽte dâAzur and in collaboration with SSC Sports Medicine.
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We talk what role Motivational Interviewing plays in working with patients. We talk about how to do it and of course how not to do it.
Have a listen
More about Guillaume:
Graduated from Bordeaux (France) in 2005, Guillaume began his career as a physiotherapist working full-time for a professional football club in France. Since 2007, he has been practicing in private practice, specializing in the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions. He has developed a coordinated practice with general practitioners to provide patients with his expertise in musculoskeletal rehabilitation. He now focuses exclusively on shoulder pathologies.
Guillaume holds an MSc in Physiotherapy and Education from the University of Brighton (UK). During this Master's program, he explored and synthesized literature on the prescription of home therapeutic exercises, shared decision-making and reflective practice which was the subject of his final dissertation.
As a trainer, he teaches Motivational Interviewing, Reflective Clinical Practice, and his course titled "Motivating Patients to Do Their Home Exercises." He also hosts the French podcast "Evidence Based Physio Podcast." Lastly, Guillaume is the co-founder and co-manager of l'Agence EBP, a continuing education organization for healthcare professionals that offers training based on the latest scientific evidence.
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Dr Stu Phillips, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health, shares his expertise on the importance of strength, power and muscle hypertrophy for healthy aging.
As is often the case Stu discusses how simple exercise programming can achieve the physical attributes that help us all age well.
The fast recap is:
strength train 2x/week, 2-4 sets, 5-20 repetitions with an effort of 8/10. progress this over time train power but moving a much lighter faster! eat a little bit of protein within 24 hours of your workout. easy peasy
- something is better than nothing
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Clifton is a Canadian Power Lifter and Chiropractor. I worked with a Clifton a few years ago to help him with his concussion symptoms, low back and hip pain. Working with health care professionals is often interesting. You will feel the pressure to "fix them" but when you get to listening to them you often realize that they have the answers and the knowledge. They just need help and sometimes coaching. I think (IIRC) I was once told that I can't comment on low back pain and lifting until I "fix" elite level powerlifters. Besides this being an absolutely silly and anti-science statement I guess by this standard I can never talk about low back pain again. Because it's true. I don't "fix" anyone. No one does. We work with people where they are and problem solve solutions together. Working with people is often about coaching, reassurance and being there for that person.
Clifton shares his experience with pain, his recovery, how he helps his own patients and his fundamentals of rehab.
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Rachel Hannah talks about her own experience as a runner dealing with Relative Energy Deficiency (REDs) and her recovery from bone stress injuries (BSIs). And Greg (Rachel's former Physiotherapist) talks about his professional failings as a therapist helping Rachel with her first Bone Stress Injury.
If you want help with all things diet, healthy weight and REDs then you can work with Rachel here:
https://rachel-hannah-registered-dietitian.ca1.cliniko.com/bookingsOr See Rachel on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/rachelhannahrd/
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Dr Malfliet was on today discussing her PhD thesis paper which deserves a lot of attention. We discussed her RCT entitlted "Effect of Pain Neuroscience Education Combined With Cognition-Targeted Motor Control Training on Chronic Spinal Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial" where we focused on the importance of nudging into pain (Time Contingent Exercise), reframing motor control exercises as movements that you get comfortable and confident in moving and how to progress these exercises with a graded exposure/activity approach.
We also talked about the role of losing weight (specifically adipose tissue) and its potential role in managing persistent pain. Weight loss is a difficult topic to broach with patients and providers and we touched on these issues. We didn't spend too much time on this contentious topic and its certainly worth exploring more in detail
Our Guest - Anneleen Malfliet
Anneleen Malfliet is an assistant professor and postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is also a member of the Pain in Motion international research group. Her research and clinical interest goes out to chronic pain with a special interest in chronic spinal pain, pain rehabilitation, central sensitization, nutrition and diet. More info at our Pain in Motion website: www.paininmotion.be -
We have Erik Meira (The Science PT) talking ACL injury, the importance or not of strength, whether valgus is a true risk factor for injury or a sign of something else and who technique matters for primary or secondary injury prevention.
Please go to Erik's website not just for his links to what he offers but excellent blogs and resources that really explain complicated topics in clinically applicable ways.
Erik's website is here
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Greg and Alex delved into a wide-ranging discussion about the science of endurance and fitness, with a focus on injury prevention and treatment. They explored the effectiveness of strength training in injury prevention, the inconsistencies in the research, and the debatably importance of stretching in the prevention of injury.
Alex shared his personal experiences with a hamstring injury and his approach to running injury prevention and some of the limitations of our current research base.
As usual, we also talked about the role of technique in injury risk reduction. Greg did get confused and brought up technique and performance so that was nice accidental discussion point.
Alex's Outside Magazine Profile
Alex's website
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Dr Neil Meigh is a physiotherapist and associate professor at Bond University (Gold Coast Australia).
Neil conducted a pragmatic exercise intervention in insufficiently active older adults. The intervention was a hard style kettlebell program in those aged 60-80. These people were not life long athletes but many of them thrived in his program. They got the type of results and improvements in fitness where an independent observer could be skeptical.
We talk details of the program and the resiliency seen in this population while performing high intensity exercise.
Neil's paper is here
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