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Dr. Allison Davis is a sports PT and business owner, who spent over10 years working in a sports clinic setting. Afterwards, she transitioned to also working as a PT for NWSL Kansas City Current from their inaugural season to 2023. Today, she is the business owner for Game Changer Physical Therapy in Kansas City, Kansas.
Game Changer Physical Therapy: If you're in the Kansas City, Missouri or Kansas area, this is the place to be!
https://www.gamechangerptkc.com/
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Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5708-adding-the-sun
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Matt Midkiff is a sports PT/ director and owner of Foothills Sports Medicine (Gilbert-Mesa) in Arizona. Aside from his clinical work with athletes (from youth soccer player to the professional men's team in the valley, Phoenix Rising FC), he's also a long-time youth soccer coach. Today's episode is about the incredible cardiac arrest recovery involving one of his twin daughters, Pyper. He shares the event from her collapse on the soccer pitch, hospitalization, defibrillator/pacemaker (also for her twin) to his twins return to playing on the soccer pitch. Story reiterates the importance of CPR/AED and hopes to shed more light on cardiac screening in our youth athletes.
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Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5708-adding-the-sun
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Dr. Patrick Carton is a surgeon and director of orthopaedic sports medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)-Ireland. He specializes in the surgical management of the athletic hip joint; He treats conditions from hip impingement/labral tears, hip instability, hip dysplasia, to hip arthroscopy and primary and revision hip replacement.
We discussed the truth behind the start of St. Patrick's Day (sorry for my Irish folks!), his journey from becoming a surgeon, creating the hip and groin clinic to his role as the Director at UPMC- Ireland. And *truly*, essential surgical hip topics: male and female hip differences, hip impingement vs instability, adolescent hip considerations, and joint preservation surgery for athletes with arthritic hips.
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Music:
Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5708-adding-the-sun
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Dr. Oluseun Olufade is a board certified orthopedic and sports medicine physician in Atlanta, Georgia. Of his many roles, he works as an Assistant Professor of Orthopedics at Emory School of Medicine and serves various athletic organizations such as, U.S. Soccer, Atlanta Hawks, Emory University and Northview High School. We discussed Atlanta, realities of a sports medicine doctor in America, and avulsion injuries/fractures in adolescent athletes. And we reviewed a unique case study presented at the Isokinetic Football Conference (2022): "How displaced is too displaced? An Avulsion fracture in an adolescent footballer? "
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Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Dr. Mariah Bullock is a sports psychologist for the Canadian WNT and OL Reign in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She shares her transition from professional soccer to psychology, World Cup experience with the Canadian WNT, becoming the first sports psychologist in the NWSL, mental health/mental performance, and how to better understand and relate to injured athletes.
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Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Dr. Nick van de Horst is a PT and rehab coordinator for PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivise league -- the top football league in the Netherlands. After his playing days, he continued his sports medicine work, completing a PhD in hamstring injuries. We talked Netherlands, PT schooling process, work experiences (working for various football clubs and at the KNVB Sports Medical Centre), rehab coordinator role for PSV Eindhoven, and hamstring considerations for amateur and professional athletes.
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Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Theron Enns is an athletic trainer and Senior Director of Athlete Health and Performance for Real Salt Lake, a top professional soccer club in Major League Soccer. He shares his journey from the early days of MLS, athletic training, brief stints as an athletic trainer with U.S. Soccer and observer for the National Women's Soccer League. And, he provides great tips and considerations for medical professionals pursuing opportunities in a professional setting.
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Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Przemyslaw Tokarek is the Head of Physiotherapist for top Poland professional club, Pogon Szczecin. He shares his work experiences from Spain to Qatar -- Aspetar, Qatar National Team and World Cup experience -- to finally return back to Poland.
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Music:
Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Dr. Eirini Manthou is the Head of Nutrition for Greek professional football club, Olympiacos (Team B and the academy). She holds a PhD in Human Nutrition as well a masters in nutrition with a specialization in sports. She is also an educator in the online course “Sport Nutrition in Soccer” in the International Soccer Science; Performance Federation (www.isspf.com) and has contributed to a number of publications.
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Music:
Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Dr. Vivek Nigam is the head of sports medicine & physiotherapist for Jamshedpur FC, a football club in the Indian Super League. He is currently pursuing his PhD in physical therapy, and has a masters in physical therapy, with specialization in sports.
Vivek Nigam on social:
https://linktr.ee/viveknigam
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Music:
Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Dr. Zoran Bahtijarević is a Croatian doctor whose journey started in small town, Zagreb, but now resides in Switzerland, where he serves as UEFA's chief medical officer. He has held many different roles within UEFA, and his prior work experience includes: 30 years of experience working as a pediatric surgeon and 20 years as the Croatian National Team doctor.
UEFA Medical:
https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/protecting-the-game/medical/European football steps up to save lives:
https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/027d-1733a9b7fbdb-b31c4323952c-1000--football-steps-up-to-save-lives/
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Music:
Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Álvaro Collado is a sports scientist and physical therapist who works as the U-23 rehabilitation coach for Juventus F.C. in the Serie A.
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Music:
Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Dr. Holly Silvers-Granelli is a physical therapist and researcher with a PhD in Applied Physiology and Biomechanics at the University of Delaware. She's published over 60 peer reviewed articles on injury mitigation and biomechanics assessment of injury risk. She's also the owner of Velocity Physical therapy, an outpatient orthopedic private practice focused on injury mitigation in athletes.
She does work for many of the professional leagues, from MLS, MLB, NFL, etc. And her soccer work includes being a member of the United States Soccer Federation's Medical Team, a chair of Major League Soccer's Medical Assessment Research Committee, and a research advisory to FIFA's female football research initiative.
https://www.velocitysportspt.com
https://twitter.com/hollysilverspt
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Music:
Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Dr. Carles Pedret is a Spanish sports medicine doctor whose primary focus is on muscle and tendon injuries. He received his doctor in medicine and surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a masters degree in sports traumatology and high performance. Today, he works primarily as a freelance external advisor to multiple professional teams around the world: English Premier League, English Championship, Italian Series A, Spanish Liga, China Superleague, Belgium Pro league, German Bundesliga, NBA teams and much more!
He discusses how his football passion lead to him studying sports medicine, his unique path to working as an external advisor for professional teams, muscle and tendon considerations, and rectus femoris injury clinical pearls.
https://carlespedret.com/
https://www.instagram.com/drpedret/
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Music:
Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Dr. Gyaran Ibrahim Abubakar is a sports medicine doctor who has been the Nigerian Senior National Team doctor since 2010. He completed his medical school in Nigeria, and a master's in Science focused in Sports and Exercise Medicine and in business administration in the UK.
He shares medical schooling and treatment considerations in Nigeria, his decision to pursue further education in Europe and how that prepared him for his national team experiences. He also discusses the medical team preparation with the national team and FIFA leading up to a World Cup, how to manage conflict within club vs. national team, and the necessary skills to work at the highest level.Follow for updates:
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Music:
Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Andrea Mosler is an Australian sports physical therapist and researcher who completed her PhD on risk factors for hip/groin pain in professional male footballers. She has worked 3 Olympics and spent 4.5 years as a senior physical therapist at Aspetar Sports Medicine Hospital in Doha, Qatar. Today she works as a research fellow at LaTrobe University, splitting her time in clinic and research/continuing education.
She shares how her early experiences afforded her opportunities in the sports world, Olympic experiences, PhD work in Qatar, how to invest in relationships in the sports community, and clinical topics (return to play progression, assessment, and injury prevention) when managing groin injuries.
Articles: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/amosler
Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreabmosler?lang=en
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Dr. Adam Weir is a British sports medicine physician, who has a PhD on the treatment of groin injuries in athletes. He was the lead author on the Doha Agreement on terminology and Definitions in Groin Pain in Athletes. He is the visiting sports doctor at Aspertar and medical coordinator of the Erasmus University Hospital Academic Centre for Groin Injuries in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and works at the Sports and Exercise Clinic in Haarlem.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamweirsports
Return to Sport After Criteria-Based Rehabilitation of Acute Adductor Injuries in Male athletes: Return to Sport After Criteria-Based Rehabilitation of Acute Adductor Injuries in Male Athletes: A Prospective Cohort Study - Andreas Serner, Adam Weir, Johannes L. Tol, Kristian Thorborg, Sean Lanzinger, Roald Otten, Per Hölmich, 2020 (sagepub.com)
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Amy Dirks is a Sports Dietitian-Nutritionist and Wellness Consultant, with a strength and conditioning background. She was the former dietitian-nutritionist for MLS Sporting KC and the current founder of Amy Dirks Sports Nutrition.
She shares how she essentially developed the professional soccer nutritional program, the food recovery mistakes many athletes make, how to eat to reach peak performance, and food modifications for injured athletes.
Nutritional Programs:
https://amydirkssportsnutrition.com
https://www.instagram.com/amydirkssn
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Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Dr. Francesco Della Villa (MD) is an Italian sports and exercise medicine physician who leads the Education and Research Department at the Isokinetic Group in Italy. He completed his medical degree at -- one of, or if not -- the oldest school in the Western world, the University of Bologna. And that followed with a sports and exercise medicine residency and a fellowship focused on movement analysis. He shares ways clinicians can best implement research into movement assessments, ACL considerations, pointers for every early clinicians, and considerations when working professional athletes.
Isokinetic Medical Group: www.isokinetic.comFootball Medicine Conference in 2022: www.footballmedicinestrategies.com
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Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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Dr. Joan Steidinger is a licensed clinical and sports psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area with over thirty years of experience working with professional and amateur athletes. She's trained in executive coaching, performance issues, injured athletes, clinical issues, and much more. But, her specialty is working with female teens and professional athletes. She provides tips for medical providers to recognize signs of abuse, how to communicate delicate topics with family, and strategies when relating to injured athletes.
Check out her two books on Amazon:
Stand Up and Shout Out: Women's Fight for Equal Pay, Equal Rights, and Equal Opportunities in Sports (2020): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081Y85TR5/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete (2014):
https://www.amazon.com/Sisterhood-Sports-Collaborate-Steidinger-2014-10-10/dp/B01K0S1KEQ
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