JOSPT Insights
The Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy brings you the JOSPT Insights podcast every Monday. On each episode, experienced clinicians and researchers unpack musculoskeletal rehabilitation topics in under 30 minutes. Guests share clinical tips and research discoveries with host Dr Clare Ardern, Editor-in-Chief of JOSPT. Sports physical therapists Dr Chelsea Cooman and Dr Dan Chapman are frequent co-hosts.
Episodes
Ep 284: No more CFT for chronic back pain? With Dr Henrik Bjarke Vægter
The RESTORE trial, published in 2023, put cognitive functional therapy (CFT) on the map as an effective approach for managing chronic, disabling low back pain. Since then, there has been more research supporting CFT, including a large network meta-analysis published in JOSPT in early 2026. In today's episode, we explore the results of the CONFeTTI trial, which tested the CFT+ intervention - combin
Ep 283: Who gets best-practice care for osteoarthritis? With Dr Jodi Young
How many patients describe receiving what sounds like inadequate care for osteoarthritis before they reached your clinic? Osteoarthritis is one of the most common chronic musculoskeletal conditions. When there are many trustworthy, international clinical guidelines that clearly outline what best-practice osteoarthritis care should entail, why are so many patients missing out on high-value care?To
Ep 282: How to explain a musculoskeletal diagnosis, with Marc Perron
There's plenty of debate in the musculoskeletal rehabilitation community about how to clearly communicate with patients about a diagnosis. Clinicians are trying to balance being clear about what the likely cause of the symptoms is without inducing unnecessary worry. How much should you—or even can you—accurately describe the pathology and anatomy of the problem? On the flip side, others have stron
Ep 281: Tackling pain-related fear with exercise therapy, with Drs Courtney Mears and Matthew Heindel
Psychological factors like a person's thoughts, beliefs and emotions can exert a strong influence on rehabilitation outcomes for people with chronic musculoskeletal conditions. When a person has pain, they might feel scared to move or convinced that moving in a certain way will damage their body. Today's discussion focuses on how a person's thoughts about shoulder pain can change over an 8-week ex
Ep 280: Should I worry about noisy joints? With Dr Danilo De Oliveira Silva
Does hip crepitus make a difference to the health of the joint? Does crepitus indicate damage, harm or progression of osteoarthritis? How should clinicians explain hip crepitus and its implications to patients? Today's guest addresses those questions and more in a deep dive on hip crepitus. Dr Danilo De Oliveira Silva (La Trobe University) discusses his JOSPT article, Self-Reported Hip Crepitus Is
Ep 279: Treat the athlete, not her scan, with Pirette Claes & Dr Pim van Klij
Hip morphology and hip injuries have been receiving increasing attention, which is a good thing given their prevalence and impact on athletes' health and performance. Today's guests combine the hip and groin field, with the attention that female athletes deserve to their health and performance.Dr Pim van Klij, who works with Dutch football/soccer powerhouse, Ajax, and Pirette Claes, who is startin
Ep 278: Managing the uncertainty of tendinopathy, with Max Hopes
Tendinopathy will show up regularly in the clinic for many JOSPT Insights listeners. In a person-centred care model, it's important to understand the person with tendinopathy, where they're coming from and what they're experiencing.Today's guest has been studying patients' experience of different types of lower limb tendinopathies. The results might surprise you, in just how complex and variable p
Ep 277: Clinical pearls for thigh muscle rehabilitation (part 2), with Dermot Simpson & Simon Wallace
In last week's episode, Dermot Simpson and Simon Wallace explained the hamstring and rectus femoris rehabilitation pathways that they and their colleagues at the Aspetar Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Hospital have developed to guide daily practice.In using the rehabilitation pathways, Dermot and Simon, and the team have discovered some clinical pearls that help them help the athletes they're w
Ep 276: How to design hamstring and rectus femoris rehabilitation (part 1), with Dermot Simpson & Simon Wallace
If you work with athletes who play any of the football codes, or any field-based sport that involves high-speed running or kicking, you'll surely have hamstring and rectus femoris injuries at the front of your mind. Even if you're not in field-based sports, today's first episode in a 2-part series is a terrific opportunity to review your approach to managing thigh muscle injuries. We're taking a d
Ep 275: Shaping the leadership path in sports medicine teams, with Agnes Makowski
JOSPT Insights episodes often explore what well-functioning teams look like and how they function. Why? Well there's at least 2 important reasons: Effective athlete centred care depends on the sports medicine, rehabilitation and performance team all co-ordinating to help the athlete get the best out of themselves.Working in teams and leading those teams well is not about telling people what to do
Ep 274: Psychologically-informed practice in your hip repertoire, with Dr Kate Jochimsen
The biopsychosocial model of health has been around since the late 1970s. In musculoskeletal rehabilitation, the biopsychosocial model is prominent in clinical practice guidelines for a variety of different conditions, with different approaches advocated for how to provide rehabilitation within the model.Today, Dr Kate Jochimsen guides JOSPT Insights listeners through psychologically-informed reha
Ep 273: Why does my treatment work? With Dr Damian Keter
We're often asking or answering the question "why?" in clinical practice. Why does it hurt? Why does this treatment give me relief? Why is the problem not getting better? Sometimes it's easy to answer why, and sometimes it's not.In today's episode, Dr Damian Keter (US Department of Veterans Affairs) explores and explains musculoskeletal treatment mechanisms. Dr Keter suggests some ways to approach
Ep 272: Moving on from "fear of reinjury", with Cobie Starcevich
Returning to sport after an ACL injury is often framed around a single construct: fear of reinjury. But what if fear doesn't tell the whole story?In today's episode, Chelsea and Marquis speak with Cobie Starcevich about her team's qualitative evidence synthesis exploring how athletes experience and interpret reinjury concerns after ACL injury.The team's findings suggest that what clinicians common
Ep 271: How to predict the future, with Daniel Feller and Dr Alessandro Chiarotto
A patient might ask the clinician: "How long will it take me to get back to sport?" or "How long until I'm feeling back to myself again?". These questions ask the clinician to make a prognosis - to predict the future.
Often we rely on our clinical experience or intuition to answer with a prognosis. Sometimes we might know some prognostic factors, which can give us some big-picture ideas, but they'
Ep 270: Return to run success after ACL reconstruction, with Brendan Butler
Today we're talking about one very important milestone in rehabilitation after an ACL reconstruction: return to running. It's a milestone that sometimes gets overshadowed by its more flamboyant sibling, return to sport.
Brendan Butler joins JOSPT Insights to explore best practice in return to running. Brendan an Irish sports physiotherapist, who is currently working at the Aspetar Orthopaedic & Sp
Ep 269: Don't be quietly competent! With Dr Luc Hébert
All the data point to a growing burden of chronic musculoskeletal pain for populations around the world. Clearly, there is a need to innovate in the way that musculoskeletal care is delivered.
In today's episode, Dr Luc Hébert shares his wealth of experience in musculoskeletal rehabilitation care - as a clinician and as a researcher leading clinical trials of different care models. We explore new
Ep 268: Profile of a sports medicine leader, with Dr Amber Donaldson
There are many outstanding leaders in the sports medicine and musculoskeletal rehabilitation world. How did they get there? What decisions did they make that have got them to where they are today?
In today's episode, Dr Amber Donaldson shares what she is looking for in the next generation of sports medicine leaders, how she has approached developing her own career, and her advice for early-career
Ep 267: Clean air for musculoskeletal health, with Dr Débora Petry Moecke
How often do you think about the air quality in the clinic or outside when you're exercising? Perhaps you live and work in a part of the world where you're fortunate to have good air quality most of the time. For many people though, that's not the case.
Air pollution from wildfires in increasing, and it has serious implications for everyone's health. Today, Dr Débora Petry Moecke (Centre for Heart
Ep 266: One more shoulder press for good measure, with Dr Federico Pozzi
Today, Dr Federico Pozzi (University of Florida), walks Dan and Marquis through his recent paper titled “Addressing Shoulder Weakness in Individuals With Rotator Cuff–Related Shoulder Pain: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis”
In this discussion, Dr Pozzi, Dan & Marquis look at the research regarding rotator cuff-related shoulder pain, asking the question: what type of strengthening interventio
Ep 265: Helping girls rule the rugby world, with Dr Isla Shill
Rugby is seeing consistent growth in popularity and participation. It's also no secret that women's sport is also growing rapidly. Put those together and you enter the exciting and rapidly developing area of women's and girl's rugby.
Today, Dr Isla Shill (University of Victoria) discusses her research work in preventing injuries (including concussion) in girl's rugby. She shares the key components
Ep 264: Treat the person, not the scan! With Dr Thomas Ibounig
Today’s guest—Dr Thomas Ibounig—who led the paper, “Rotator Cuff Imaging Abnormalities in Asymptomatic Shoulders: A systematic review” explores how prevalent abnormal MRI findings are in asymptomatic shoulders, and how the prevalence changes by population.
The systematic review is an exemplar of what musculoskeletal rehabilitation clinicians can learn from accepting what we don’t know!
Chelsea and
Ep 263: Psychologically-informed care for tendinopathy, with Jack Mest
Psychological factors can be prominent for people with tendinopathy–so how do you pick up on them? How might psychological factors guide your plan of care? Today, physiotherapist Jack Mest (University of Canberra), is your guide to understanding how best to screen for important psychological factors, and how to address them in the clinic.
Jack Mest is a PhD candidate, studying psychological factor
Ep 262: Digital rehabilitation - the future is now! With Dr Bruno Saragiotto
The Covid pandemic was an inflection point for many aspects of health care, including turbocharging uptake of virtual models of care.
Telerehabilitation was around before Covid, of course, but the past few years has seen it in a far more prominent place in health care systems. There's also increasing research evaluating different telerehabilitation interventions.
Dr Bruno Saragiotto (University of
Ep 261: Rolling with resistance - learning CFT, with Dr JP Caneiro
In episode 258, Drs Ruth Chang and JP Caneiro explain the results of trials testing cognitive functional therapy (CFT). They explored what CFT is and how it might help people in pain.
In today's episode, Dr Caneiro (Curtin University; Evoolve Pain Care Academy) joins the JOSPT Insights community again to explain what is involved in learning the patient-centred CFT approach.
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Ep 260: Precision physical therapy, with Dr Trevor Lentz
All clinicians know the challenge and opportunity that comes with tailoring clinical decisions to the person in front of you. While it's helpful to have clinical practice guidelines to give you a starting point and to reduce unwarranted variation in practice, of course every patient is different!
Today, Dr Trevor Lentz (Duke University) explains the concept of clinical phenotyping, which is anothe
Ep 259: CFT is a mindset (part 2), with Drs Ruth Chang & JP Caneiro
Last week we explored how people with pain move. Drs Ruth Chang and JP Caneiro explained cognitive functional therapy, or CFT, as an approach to helping people in pain explore their beliefs with curiosity. Today, we take the discussion further, exploring what CFT could do for your practice.
Dr Chang is a postdoctoral research fellow at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, and a specialist muscul
Ep 258: CFT is a mindset, not a treatment modality (part 1), with Drs Ruth Chang & JP Caneiro
If cognitive functional therapy hasn't been on your radar, it's likely only a matter of time. There's an increasing number of trials studying the effects of cognitive functional therapy. In a network meta-analysis published in January 2026 in JOSPT, the authors found that cognitive functional therapy topped a list of 27 different interventions for reducing disability in people with chronic non-spe
Ep 257: Reflecting on contemporary manual therapy, with Dr Jodi Young
Manual therapy is one of those topics that seems to quickly descend to polarised debates in musculoskeletal rehabilitation. Today, we're talking about what manual therapy looks like and does in the 2020s.
Dr Jodi Young explains the mechanisms of manual therapy, the typical effects and why you might think about adding manual therapy as another tool in your physical therapy toolkit. Dr Young is the
Ep 256: REPRISE - Return to sport after complex meniscus injury, with Dr Arielle Giordano
After Lindsey Vonn's sad early exit due to injury from the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, it feels like an apt time to revisit the latest consensus on managing knee injury, and supporting return to sport after complex meniscus injury and surgery.
Today, we continue the conversation on the latest consensus for managing acute and degenerative meniscus tears. We jump into non-surgical treatment
Ep 255: What if clinicians trusted patients in pain? With Joletta Belton and Dr Ben Darlow
Trust is integral to the therapeutic relationship between patients and clinicians in musculoskeletal rehabilitation. But does that trust go both ways?
If you do a deep dive into the literature on trust, you'll find that it almost always talks about whether patients trust clinicians, not if clinicians trust patients. There's also an inherent bias built into the biomedical environment where so calle
Ep 254: Managing sport-related concussion in youth athletes, with Lisbeth Lund Pedersen
Need a refresher on youth sport-related concussion? Today's episode is a rapid review of the epidemiology and best practice for managing youth concussion.
Lisbeth Lund Pedersen (University of Southern Denmark & Danish Society for Sports Physiotherapy) shares the results of the HAAPY study, which involved more than 900 young Danish handball players prospectively recording handball exposure and inju
Ep 253: What's in and what's out of the revised CPG for hip osteoarthritis? With Dr Thomas Koc Jr
The updated clinical practice guideline for managing hip osteoarthritis landed in late 2025. Today, Dan and Marquis speak with lead author Dr Thomas Koc Jr. to highlight what's new, what's changed and what’s currently considered best practice for hip osteoarthritis. Dr Koc shares the upgraded evidence for dry needling, downgraded evidence for ultrasound, and everything in between.
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Ep 252: Getting a good night's sleep, with Dr Mark Shepherd
Sleep: we all know it's essential for function in everyday life, and plays an important role in recovery and managing musculoskeletal pain. How much did you learn about assessing and managing sleep dysfunction in your musculoskeletal degree program?
Today, Dr Mark Shepherd (Bellin College) shares practical tips to help you assess sleep, identify common sleep disorders, and incorporate behavioural
Ep 251: REPRISE - Best practice in managing patellofemoral pain, with Dr Brad Neal
The JOSPT Insights team has been on a hiatus in December. We're very pleased to say we're back and recording new episodes to share with you in 2026. We're back in your feed with new episodes from mid-January. Until then, we're sharing a couple of our most impactful episodes of 2025. Enjoy!
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Patellofemoral pain can affect anyone at any age, which mean you're likely to
Ep 250: REPRISE - Saving the meniscus, with Dr Arielle Giordano
The JOSPT Insights team has been on a hiatus in December. We're very pleased to say we're back and recording new episodes to share with you in 2026. We're back in your feed with new episodes from mid-January. Until then, we're sharing a couple of our most impactful episodes of 2025. Enjoy!
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Ep 249: Calf injuries—complex, not complicated, with Dr Brady Green
Calf strains are challenging for athletes and clinicians to manage—with uncertain return to play times and risks for reinjury if they're not managed well.
Dr Brady Green (University of Notre Dame, Perth, Australia) shares his research and clinical expertise on muscle strains in elite and subelite athletes, including from his previous work in elite Australian football at the Essendon Football Club.
Ep 248: Shoulder pain—what’s in a name? With Dr Amy McDevitt
Over the past decade, the term rotator cuff–related shoulder pain (RCRSP) has gained traction as a more accurate, patient-centered way to describe shoulder pain.
In this episode, Dr Amy McDevitt (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, University of Colorado) joins Dan Chapman and Marquis Sanabrais to unpack why shifting from structural labels like impingement or tendinopathy toward RCRSP
Ep 247: Shaping a career of influence, with Dr Seth Peterson
Some of the most powerful drivers of change in musculoskeletal rehabilitation aren’t researchers or administrators—but clinicians working shoulder-to-shoulder with their peers.
These so-called "local opinion leaders" often shape practice more effectively than top-down mandates or distant guidelines. And they're more than simply influencers or savvy social media marketers.
In today's episode, Dr Se
Ep 246: MTSS needs a new name - make no bones about it, with Laura Anderson
Pain near the posteromedial tibia is common in running and jumping athletes. Laura Anderson, physiotherapist and PhD candidate, is challenging the diagnostic labels "shin splits" and "medial tibial stress syndrome", and suggesting a new term: "load-induced medial leg pain" (LIMP).
In today's episode, Laura explores ways to improve how you diagnose and manage shin pain in athletes, including how yo
Ep 245: Pelvic health and performing artists, with Jessica Frydenberg
Over half of performing artists and artistic athletes report pelvic floor symptoms. Up to 80% of female artistic athletes report pelvic floor symptoms, yet many believe these issues—like urinary leakage during performance—are par for the course, part of the job.
Today, Jessica Frydenberg explains who performing artists are, why they are particularly susceptible to pelvic floor symptoms, and what t
Ep 244: How physical therapists get paid, with Dr Chris Bise
Who pays you, and how, for your work as a physical therapist?
How health care is funded has implications for the way you work, and for the care that you can provide for patients. Societies all around the world are grappling with complex decisions about health care and how it is funded. Even more so as changing populations place different demands on health care systems, and as the health work force
Ep 243: Health economics explainer for the clinician (part 2), with Dr Codie Primeau
Welcome back to this explainer on health economics analyses in musculoskeletal rehabilitation.
In part 1, Dr Codie Primeau explained the things you're looking for when reading a health economics analysis, to decide whether it's a good quality analysis. That's important because a good quality analysis can help you make decisions about whether the intervention being studied is worth considering.
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Ep 242: Health economics explainer for the clinician (part 1), with Dr Codie Primeau
Whether you work in a solo private practice, or a large health network, no doubt you're considering costs when it comes to deciding what to change and perhaps what to implement - or de-implement - in your practice. Perhaps you're in the position of making decisions on behalf of a health service or you are trying to quantify and communicate the costs and benefits of treatments you study in a resear
Ep 241: Chatbots for orthopaedic PT - ready for prime time? With Drs Mark Vorensky & Daniel Peredo
Wondering about whether large language models (generative AI) like ChatGPT, Co-Pilot or Claude, to name just a few, could add value to your clinical practice?
Drs Mark Vorensky and Daniel Peredo (Rutgers University; NYU Langone Health) discuss the field of 'prompt engineering' - the approach to structuring and crafting the instructions (a.k.a. prompt) given to a generative AI model, to describe th
Ep 240: Swapping the gym for the field - return-to-run after injury, with Andrew Mitchell
How do you think about supporting athletes to return to running after injury?
Andrew Mitchell is someone who has thought about it a lot, and refined his approach over years of practice in top football/soccer. In today's episode, Andrew outlines the 5 elements of his criteria-based approach.
Andrew is a sports physiotherapist and strength & conditioning practitioner with experience working in the h
Ep 239: Patellofemoral pain research round-up, with Drs Erin Macri & Harvi Hart
What's the latest thinking in managing patellofemoral pain?
Drs Erin Macri (Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, The Netherlands) and Harvi Hart (Michigan State University) join JOSPT Insights ahead of the International Patellofemoral Research Network meeting to share the latest in patellofemoral research, and what it means for clinical practice.
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Ep 238: Walking back to musculoskeletal health, with Dr Tash Pocovi
Recurrent back pain is common, and debilitating for some people. What if there was a simple, low cost way to prevent these recurring flare ups of back pain?
Dr Tash Pocovi (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) explains the research she's been leading to test a walking + education program for preventing recurrent back pain.
Dr Pocovi's research focuses on improving how low back pain is managed,
Ep 237: REPRISE - what's new in treating Achilles tendinopathy, with Dr Ruth Chimenti
The latest update to the midportion Achilles tendinopathy Clinical Practice Guideline is live!
Dr Ruth Chimenti is a co-author of the updated clinical practice guideline, “Achilles Pain, Stiffness, and Muscle Power Deficits: Midportion Achilles Tendinopathy Revision 2024”, and joins JOSPT Insights to share the key updates relevant for your practice.
Dr Chimenti highlights the most important change
Ep 236: REPRISE - there's more to the ankle than the ATFL, with Liz Bayley
The anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) and the Achilles tendon captures much of our ankle attention. As JOSPT Insights listeners know, there's plenty more to the ankle than the ATFL.
Today, Liz Bayley shares her approach to diagnosing, managing and ideally, preventing ankle pain in active people. Liz covers diagnosing the problem, where imaging fits, and how to support return to function, includ
Ep 235: REPRISE - best practice for managing rotator cuff tendinopathy, with Dr François Desmeules
Clinicians appreciate the value of a trustworthy clinical practice guideline for helping guide decisions in practice.
Professor François Desmeules (University of Montréal) led an international team of shoulder experts who synthesised the latest evidence on diagnosing and non-surgically managing rotator cuff tendinopathy. Today he shares the headlines of the CPG and explains how the guideline group
Ep 234: Return to sport after meniscus injury, with Dr Arielle Giordano
Today, we continue the conversation on the latest consensus for managing acute and degenerative meniscus tears.
We jump into non-surgical treatment, and all the return to sport considerations for athletes and active people with meniscus injury.
Dr Arielle Giordano (University of Delaware) shares the results of the EU-US Meniscus Rehabilitation Consensus.
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Ep 233: Using clinical practice guidelines—the art and science, with Dr Maggie Horn
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are an incredible resource for clinicians of all experience levels—synthesizing all the research on a topic and packaging it into bite-sized recommendations and flow charts. But how often are clinicians adhering to these guidelines?
In today’s episode, Dr Maggie Horn (Duke University) walks us through her research team’s work to assess if, how, and when clinicia
Ep 232: Exercise therapy "wears down" my joint - myth or fact? With Dr Alessio Bricca
No doubt you've come across people using the analogy of a broken down machine to describe an osteoarthritic joint. Or perhaps that too much loading on the joint is responsible for wearing it out - assuming that each joint has a finite number of movements in its lifetime.
You've probably also heard from patients who are concerned that the exercise therapy you prescribe might do more harm to their a
Ep 231: Training through the adolescent growth spurt (part 2), with Dr Sara Lynn Terrell
Today is part 2 of a 2-part chat about hip health and training load for the youth athlete. Last episode, Dr Sara Lyn Terrell (Florida Southern College) discussed the developing hip, and the important distinction between primary cam morphology and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome.
Many athletes have a bony bump on their hip that doesn't cause any problems - it's the morphology in combination w
Ep 230: Training for healthy hips in adolescent athletes (part 1), with Dr Sara Lynn Terrell
The hip health of youth athletes as their skeletons grow and mature while the athlete copes with the physical and mental stressors of sport and life, has been receiving renewed attention.
Today's episode of JOSPT Insights is part 1 of a 2-part chat about training load and the youth athlete's hip. We discuss how primary cam morphology and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome might develop.
Dr Sara
Ep 229: Best practice in managing patellofemoral pain, with Dr Brad Neal
Patellofemoral pain can affect anyone at any age, which mean you're likely to come across it in your clinical career. What is best practice in managing patellofemoral pain?
Today, Dr Brad Neal (Queen Mary University of London) walks us through how to apply the best research to your practice.
Dr Neal has worked for over a decade in elite sport, private and public health care settings as a specialis
Ep 228: The worst pain is unexplained, with Dr Paul Mintken
Pain is often what prompts patients to seek the care of a musculoskeletal rehabilitation clinician.
In today's episode, Dr Paul Mintken guides listeners through different ways to work with a person to help make sense of, and explain, unexplained pain.
Dr Mintken (Hawai'i Pacific University) is a board-certified Orthopaedic Clinical Specialist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic and
Ep 227: SPORTS CORNER: Concussion challenge in the UFC, with Dr Olivia Abdoo
In Part 2 of our conversation with Dr Olivia Abdoo (Ultimate Fighting Championship), we dive deeper into one of the most common injuries in mixed martial arts (MMA) - concussion.
Dr Abdoo's experience treating UFC athletes provides an insight into working with athletes for whom skills including wrestling, striking, and grappling are crucial to performing well.
How to approach educating the athlete
Ep 226: A CALMeR Cuff, with Dr Kathryn Fahy
Given how common rotator cuff tears are, chances are you will work with someone who has a tear at some point in your career.
Do you know what patients will want from their rehabilitation? Are you confident with your approach to managing rotator cuff tears?
Today, Dr Kathryn Fahy, physiotherapist and researcher from Aspetar Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha discusses the CALMeR Cuff path
Ep 225: OA in the ballet (dancer)? with Dr Melanie Fuller
A mention of pre-professional or professional dance might conjure thoughts of relentless, gruelling training hours, incredible performances and bodies pushed through high musculoskeletal demands.
Dr Melanie Fuller (University of Southern Queensland) has devoted her clinical career of almost 20 years to working with dancers - helping them stay healthy and performing well - and she has a similar foc
Ep 224: Saving the meniscus, with Dr Arielle Giordano
Tune in today for the latest consensus on rehabilitation approaches for people who have had meniscus surgery.
Orthopaedic surgeons and physical therapists from Europe and the US debated the best research evidence, and brought extensive clinical experience to the table, ultimately producing a 2-part series of summary papers.
Dr Arielle Giordano (University of Delaware) was one of the physical thera
Ep 223: SPORTS CORNER: Ultimate Physical Therapy for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), with Dr Olivia Abdoo
In the return of Sports Corner, Dr Olivia Abdoo chats all things UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) and MMA (mixed martial arts).
UFC combines wrestling, grappling and striking, which makes for complex demands that contribute to complex injury epidemiology. Whether working with a Championship fighter or a recreational martial arts athlete, Dr Abdoo provides excellent guidance for clinicians who
Ep 222: Where to next for research on shoulder pain? with Kristian Lyng
Researchers are increasingly partnering with patients, clinicians and others who use research to design, conduct, report and disseminate research studies. Today we hear about a conversation that involved over 600 patients, clinicians and carers, who were supported to nominate their top priorities for research on shoulder pain.
Kristian Lyng (physiotherapst, PhD student at Aalborg University's Depa
Ep 221: Does it matter how you apply spinal manipulative therapy? With Dr Casper Nim
There's a range of different interventions at your disposal when managing spine pain.
Today we're focusing on spinal manipulative therapy, and asking questions like: does it matter how you apply a manipulation to get the best outcomes for the patient?
Answering the questions is Dr Casper Nim from the University of Southern Denmark. Casper is an Associate Professor, chiropractor, and senior researc
Ep 220: There's more to the ankle than the ATFL, with Liz Bayley
The anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) and the Achilles tendon captures much of our ankle attention. As JOSPT Insights listeners know, there's plenty more to the ankle than the ATFL.
Today, Liz Bayley shares her approach to diagnosing, managing and ideally, preventing ankle pain in active people. Liz covers diagnosing the problem, where imaging fits, and how to support return to function, includ
Ep 219: Are women less likely than men to return to sport after hip arthroscopy? With Dr Matthew King
Hip arthroscopy is a common surgical procedure in athletes and active people, and it's not surprising that this clinical population is focused on returning to sport. Today, Dr Matthew King, physiotherapist and Senior Lecturer from La Trobe University's Discipline of Physiotherapy in Melbourne, Australia, discussed return to sport outcomes after hip arthroscopy.
Dr King led a team that synthesised
Ep 218: Putting the horse before the myofascial pain cart, with Dr Chad Cook
Myofascial pain syndrome is common - affecting somewhere around 1 in every 5 people. Yet there is plenty of debate about what causes myofascial pain syndrome, how to diagnose it, and even whether myofascial pain syndrome is a primary condition.
Today, Professor Chad Cook (Duke University) discusses whether it is even possible to differentiate myofascial pain syndrome from other pain conditions, an
Ep 217: Beast mode to build bone, with Dr Belinda Beck
Postmenopausal women can build some serious bone AND stay safe with the right instruction and the right load.
What’s the right load? Dr Belinda Beck can answer that, and in today's episode, she takes us through the
results of the LIFTMOR trial. With the right instruction and supervision, postmenopausal women can be lifting 85% of their 1 repetition maximum safely, and make a substantial change in
Ep 216: Latest clinical recommendations for rotator cuff tendinopathy, with Dr François Desmeules
Clinicians appreciate the value of a trustworthy clinical practice guideline for helping guide decisions in practice.
Professor François Desmeules (University of Montréal) led an international team of shoulder experts who synthesised the latest evidence on diagnosing and non-surgically managing rotator cuff tendinopathy. Today he shares the headlines of the CPG and explains how the guideline group
Ep 215: Assessing pain in athletes, with Ciarán Purcell
How do you approach assessing pain when you're working with athletes? What tools do you find most helpful?
Today, sports physiotherapist and researcher, Ciarán Purcell (University of Limerick, Ireland) describes the project he is leading to gather consensus from athletes and sports medicine & rehabilitation clinicians about how best to assess athletes' pain. Listen to the end to learn about how yo
Ep 214: What's new in treating Achilles tendinopathy? with Dr Ruth Chimenti
The latest update to the midportion Achilles tendinopathy Clinical Practice Guideline is hot off the presses!
Dr Ruth Chimenti is a co-author of the updated clinical practice guideline, “Achilles Pain, Stiffness, and Muscle Power Deficits: Midportion Achilles Tendinopathy Revision 2024”, and joins JOSPT Insights to share the key updates relevant for your practice.
Dr Chimenti highlights the most i
Ep 213: What women want to know after knee injury, with Melissa Haberfield
Did you know that only about 10% of the participants in sports medicine and sports physical therapy research are women?
When people are under-represented in research, it might mean that clinicians and researchers miss key concerns of women and girls when working with them to achieve the best outcomes of treatment.
Melissa Haberfield - physiotherapist and PhD candidate at the La Trobe Sports and Ex
Ep 212: REVISITED: "Is running bad for my knees?", with Dr Jean François Esculier
You don't have to go far to find a media story warning people off the high impacts of running, especially on concrete, and claiming that running is no good for your knees.
Maybe you've had someone in the clinic who worries that running will wear their joints out? Today's guest has dedicated his career to helping runners stay healthy and running for life, and is adamant that running is a great phys
Ep 211: REVISITED: Gimme an N-M-E-S (stimulator)! With Drs Elanna Arhos & Naoaki Ito
In today's part 2 of an NMES masterclass from Dr Elanna Arhos (Northwestern University) and Dr Naoaki Ito (University of Wisconsin - Madison), we're getting into the nitty gritty of how to support patients to get the most out of a very beneficial intervention. Drs Arhos and Ito, and their team have tested a mix of common stimulators available on the market today, and are here to share the results
Ep 210: REVISITED: Dose your NMES for success, with Drs Elanna Arhos & Naoaki Ito
Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) hasn't quite had the coverage it deserves, especially when one considers the strength of evidence supporting NMES as a musculoskeletal rehabilitation intervention
Today, Drs Elanna Arhos (Northwestern University) and Naoaki Ito (University of Wisconsin - Madison) are re-visiting how NMES is applied in sports clinical practice. Get the low-down on why you
Ep 209: REVISITED: Saying "hasta la vista" to injections for tendinopathy, with Dr Robert-Jan de Vos
Dr Robert-Jan de Vos, sports physician and associate professor at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, dives deep into all things Achilles tendinopathy.
In part 2 of this series, Dr de Vos covers the multitude of options for treatment, outside of exercise therapy. Should you and the patient consider corticosteroid injections, PRP injections, heel lifts, shockwave, NSAIDs, or surge
Ep 208: REVISITED: Getting your tendinopathy diagnosis and treatment right, with Dr Robert-Jan de Vos
Dr Robert-Jan de Vos, sports physician and associate professor at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, dives deep into all things Achilles tendinopathy. As lead author of the Dutch Multidisciplinary Guideline on Achilles Tendinopathy (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34187784/), he shares the key messages from this in-depth review.
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Ep 207: The intervention effect or the vibe? With Dr Giacomo Rossettini
When patients improve following treatment, how much can be attributed to the intervention delivered, and how much is due to contextual factors and nonspecific effects that lie outside of the clinician's control?
Dr. Giacomo Rossettini joins the podcast again as a co-author of a paper (link below) that answers that very question.
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Ep 206: Managing musicians' musculoskeletal health, with Marianne Roos
Musicians and athletes might sometimes appear to exist in very different cultures. And yet, the single-minded focus, thousands of hours of practice, and high training loads on their musculoskeletal systems mean that musicians and athletes probably have more in common than they have differences. At least from a musculoskeletal rehabilitation perspective.
Today's guest is Marianne Roos - a former cl
Ep 205: Returning to college sport after ACL reconstruction, with Dr Cortez Brown
When it comes to serious injury, like an ACL tear, in college sport, how many young athletes return to their previous level of performance?
Today's guest led a team that has done the hard yards of synthesising all the available data to find an answer.
Dr Cortez Brown is a junior orthopaedic surgery resident at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre.
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