ClinicalAthlete Podcast

Quinn Henoch & Zak Gabor are back with another episode!  On this show, the CA squad sat down with Peter Malliaras who has done a TON of the research over the last decade on all things tendons and tendinopathy. You’ve probably come across some of his work, even if you didn’t realize it. He’s really helped to push the field forward. The cool thing is that he’s also a clinician, so he understands...

Quinn Henoch & Zak Gabor are back with another episode!  On this show, the Clinical Athlete squad sat down with Kyle Thibodeaux, the owner of Refine PT & Performance. Kyle and the Refine team are one of our newest Clinical Athlete partners, and it’s a match made in heaven; because Refine is a people-first business, that puts their athletes and clients first and provides their staff with re...

Quinn Henoch & Zak Gabor are back with another episode!  The “Honey & Vinegar” segment makes its return, as Zak rants about what annoys him on social media, and Quinn calms the waters with a shout out to coaches and other providers who put their athletes first. And then we talked about a couple of scenarios that were going on with their athletes that had to do with athletes posing the ques...

On this show, Quinn Henoch & Zak Gabor discuss all of the things that make mid stage rehab challenging, and common pitfalls, like: Sticking arbitrarily to rigid timelines and progressing before the athlete is ready Waiting too long to start introducing basic entry points for your exercise categories Not having a clear understanding or criteria for what qualities need to be prioritized Also, we...

On this show, we are joined by Kellen Cannon who is a badass Physical Therapist who loves working with active people and the athletic population within her own business — but, has also been a travel PT for several years now. And that’s the part that we really dive into on this show.  Travel PT seems like this huge unknown to a lot of people, and you definitely hear about all the cons and horror st...

What are the core values of being a Clinical Athlete Provider? On this episode, Quinn Henoch & Zak Gabor discuss what being a Clinical Athlete provider is all about, by sharing the CA Provider Code. And we think adopting these tenets would be beneficial for anyone listening, so hopefully you pick up a lot of gems in this episode. We hope you enjoy! Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athle...

On this episode we welcome a very special guest. Many of you know him already, because he’s been part of the Clinical Athlete community since 2016, and was the podcast co-host for several years. It’s Jared Maynard. He’s back!  We had countless shows in the past with Jared, in which we talked X’s and O’s of training, deep sciency stuff, but this show is a little different. Jared has been on quite t...

On this episode we have the whole Executive Clinical Athlete Provider Mentor Team — Quinn Henoch, Zak Gabor, Steph Allen, and Steph Mundt. We started as the 4 mentors in the Clinical Athlete Provider Certification Program exactly two years ago in March of 2024. Our mentor team has now grown to 8 and counting, but there’s been a ton of growth in many other aspects over the last 2 years. So, we thou...

On this episode Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor talk about a really important topic — the best Ninendo 64 games of all time. We actually do talk about that, but also, we talk about timelines in rehab and communication with our athletes around forecasting and prediction of how rehab should go, how long it will take — all of the things that give us anxiety but that we address on a regular basis in our pr...

On this episode we welcome an awesome guest — The Plyo guy himself and creator of Plusplyos Matt McInnes Watson. Matt is an absolute go-to resource for anything and everything regarding plyometrics, and has had a big influence on us and how we view these things within the Clinical Athlete community.  What the heck does “plyometric” even mean? How can we break down the barriers to entry for coachin...

On this episode we welcome an awesome guest — Ben Cormack. Ben has been a valuable resource to the Clinical Athlete community for years with his practical educational content around pain and exercise. We think both providers, athletes, and clients alike will find this one if chalk full of practical recommendations for managing the pain experience while ultimately achieving your physical activity g...

It’s a Clinical Athlete Diary vibe. When’s the last time you re-read a book or retook a course, instead of buying a new one? Hmm… Also, you ever struggle with tracking your athlete’s symptoms in rehab? Or find it to be a slippery slope to have a goal be for them to have no more pain flare ups? Me too. Let’s talk about it all. Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Applicatio...

Ever found yourself getting stuck in paralysis by analysis with your exercise prescription?  Ugh.. amateur.. Just kidding! We’ve all felt it. You’re in luck —  on this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor dig into why that may happen and some practical approaches to getting past it and providing some baller programs to our athletes.  Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Applic...

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor welcome a special guest onto the show – Matt Kuzdub.  Matt is a tennis coach and a tennis strength & conditioning coach – and I’ll even frame that differently, that’s he’s just an awesome sport and S&C coach and the sport and athletes that he works with happen to be tennis players. He’s also Zak’s tennis and S&C coach and Matt is cur...

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor attempt to bust down the unnecessary mystique of exercise prescription. Have you ever felt like a topic is just out of reach or that you just don’t feel comfortable discussing or implementing with your athletes? Whether it be energy system development, plyometrics, change of direction – well, improving your confidence with any topic doesn’t have to be...

On this show, we welcome a very special guest Asaf Klaf Weisman. Asaf is a clinician and a researcher, who for the better part of the last decade has really challenged some of the conventional wisdom around contemporary pain science, pain neuroscience education, and the biopsychosocial model as a whole. For this convo, we use the widely accepted aphorism of “Nociception is neither necessary nor su...

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor welcome two special guests onto the show – Josh D’Angelo and Rich Ortiz of MovementX Josh is a co-founder of MovementX, which is a company that is providing Physical Therapists with unique employment opportunities that help them both scratch the entrepreneurial itch, but also provide stability within an established and trusted brand. It was really coo...

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor welcome two special guests onto the show – Chris Juneau and Jason Tuori. Chris and Jason are two all-star physical therapists who we consider good friends and who we’ve had the privilege to work with in varying capacities over the years. They are co-hosts of the PT Inquest podcast and teach a continuing education course called Dungeons and Dynamometer...

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor welcome a special guest onto the show – Ramsey Nijem who is the Director of Performance for the men’s basketball team at the University of Kansas. And before that, Ramsey worked for years in the NBA as a head strength & conditioning coach, so needless to say, he knows a thing or two about working with basketball players and teams at the highest le...

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor riff on a few topics that all have to do with how we as providers, and how athletes view injury, rehab, and training as a whole. Have you ever had someone say to you – aren’t you a PT, shouldn’t you be able to fix yourself? Which is funny because Zak talks about how he literally just strained his hamstring 3 days ago, and goes into how he’s managing i...

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor discuss some major upgrades to our Clinical Athlete Provider curriculum – now, the thing is, these upgrades are inspired by feedback and some continued friction points that providers are still experiencing with ExRx in general.  So, there are PLENTY of actionable takeaways from this episode that anyone listening can apply to their athletes right away....

On this show, Zak and Quinn discuss the concept of “Mobility” and share how their thoughts and feelings about this topic have evolved over the last decade, and how that has influenced their exercise prescription. It’s always a hot topic, so hopefully we don’t make too many people mad (JK we love ruffling feathers.) We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete...

On this show, we answer some of your questions about the challenges you’re facing with exercise prescription! We go over: “Overstretching” injuries Are dips dangerous? Hypertrophy rep ranges Tendinopathy and positional considerations And more! We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community Follow us on IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt

On this show, we welcome back the one and only Steph Allen from ACL Resolve to talk about . . you guessed it – ACL rehab!   We go over a TON of things revolving around early to mid stage rehab – what should those first few weeks look like? Are braces good, bad, ugly? When do we start testing? How do different graft types affect progression and timeline? We discuss all of that and more....

We get these questions a lot – “Should I get the CSCS cert?” “Should I get my OCS?” and the like. So, we thought we’d give our thoughts on these and other credentials specifically, but also talk more generally about what ‘learning’ really is and how you can answer these questions for yourself. We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Commun...