JOSPT Insights

Foot and ankle surgeon, Dr Casey Humbyrd, returns to JOSPT Insights to share the surgeon’s perspective on Achilles tendon repair. What does she consider when helping patients to make a decision about surgery or no surgery? How does she perform the surgical repair, and why is she so fastidious with post-op restrictions? Dr Humbyrd is a champion for physical therapy, and underscores wound care, pers...

Assessing how people move and helping them to reach their goals for moving is your bread and butter as a clinician. Today we're learning from 2 leaders in sports biomechanics: Drs Elanna Arhos and Stephanie Di Stasi from the Ohio State University. We discuss how to make sense of a biomechanics research article, how to translate what you read to clinical practice, and the minimum biomechanics set-u...

Luke Keaney's career at the top level of Gaelic football was cut short at the age of 24 by hip pain and injury. After 5 hip surgeries and countless hours of hard work in the gym and rehabilitation room, Luke has switched his focus from Gaelic football to rowing, and has his eye on the Paris Olympics. While Luke's career in sport has continued in a different guise, he feels that things might have b...

Have you ever found yourself feeling uncertain or confused when choosing a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM)? Today we're talking about the hallmarks of a PROM for people with patellofemoral pain. Physical therapist, educator and researcher, Professor Lisa Hoglund, fills in the gaps to help us find the promise in PROMs. ------------------------- RESOURCES Construct validity, reliability, res...

Maybe you think of health literacy as the building blocks of knowing how to access the healthcare system, and knowing what to do when you have a cold? Today, Dr Rachel Harris is guiding us as we consider our collective health literacy of the particular health, wellbeing and performance needs of female athletes. Dr Harris represented Australia at the Olympics as a swimming athlete, and was the Chie...

Dr Lionel Chia joins Chelsea and Dan to bring his 2022 article in JOSPT, Beginning With The End In Mind: Implementing Backward Design To Improve Sports Injury Rehabilitation Practices , to life. Lionel outlines 4 categories to consider when planning return to sport and performance: (1) deconstructing goals, (2) determining key performance indicators, (3) assessing the challenge point, and (4) usin...

As a JOSPT Insights listener, you already know programs like the FIFA 11+, the PEP program and the GetSet app for reducing injury rates in team sports like soccer (football) and handball. When you're working with athletes, coaches and parents, how easy is it to get them set up with a warm-up program that athletes can follow and stick to a few times a week? Today's chat might just give you a tool t...

The YAHiR (Young Athletes' Hip Research) Collaborative takes over the JOSPT Insights podcast today with a deep dive into best practice for imaging the painful hip. What is the best approach to imaging for young people with hip pain? When do you reach for radiographs? What are the pros and cons of MRI for hip pain? And how do you interpret and act on the information you gather from the scan? Never...

In part 2 of this JOSPT Insights x JOSPT Cases collaboration, clinicians Dr Cody Mansfield and Dr Laura Cutler, with Dr Jake Bleacher continue discussing how they used graded motor imagery to help a patient with low back pain. Treatment sessions 3 and 4 include breakthroughs, progressions, graded movement exposure, and mindfulness training. We discuss who finds pain neuroscience most helpful, and...

In part 1 of this JOSPT Insights x JOSPT Cases collaboration, clinicians Dr Cody Mansfield, Dr Laura Cutler, and Dr Jake Bleacher review their approach to supporting a patient with chronic low back pain. First, they review the history, clinical assessment, and the interventions performed over the first 2 treatment sessions. Next, the clinical team reviews how they decided when to leave the biomech...

Melissa Haberfield, very patiently, takes Chelsea and Dan through all things Australian Rules Football. From the field, scoring, and rules, to the punching, kicking, and tackling required to play—it’s a crash course in the game of footy. Melissa breaks down the demands of the sport, the common injuries, and key things for clinicians to keep in mind when working with Australian football athletes. -...

Kids are resilient, but that doesn't mean they don't struggle with pain. Sometimes it can feel daunting to know how best to support a child in pain, and their family, as everyone navigates school, sport and other environments. Physiotherapist, researcher and educator at University of Technology Sydney, Dr Joshua Pate, is on a mission to help kids and clinicians work better together when it comes t...

Look no further for the latest information on assessing, diagnosing, treating and making a prognosis about, lateral elbow pain! CPG authors Dr Ann Lucado and Dr Joseph “Matt” Day review the key take-aways from the CPG. They share the important differential diagnoses to consider, the outcome measures to use, and impairment measures to track. Clinicians will love the clever approach to classifying t...

Dr Mitchell Selhorst continues his chat about spondylosis/spondylolysis/spondylolisthesis in adolescent athletes. After reviewing the who, why, and what in part 1, today’s episode is full of clinical pearls about rehabilitation and return to sport. Dr Selhorst presents a 3-stage approach to rehabilitation, and shares how he thinks differently when planning rehabilitation for an acute vs. a chronic...

Today, Dr Mitchell Selhorst dives in the world of pediatric spondylosis/spondylolysis/spondylolisthesis injuries with Chelsea and Dan. And it’s not all about female gymnasts! You can expect about 3 in every 10 adolescents with low back pain to have a spondy. So, knowing the population, risk factors, and key things to look for on examination are incredibly important. Dr Selhorst reviews the epidemi...

Two gentle giants of physiotherapy/physical therapy research and practice join JOSPT Insights today. Associate Professor Peter Kent and Professor Peter O'Sullivan (Curtin University, Perth, Australia) share, on behalf of the whole trial team, the results of their RESTORE trial. Does cognitive functional therapy herald a revolution in how clinicians can support people to live well with back pain? L...

Someone walks into your clinic with a sore shoulder. Are you dealing with a stiff shoulder? A rotator cuff problem? The acromioclavicular joint? Or something else entirely? Today, Dr Angela Cadogan (PT, PhD) - Specialist Physiotherapist and clinical consultant - is helping you hone your clinical reasoning in differential diagnosis of subacromial pain. Dr Cadogan shares her practical approach to di...

Dr Rick Joreitz (University of Pittsburgh) joins Chelsea and Dan to chat all things ice hockey. From the unique demands on the hip in all planes of motion—c’mon, we couldn’t do a podcast about ice hockey without talking hips!—to the acute and chronic injuries, helpful manual therapy tips, and ways to progress a return to the ice. Dr Joreitz has got your key questions covered. Who would have though...

The YAHiR (Young Athletes Hip Research) Collaborative take over the JOSPT Insights podcast today with the second part of our explainer on hip dysplasia. Drs Inger Mechlenburg and Julie Jacobsen cover the key elements of an effective treatment program, when hip preserving surgery is an option, and how to balance loading, exercise and information to help people with hip dysplasia to stay active and...

The YAHiR (Young Athletes' Hip Research) Collaborative takes over the JOSPT Insights podcast today with Part 1 of a 2-part explainer on hip dysplasia. Tune in to learn about what causes hip dysplasia and how common the problem is, plus how to put the clinical history, pain and imaging puzzle together to diagnose and identify the major impairments that come along with hip dysplasia. ---------------...

Today’s sports corner is all about managing high-level basketball athletes. Dr Maggie Bryant, Director of Rehabilitation for the LA Clippers, explains the physical demands of basketball, common injuries, and important things to consider when planning rehabilitation with basketball athletes. From the acceleration and deceleration demands, physical playing space restrictions, challenging anthropomet...

Dr Chris Napier is a physiotherapist, Assistant Professor and Director of the Run Lab at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and 2:33-marathoner. Who better to share tips for ramping up running training? Today we discuss strategies for performing well and staying injury free while running, how to choose a new running shoe, and Chris shares his approach to designing an effective all-round...

The American Physical Therapy Association's Academy of Sports Physical Therapy is now in its 50th year. Today, Academy President, Dr Mike Reinold, is celebrating not only the achievements of the past 50 years, but looking forward to the future. Mike has assumed the role of Sports Academy President at an exciting time of innovation in learning, professional development, and mentorship. Today we dis...

Dr Seth O'Neill (University of Leicester) is back sharing his tips on diagnosing the source of calf pain in active people. What are the common diagnoses? The things you should not miss? The concerning diagnosis masquerading as calf pain? And much more.

Did you know that calf injuries are one of the most common soft tissue injuries in team sports? How comfortable do you feel assessing and managing calf pain, especially designing and progressing a program to help someone get back to their sport? Today, Dr Seth O'Neill from the University of Leicester, joins us to blend the latest science in calf injury with high-level clinical reasoning. You'll ge...