Lateral Think - The Melbourne Athletic Development Podcast

In this episode we speak with Dr Richard Newsham-West. Richard is an Associate Professor of Physiotherapy at LaTrobe University and a titled Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist. He brings research and clinical experience to his teaching and clinical practice having worked in elite sport and universities in both his native New Zealand and Australia.  With his wealth of experience he shares his vie...

Meagan Kiely joins Jack and John to discuss the unique perspective that she has being a physiotherapist and elite athlete as an AFLW player for the Richmond Football Club. We discuss the influence having a background knowledge has on performance and injury management and identify some of the areas for development in women's sport and injury management for females. 

In this episode, Jack and John discuss flexibility training and the effects that this has on both peripheral tissue and the central mechanisms that drive range of motion change with both short and long term application of stretching and flexibility training. This episode looks to benefit clinicians, sports performance professionals, coaches and athletes in their understanding of the training that...

In this episode we speak to Dr Brady Green (PhD). As a sports physiotherapy clinician, researcher and sports performance practitioner, we discuss areas relating to research, injury management and optimizing injury risk in sport. With so much to discuss we have two extremely interesting episodes to explore healthcare and injury management. This is part 2.

In this episode we speak to Dr Brady Green (PhD). As a sports physiotherapy clinician, researcher and sports performance practitioner, we discuss areas relating to research, injury management and optimizing injury risk in sport. With so much to discuss we have two extremely interesting episodes to explore healthcare and injury management. This is part 1. 

Jack and John discuss what inspired starting the podcast, what we are looking to offer the clinical and sports performance world and share some of our ideas in this introductory episode.