The Sports Rehab Lab

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! We are very focused and diligent in rehab to make sure that range of motion, strength and general function are achieved by our patients.  We even progress them to the point where we are comfortable with returning them to their sport.  But, do we really do enough?  Are we making sure that we are just not working on strength, but speed and strengt...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! How complex to rehab programs have to be?  There is an influence of social media on rehabilitation programs and the trend of making them overly complex, but do they really need to be this way.  Listen to the crew as they discuss the complexity of their rehab programs, and how they progress through them for both lower and upper extremity surgerie...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! What happens after someone has passed their return to sport testing metrics?  Are they completely ready to go back to competitive sport, or are we missing the fact that returning to play is just the fist step in returning to high level competitive sport.  .Listen to the crew as they share their insights and experiences in progressing patients th...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Have you ever encountered that stiff joint after surgery and just get confused as to how much you should be pushing to get that motion back?  Or should you be pushing it at all?  This can be very confusing and there are a lot of schools of thought and influences out there that may confuse you as to how to really treat this patient population.  L...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Treating a professional athlete is something that most if not all sports physical therapists strive to do.  Luckily we are fortunate to do this on a regular basis. But, is treatment really different when treating one of these individuals.  Listen to our thoughts of how we started out on this path, and what we have done in order to continue to ha...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Part 2 of our conversation with Dr, Beamer Carr focuses on UCL repair, the use of weighted balls in training, and things he looks for in a physical therapist when sending them his patients after surgical repair.  Let's Goooo The Sports Rehab Lab podcast is for general information only and does not constitute the practice of physical therapy...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Dr James "Beamer" Carr is our guest for this special 2 part podcast.  Listen to his perspective on elbow and shoulder surgery of today's overhead athlete, and advances that have happened in the past few years, along with his his insight on how he implements the skills and knowledge of his physical therapist base to help with optim...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! As a new or established clinician the concept of loading after lower or upper extremity surgery can provide a lot of confusion.  It can be daunting to know that a patient your are seeing post op day one will have to sprint and or throw at high velocities.  How do we acheive that?  The conversation explores the importance of loading tissue after...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! We have dealt with a lot of hip impingement and post hip arthroscopy patients over our careers, and have had the privilege of learning from the best there is.  With that said we all have had our struggles of this patient population, and sometimes it is a struggle to get them better once they have gotten off the correct rehabilitation track.  Hea...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Total Shoulder Arthroplasty has become much more prevalent in todays active adult population, but how far can they get after surgery.  Are we looking at them getting back to just functional activities, or is some sort of athletic function a possibility with them.  Listen to the discussion this week and listen to what we think about the surgery,...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Articular cartilage surgery has seen a lot of advancements in the last several years.  With progressed rehabilitation patients should advance as well.  Listen to our experience in treating this patient population over the years, and things we have leraned to effectively return these patients to higher level sport, Including advancements in rehab...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Almost every clinician in an outpatient clinical setting will see a rotator cuff repair at some point in their career, but can you treat it efficiently?  Listen to our take on rotator cuff repair and rehab from our active adult population to our professional athletes, and the nuances we use to get effective results for our patients.  Let's...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! With youth sports getting more competitive, more explosive and the constant participation with minimal rest we have seen common injuries go way up.  With that we are seeing a lot of our youth athletes start to get injuries that we would predominately see in our professional population.  Listen to us talk about youth sports in general, and what a...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Rehab after an Achilles tear and subsequent surgery can be tricky. When to start weightbearing, how much should we be moving, what are the restrictions and rules with the post surgical boot? Most importantly how do we progress these people so that they can return to a high level of function?  Listen to the crew discuss their experience with this...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! We hear a lot about the optimal testing for LE extremity post surgical patients to return to sport safely and effectively, but what about out upper extremity athletes?  Beyond popular belief this includes more than just our baseball population.  We have a good idea on how to return our baseball players back to play, but what about our other athl...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! We discuss in depth on our episodes on how proper interventions help our athletes move forward in their rehab journey.  With this, its also important that our healing athletes fuel themselves properly after surgical intervention.  Proper nutrition is a mainstay for healing athletes, but many of us forget or don't know how to properlky fuel...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Is open chain knee extension really bad for the graft after ACL reconstruction?  This topic has been debated for decades now, and there are still a lot of questions regarding the validity of it.  Listen to this episode to hear our thoughts along with discussing a recent article that really makes us think about how effective this intervention is...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Returning to sports is fundamental issue that all of us face when trying to treat our athletes. How are we going about it and more importantly what metrics are we using to make sure that our athletes are ready to return to the levels of sport effectively and safely. Listen to the crew explain their current return to sport testing procedures and...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Medicine and physical therapy is changing! Listen to our thoughts on the future of healthcare, longevity and Physical Therapy. Everyone wants to live longer and stay active. We will give some pointers on the trends that we have observed over the years and the direction we see the field going.  Lets Go!!! The Sports Rehab Lab podcast is for gener...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Anterior knee pain can be challenging to diagnose and treat. It is not always from weak VMO's and tight ITB's. Tune in to hear about how we assess and treat anterior knee pain as it is one of the more common orthopedic diagnosis. Listen to some of the tips our knee experts offer for successful and rapid management of knee pain.  Lets G...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Tune in to listen how we handle difficult rehab situations. Sometimes things don't go as planned and management of these situations can alter the outcome of our patients. We all have had to deal with these difficult situations so tune in to hear how we manage them.  Let's Go!!!! The Sports Rehab Lab podcast is for general information o...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Everybody is busy when they are in the clinic. From treating patients, to documenting, and answering patients calls, the tasks can seem endless in a work day and there never seems to be enough time in the day. Listen to how we manage our busy schedule along with giving advice on how you can do it as well. Let’s go!!! The Sports Rehab Lab podcast...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Force plates can be used in the rehab setting in many different ways. Listen up to see how we use them for both treatment and testing for our patients. Hear how we implement them for return to play testing and why we feel that they are an important tool for all of our patients. Lets GO!! The Sports Rehab Lab podcast is for general information on...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! Strength testing has come a long way in the last 10 years. Listen up to hear how we use to assess strength and how we are doing it now? Hear what equipment we use and what positions we put our patients in for testing. We will discuss both upper and lower body testing using multiple devices. Lets gooo! The Sports Rehab Lab podcast is for general...

Like this episode or have questions? Send us a Text! In this episode we will talk about what a sports hernia really is. Listen to our experts discuss treatment for a sports hernia and their experience returning players back to the field. Hear about our treatment strategy, rehab progressions and return to play guidelines. Do they all need surgery? Listen up and find out.  The Sports Rehab Lab podca...