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138. How to treat patellar & achilles tendinopathy with Daniel Silvan

Physio Edge podcast with David Pope

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Single Leg Leg Extension Is Less Load Than Spanish Squat

If someone's capable of doing something more loaded, like for instance, a Spanish squat, then you'll tend to avoid that. They're not going to get as much benefit out of it. So how do you go about identifying what the right level of exercise is for them initially? I think you have two ways of doing it. Thinking about the standard progression that Gilkoke, Ebony Río and all this group have designed. That's one way. Another, let's say more practical way is how an exercise is stressed more a tendon than another one without being isometric or concentric. The tendon will struggle when it's under maximal tension isolated in a lengthened position

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