Today’s episode of Athletes Authority ON AIR is episode 118 with host Jordi Taylor.
Today’s guest is Tristan Chai, Head of Medical for the Adelaide 36ers in the NBL and Director of Good Physio.
In this episode, Tristan shares some great insights into the NBL world throughout his experience over the past 6 seasons, pressures to return players on short injury timelines, how to communicate messages to coaches, players and all stakeholders in the organisation when it might be a tough message to deliver, finding the athlete or patients why, having strong relationships and understanding of the sport to create buy in, the benefits of having one foot in pro sport and the other in private, being proactive around learning new skills, reflecting, planning when workload is low, the balancing act that is pro sport, business owner and family man, athlete monitoring vs organisational monitoring plus a whole lot more.
This episode has plenty of incredible insights for both coaches and athletes looking to dive deeper in the world of high performance sport, especially from a physio perspective.
Enjoy, and let us know what you think!
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