JOSPT Insights

The podcast discusses effective rehab strategies for runners with bone stress injuries, including managing load, using healing supplements, maintaining fitness, addressing muscle function, recommencing and progressing running, and reducing the risk of subsequent injury. Part 2 covers key principles 5 and 6, emphasizing the importance of a gradual return-to-run program and preventing future injuries through holistic approaches.

Dr. Stuart Warden shares key rehab principles for runners with bone stress injuries. Topics include differentiating between stress reactions and fractures, safe cross-training, healing supplements, maintaining fitness, and addressing muscle function. Stay tuned for Part 2 covering running progression and injury prevention.

Delivering quality musculoskeletal rehabilitation practice is a balancing act of art and science. Dr Jason Beneciuk, physical therapist and clinical research scientist at Brooks Rehabilitation and University of Florida, understands the challenges—and he’s here to offer practical solutions. Find the article "What does best practice care for musculoskeletal pain look like?" (Lin et al 2020) here: https://bit.ly/3kMtFxM

Concussion can loom as an intimidating and daunting challenge—there’s much to consider from headaches to heart rates, vision to vestibular function. Dr Kathryn Schneider is at the front line of clinical practice and research in return-to-sport after concussion. Today, she shares her tips to help the JOSPT community feel confident, not confused, about concussion. For more, check out the Berlin Concussion in Sport Consensus: https://bit.ly/3wGHosc

Dr Tracy Blake joins us from a pre-Olympics training camp to give us an inside look at how she and her high-performance team have supported Canada’s men’s volleyball team to reach Tokyo in peak condition. Lockdowns, travel bubbles, COVID tests, and long stints living out of a suitcase: the life of a pandemic-era team physical therapist.

Dr Todd Davenport joins Drs Chelsea Cooman and Dan Chapman to share the headlines from the fresh, updated clinical practice guideline (CPG) for lateral ankle sprains and chronic ankle instability. We discuss the advantages of prophylactic bracing, how ankle dorsiflexion influences mechanics, the importance of neurodynamic control, and why ice is no longer #1. Download the CPG here: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2021.0302

How many times have you reached for the explanation that pain hurts when the brain concludes that the body’s tissues need protecting from an external threat? Specialist clinician and pain educator Laura Rathbone wants to challenge the nociception view of pain and invite clinicians to cultivate a philosophy of pain. For more, check out these links: NoiJam blog: https://bit.ly/35RFH02 Philosophers Chatting with Clinicians podcast: https://spoti.fi/3quCL31 The Words Matter Podcast: http://www.wordsmatter-education.com/blog Why pain experience is not a controlled hallucination of the body: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/18770/

Quality musculoskeletal rehabilitation covers more than whether the athlete can run, jump, and land without pain or swelling. But how comfortable do you designing a rehabilitation program to train the brain as well as the body? Ohio University’s Dustin Grooms explains how to harness neuroscience in your sports injury rehabilitation programs and shares his tips for using the latest virtual reality technology in the clinic. For more help getting started with virtual reality, check out Dustin’s helpful guide here: https://bit.ly/3zBL9Sl

Physical therapists Linda Truong and Christina Le share their evidence-based approach to group rehabilitation for athletes of all ages and abilities. The Functional Agility Strength Training (FAST) program is a tailored approach that balances and promotes the physical and mental sides of recovery after serious injury such as ACL tear. Tune in for tips on how you can set up your own group-based program to support patients to reach their sports participation goals.

Dr Rob Landel boils down the 75 pages of the concussion clinical practice guideline (CPG) into a 25 min podcast episode. He highlights the key points from the CPG—including how to plan and deliver effective assessment (complete with chart), an efficient way to organize clinical information—and offers practical tips on how to educate patients and take irritability into consideration when choosing interventions. Join Chelsea Cooman and Dan Chapman to learn how to best help patients in a multi-disciplinary approach. Link to the CPG: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2020.0301