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I get asked a bit about hand held dynos for physiotherapy practice
Here's 8 points you might look for if you are thinking of buying one
YMMV
Rod Whiteley
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Rod Whiteley
@RodWhiteley
Physiotherapist at Aspetar Sports Medicine Hospital, terrible baseball player.
- Planning your load progression for Achilles rehab? This review by Yoann Demangeot @MotionLabSwiss might help - peak Achilles tendon force for walk/run and different exercises/activities Figure 3 is❤️🔥IMO onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…
- Nice example of how measuring hop distance only fools us in ACLR patients as per bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/… This ACLR guy figured out how to hop the same distance, but generates less knee power in doing so @BJSM_BMJ @RoaldBahr @erikMeira @EIPConsult @JanEkstrand @mickwhughes
00:00 - Nordics not only prevent hamstring injury, but they make you about 4% faster over 10m, about 40cm enough to win the ball & maybe the game
- Nice staged, graded protocol for return to running with Achilles tendonopathy from @sancho_igor #SportsScienceWeek
- "Don't mention prevention"- coaches & athletes don't care about injury, they care about performance, Reframe how you sell your intervention in terms of performance #ssps2019
- Really nice summary of the state of the art for managing Achilles tendonopathy here: mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/1… #OpenAccess Come for the sexy Achilles tendon diagram, stay for Table 1's management prescription variables (Hint: get the load magnitude right)
- Nothing comes close to sprinting for load on the hamstrings - biggest bang for your rehab buck by far
- 90% of time-loss hamstring injuries preceded by a non-time-loss "niggle" in the week prior, but players don't complete the surveys. More engagement might come if they understand niggles can be harbingers & injuries could be avoided if reported & acted on doi.org/10.1080/247339…
- Analysis of high speed running distances in matches before/after hamstring injury shows we have some work to do in shared decision making Return to play after hamstring injury is not return to performance in half of top level football players #Free journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
- You could think of buying musculoskeletalframework.net as a US$15 donation to MSK research but this ebook really is the clearest explanation of a complete clinical reasoning framework I've ever seen I wish I had seen this as a recent grad, but glad I've got it now Just buy it Now
- If you missed the 1st session of the @Aspetar sports medicine textbook monthly session - foot & ankle, you can download the pdf of the full chapter (122 pages) here: crm.aspirezone.qa/Aspetar/SMColl… Join us (free) next month for another chapter and a chance to win the whole 2 volume text
- Heavy weight lifting of an unaffected area improves collagen synthesis of the injured area likely due to production of a global circulating factor
- Any way we sliced it, Functional Movement Screening was no help in predicting injured football players bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjspor… 9+ version
