PT Inquest

PT Inquest

PT Inquest was started by Erik Meira and JW Matheson as a way to discuss the use of science and evidence in the practice of physical therapy. The podcast explores current research discussing strengths, weaknesses, and clinical application in an honest, open, and critical fashion. Hosted by Jason Tuori, Chris Juneau, and Megan Graham, the show is recorded monthly via online chat. Each episode is a short, one hour exploration of the literature around a topic currently in the research, hopefully making the listener think more critically about their own practice and keeping their mind open to alternate and opposing ideas.

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Episode List (Good Luck!)

Episode 337: Low-Load Blood Flow Restriction Training and Chronic Ankle Instability w/ Scott Greenberg

Episode 336: Data Normalization in Baseball Research w/ Kevin Giordano

Episode 335: Common Issues in Sports Medicine Systematic Reviews

Episode 334: CrossFit Injury Risk Factors

Episode 333: Foot Orthoses Vs. Sham for First MTP Osteoarthritis

Episode 332: APTA CSM 2024 Live!

Episode 331: Heterogeneity in Tendinopathy RCTs

Episode 330: Manual Therapy and Exercise for Shoulder Pain

Episode 329: Nocebo and Therapeutic Exercise w/ Zak Gabor

Episode 328: The Moving Target After ACLR

Episode 327: Maximizing Muscle Hypertrophy w/ Pak Androulakis-Korakakis

Episode 326: Hip Muscle Strength Testing with Portable Dynamometers

Episode 325: Myostatin and Knee Joint Injury w/ Christopher Fry

Episode 324: Lateral Ankle Sprain Return to Sport Testing

Episode 323: Multiligament Knee Injuries w/ Jill Monson

Episode 322: Direct-To-Consumer Medical Marketing

Episode 321: Injury Screens for Ballet Dancers w/ Sam Oft

Episode 320: Recreational Running Injury Risk Factors

Episode 319: Perfect Circles and Communication

Episode 318: The One-Leg Rise Test and Quad Strength w/ Aaron Borgmann

Episode 317: Proportion Attributable to Contextual Effects in Medicine

Episode 316: Guideline Advice Plus Pain Science or Ergonomics For Low Back Pain

Episode 315: Exercise for Reducing Change of Direction Asymmetry

Episode 314: Ultrasound Imaging in PT Practice

Episode 313: Oscillation Tools for Shoulder Instability

Episode 312: Injury Incidence and Playing Surfaces

Episode 311: JW and Erik Signing Off

Episode 310: Effects of Exercise on Patella Location with PFP

Episode 309: Personalized Treatments and Placebo

Episode 308: Description, Prediction, and Causation in Research w/ Justin Losciale

Episode 307: Injections, Exercise, Advice, and Heel Cups for Plantar Fasciopathy

Episode 306: Muscle Strength and Graft Laxity With OKC Exercise After ACLR

Episode 305: Storm Clouds and the PT Profession

Episode 304: Jumping With Low Energy Availability

Episode 303: Opioids for Acute Back Pain

Episode 302: Long-Term Knee Osteoarthritis Outcomes

Episode 301: Foot Mobility and Locomotion w/ Lauren Welte

Episode 300: The 300 Extravaganza

Episode 299: Symptom Duration and Achilles Tendinopathy Rehab

Episode 298: Spinal Loading During Activities

Episode 297: Side-Step Cutting After ACLR

Episode 296: Pain Catastrophizing and Exercise for Shoulder Pain

Episode 295: Gluteal Muscle Forces During Rehabilitation Exercises

Episode 294: Physician Vs Artificial Intelligence Responses

Episode 293: Residency Research Requirements

Episode 292: Hip Abductor Strength and Throwing Injuries

Episode 291: Diagnostic Tests for Low Back Pain

Episode 290: Sport Coaching and Video Game Design w/ Derek Miles

Episode 289: Strength Training Vs Plyometrics For Running Performance

Episode 288: Common Errors in Strength and Conditioning Meta-Analyses w/ Kristin Sainani

Episode 287: Quad Strength and Knee Joint Power After ACLR w/ Megan Graham

Episode 286: Video Analysis of Rectus Femoris Injuries

Episode 285: Physical Therapists’ Beliefs on Low Back Pain w/ Michelle Dolphin & Adam Rufa

Episode 284: Exercising On Sand and Foot Pronation

Episode 283: The Healthspan-Lifespan Gap

Episode 282: Exercise and Education Vs Saline Injections for Knee Osteoarthritis

Episode 281: Chaos in Strength and Conditioning Terminology

Episode 280: Long-Term Follow-Up After Arthroscopic Bankart Repair

Episode 279: Low-Load Blood Flow Restriction Training w/ Kyle Kimbrell

Episode 278: Achilles Tendon Forces and Pain with Tendinopathy

Episode 277: Preseason Musculoskeletal Pain in Collegiate Athletes

Episode 276: Knowledge Overconfidence and Anti-Consensus Scientific Views

Episode 275: Exercise Descriptors in ACL Research

Episode 274: False or Clinically Unimportant Findings in Ankle Sprain Research

Episode 273: Acromiohumeral Distance and Tendon Thickness With Shoulder Impingement

Episode 272: Effects of Gradient and Speed on Running Variability

Episode 271: Preseason Eccentric Hamstring Strength and Hamstring Injuries w/ Mikel Joachim

Episode 270: Reassurance and Disability with Acute Low Back Pain

Episode 269: Return to Sport Decision-Making Frameworks w/ Quinn Henoch

Episode 268: Measurement Schmeasurement

Episode 267: Evidence of ACL Healing

Episode 266: Constructive and Obsessive Scientific Criticism

Episode 265: Visual Inspection of Lower Limb Malalignment

Episode 264: Effects of Static Stretching on Muscle Strength and Flexibility

Episode 263: Pediatric Low Back Pain w/ Joshua Pate

Episode 262: Contralateral FAI Progression Following Hip Arthroscopy

Episode 261: Instagram Posts and Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion Surgery

Episode 260: Running Gait Retraining

Episode 259: Cognitive Training and Skill Transfer

Episode 258: ACL Fatigue Failure

Episode 257: Proposed Mechanisms of Exercise for Shoulder Pain

Episode 256: Shoulder ROM and Elbow Pain in Youth Pitchers

Episode 255: Readers Vs Non-readers of the Patellofemoral Pain Clinical Practice Guideline w/ Rich Willy

Episode 254: A Multiplanar Achilles Tendon Rupture

Episode 253: Deceleration Training in Team Sports w/ Jarred Boyd

Episode 252: Corticosteroid Injection Plus Exercise for Achilles Tendinopathy

Episode 251: Training Load Monitoring in the Military w/ Chris Juneau

Episode 250: Most Healthcare Interventions Lack High Quality Evidence

Episode 249: Sports Injury Prediction Models Have Poor Methodology

Episode 248: Knee Osteoarthritis Concept Mapping

Episode 247: Adding Virtual Reality Exercise for Total Hip Arthroplasty

Episode 246: Force Testing in Rehabilitation

Episode 245: Unilateral vs Bilateral Exercise After ACLR

Episode 244: Physical Activity Coaching for Chronic Low Back Pain

Episode 243: Foot Posture and Ankle Dorsiflexion with Plantar Heel Pain

Episode 242: Swearing in Clinical Practice

Episode 241: Medical Education About Common Conditions

Episode 240: Return to Sport Testing Following Arthroscopic Bankart Repair

Episode 239: Effectiveness of an Athletics Injury Prevention Program

Episode 238: Running Injuries and Vertical Loading Rate Calculation w/ Crista Wille

Episode 237: Screening for Yellow Flags in Orthopedic Physical Therapy

Episode 236: Supporting Evidence for Physical Therapist Continuing Education

Episode 235: Temporal Characteristics of Gait After ACLR

Episode 234: Interplanetary Travel and Musculoskeletal Health

Episode 233: Functional Task Performance with Hip and Groin Pain

Episode 232: Ten Common Statistical Errors in Biomedical Research w/ Keith Lohse

Episode 231: The Nordic Hamstring Exercise and Injury Prevention

Episode 230: Classification Approaches Have Small Effects

Episode 229: Surgery or Exercise for Meniscal Tears

Extrasode: Return To Running After ACLR

Episode 228: Disentangling Contextual Effects from Musculoskeletal Treatments

Episode 227: The Current State of PT Literature

Episode 226: Ankle Dorsiflexion and Landing Forces in Jumping Athletes

Extrasode: Special Tests Can Be Special

Episode 225: PRP vs Sham for Achilles Tendinopathy

Episode 224: Longer Explanations Are Not More Caring or Satisfying

Episode 223: Exercise Versus Saline for Knee OA

Extrasode: The False Dichotomy of Open vs Closed Kinetic Chain

Episode 222: Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments for PFP

Episode 221: Methodology Over Metrics

Episode 220: Has PT Research Reporting Improved?

Episode 219: Entry-Level Students Performing Replications w/ Dan Quintana

Episode 218: Perceptions of Pain Consultations

Episode 217: Quad Strength and Return to Running After ACLR

Extrasode: Science Is Absurd

Episode 216: Problem with Patient Decision Aids

Episode 215: Psychologically Informed Interventions for PFP

Episode 214: Questionable Research Practices

Extrasode: Feedback Calibration Specialists

Episode 213: Ten Commandments for Patient-Centered Treatment

Episode 212: Lasers Again for Some Reason

Episode 211: Hazards Associated with Communicating Science

Extrasode: Cultural Influences on Injury Risk

Episode 210: More Exercise for Shoulder Impingement

Episode 209: Reassurance And Mediation Analysis

Episode 208: Anteromedial Hip Strengthening for PFP

Extrasode: Does Exercise Need to Be Fun?

Episode 207: Step Rate and Bone Stress Injury

Episode 206: Exercise for CLBP

Episode 205: ACL Confidence

Hiatus

Episode 204: Changes Coming and an RCT on Hip Surgery

Episode 203: The World Needs All The Rehabs

Episode 202: Bad Science w/ James Heathers

Episode 201: Eliminating Postoperative Opioids

Episode 200: Added Benefits of Dry Needling…or Lack Thereof w/ Giovanni Ferreira

Episode 199: Change of Direction in Sport w/ Richard Clarke

Episode 198: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Physical Therapy w/ Tim Vidale & Deidra Debnam

Episode 197: Strength and Knee OA

Episode 196: Therapeutic Alliance and Telehealth

Episode 195: PT During COVID-19

Session 2: Envelope of Function and Physical Stress Theory

Session 1: History of ACLR Surgery and Rehabilitation

Episode 194: Changes Coming in 2020

Episode 193: The Science of Science w/ Dan Quintana

Episode 192: Exercise Intensity and Chronic LBP

Episode 191: Screening for Depression

Episode 190: Celebration Of Failure

Episode 189: What Should A Patient Expect After Surgery?

Episode 188: CFT vs Group Exercise for CLBP

Episode 187: Self Efficacy for Home Exercise Program

Episode 186: Steroid Injections for Arthritis

Episode 185: Patient Perception of Shared Decision Making

Episode 184: Do PTs Follow Evidence Based Guidelines? w/ Josh Zadro

Episode 183: Strength Training After ACLR

Episode 182: Early Fear Reduction For Back Pain

Episode 181: Effects of PT Personality on Patient Outcomes

Episode 180: Lots of Ways to Prevent ACL Injuries

Episode 179: Conflicts of Interest

Episode 178: Omitting Routine Radiographs After Wrist Fracture

Episode 177: Predicting Return to Sport After FAI Surgery

Episode 176: Predicting Outcomes With Meniscus Injuries

Episode 175: Pain or No Pain During Hamstring Rehab Exercises w/ Jack Hickey

Episode 174: Evidence Vs Consensus in Clinical Practice Guidelines

Episode 173: Early Vs Delayed Surgery for FAI

Episode 172: Patient Recall of Preop Symptoms

Episode 171: Home-Based Exercise After THA

Episode 170: Altering Patient Reported Outcomes Through Practice

Episode 169: Patient Understanding of Nonsurgical Interventions for Knee OA

Episode 168: Chronic Pain and Exercise

Episode 167: Internet-Based Information About Low Back Pain

Episode 166: Algorithm Based Treatment of Proximal Humerus Fractures

Episode 165: Manipulation Effects On Cervical Radiculopathy

Episode 164: Diversity in Orthopedics

Episode 163: ACL, Obesity, Causation, and YOU!

Episode 162: PRP vs Placebo for Patellar Tendinopathy

Episode 161: Counteracting Health Misinformation

Episode 160: Hips, Knees, or Do Whatever for PFP

Episode 159: Being a Medical Conservative

Episode 158: Knee Function 6 Months After ACLR

Episode 157: Rate of Torque Development and Knee Osteoarthritis

Episode 156: Effectiveness of Later-Stage Exercise After TKR

Episode 155: Surgical Fixation Techniques for Syndesmosis Injuries

Episode 154: Hip Arthroscopy vs Physiotherapy

Episode 153: Lumbar Spine Injuries In Athletes

Episode 152: Provider Cognitive Errors Contributes To Medical Overuse

Episode 151: Pain Coping Skills Training and TKA

Episode 150: Relation of Psychological Readiness and Kinematics After ACLR w/ Ryan Zarzycki

Episode 149: Ultrasound Works Sorta Kinda

Episode 148: Text Messaging to Improve Outcomes

Episode 147: Role of Cam In Hip Torsion Forces

Episode 146: Self Reported Home Exercise Adherence

Episode 145: Target ROM After RTC Repair

2018 PT Podcast Network Holiday Extravaganza

Episode 144: Predatory Journals And You

Episode 143: Early Intensive Pain Education To Reduce Chronic Back Pain

Episode 142: Evidence-Based PT Marketing w/ Josh Zadro

Episode 141: Frickin Lasers

Episode 140: Compensatory Strategies After ACLR w/ Susan Sigward

Episode 139: Rotator Cuff Surgery and Non Inferiority

Episode 138: PT Practice Patterns Following ACLR

Episode 137: Is Sitting Really the New Smoking?

Episode 136: Concussion Confusion w/ Jason Hugentobler

Episode 135: Predictors of Postop Pain: Psychosocial or Structural?

Episode 134: ACL Injury and Cardiovascular Diseases

Episode 133: Scientific Journals and Advocacy

Episode 132: The Long and the Short on Isometrics for Tendon Pain w/ Peter Malliaras

Episode 131: Exercise vs Injection for Gluteal Tendinopathy

Episode 130: Blood Flow Restriction Training and You w/ Scot Morrison

Episode 129: Pain Neuroscience and Exercise for Chronic Spine Pain w/ Kenny Venere

Episode 128: Surgery vs Physical Therapy for FAIS

Episode 127: Anxiety Depression and Concussion Baseline Measures

Episode 126: Screening for Female Athlete Triad w/ Mitch Rauh

Episode 125: Plantarflexors, Training Volume and Intensity in Aging Runners w/ Blaise Williams

Episode 124: Are Athletes Adequately Tested Prior to RTS After ACLR? w/ Allison Toole & Matt Ithurburn

Episode 123: How to Fix the Weak Spots in Contemporary Science

Episode 122: Injections, Shams, and Achilles Tendinopathy

Episode 121: Hamstrings Fatigue After Injury

Episode 120: Placebo Use In Sports Medicine

Episode 119: Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation

Episode 118: Spin in the Literature

Episode 117: Double Your Bundle

Episode 116: Effective Treatments for Musculoskeletal Pain

Episode 115: How To Survive the Medical Misinformation Mess

Episode 114: Changing Hip Morphology During Adolescence

Episode 113: Preparing to Avoid Research Waste

Episode 112: Cost-Effectiveness of Early Rehabilitation After Lumbar Disc Surgery

Episode 111: Psychological Interventions and Pain

Episode 110: Statistics As A Grammar For Research

Episode 109: Rate of Force Development and PFP

Episode 108: Postural Control and ACL Injury Risk

Episode 107: Minimum Information for Studies Evaluating Biologics in Orthopaedics

Episode 106: How to Science in Medicine

Episode 105: Rehab After Meniscal Repair

Episode 104: The Costs of Low Value Healthcare

Episode 103: Prognostic Factors for Postop Frozen Shoulder

Episode 102: Subgrouping Is Really Hard

Episode 101: Measuring Quad Index In Your Clinic

Episode 100: A Look Back At PT Inquest

Episode 99: Effect of Early ROM After RTC Repair

Episode 98: Learning From Critique

Episode 97: Clinician Expectation of Benefits and Harms

Episode 96: Patellofemoral Pain and the Envelope of Function

Episode 95: Early PT Does Not Reduce Healthcare Utilization in Acute LBP

Episode 94: PT Podcast Network Holiday Extravaganza 2016

Episode 93: Warwick Agreement on FAI Syndrome

Episode 92: Isometrics vs Isotonics for Patellar Tendon Pain

Episode 91: Predicting PT Outcomes for Shoulder Pain

Episode 90: Overground vs Treadmill Loads (with Rich Willy)

Episode 89: Effects of Structured Exercise on Depression

Episode 88: Hip Strength With Quad Deficits After ACLR (with Matt Ithurburn)

Episode 87: Lack of Credibility of Subgroup Claims in LBP

Episode 86: Preventing Overuse Shoulder Injuries (with Adam Meakins)

Episode 85: Physical Agents Are Effective Sorta

Episode 84: Running Into Arthritis

Episode 83: Predicting Injuries in Sports

Episode 82: Self-Managed Single Exercise Program for RTC

Episode 81: Effect of Abdominal Bracing on GRF

Episode 80: Glenohumeral Kinematics with RTC Tears

Episode 79: Predicting Pain After Shoulder Surgery

Episode 78: Using LP-PRP for Osteoarthritis

Episode 77: Predicting Hamstring Injuries

Episode 76: Getting Salty About The Literature

Episode 75: How a Tendon is Like a Doughnut

Episode 74: Orthopedic Surgeons Are Bad With Uncertainty

Episode 73: Lever Sign for ACL Injury

Episode 72: How To Tear An ACL

Episode 71: High Ankle Sprains

Episode 70: Epidemiology of Sports-Related Concussions

Episode 69: PT Podcast Network Holiday Extravaganza

Episode 68: Strength Asymmetry and Landing Mechanics After ACLR (with Laura Schmitt)

Episode 67: Hip Strength Greater with PFP (with Greg Lehman)

Episode 66: To Cut or Not To Cut for Rotator Cuff Tears

Episode 65: Interpreting Pain Research (with Neil O’Connell)

Episode 64: PFP in Adolescence vs Adults

Episode 63: What To Do With Fat Hips

Episode 62: To Decompress or Not To Decompress Subacromial Space

Episode 61: Inflammatory Cells and Painful Tendinopathy (with Peter Gettings)

Episode 60: Hip Strength and Dynamic Lower Extremity Control

Episode 59: Hip Internal Rotation and ACL Fatigue Failure

Episode 58: Hip Strength, FAI, and Labral Tears

Episode 57: Quad Strength and Patellofemoral Chondral Damage After ACLR

Episode 56: Exercise Interventions for the Treatment of CLBP

Episode 55: Pain Sensitivity and Its Response to Desensitization

Episode 54: FAI in Elite Ice Hockey Goaltenders

Episode 53: Strength Changes After Hamstring Autograft ACLR

Episode 52: Influence of PT Kinesiophobic Beliefs

Episode 51: Undiffusion of Established Practices

Episode 50: Mechanisms of Manual Therapy

Episode 49: Eccentric Hip Abduction Strength and PFP

Episode 48: Nonsurgical Care for Lateral Epicondylalgia

Episode 47: Enhancing Motor Learning to Reduce Injury Risk

Episode 46: Bogus Visual Feedback and Chronic Neck Pain

Episode 45: Kinesiophobia After ACLR

EXTRASODE: When A Valid Argument Can Be False

Episode 44: Steroid Injection vs Manual Physical Therapy (with Adam Meakins)

EXTRASODE: Does God Exist?

Episode 43: Nonlinear Pedagogy and Learning Sport Skills

EXTRASODE: The Science Series

EXTRASODE: Operant Conditioning and Positive Feedback Loops

Episode 42: Classification Systems for Chronic LBP

Episode 41: Rectangular Tunnels for ACLR

Episode 40: ACLR Technique and Kinematic Forces

Episode 39: Hip-Spine Syndrome

Episode 38: Normal Landing Mechanics

Episode 37: Hip Strength and PFP

Episode 36: IASTM and ROM Changes

Episode 35: Quad Strengthening for PFPS

Episode 34: Incidence of 2nd ACL Injury in First 2 Years

Episode 33: FMS In-Line Lunge Compared to Performance Measures

Episode 32: PT and Hip OA

Episode 31: Biomechanical Markers After Manipulations

Episode 30: Therapeutic Alliance

Episode 29: ACLR Active Flexion Deficit and Bundling

Episode 28: Injury Prevention Programs

Episode 27: Dry Needling

Episode 26: Research Needs

Episode 25: MET for PFPS and Roller Massage Increasing ROM

Episode 24: Gluteus Medius Repairs and Lumbopelvic Manip/KT in PFPS

Episode 23: Arthroscopy in Knees with DJD and STarT Back Screening Tool

Episode 22: MRI Accuracy of Cartilage Lesions and MRI Accuracy of Lumbar Disk Herniation Follow Up

Episode 21: Steroid/Physio with Epicondylalgia and Early OKC after ACLR

Episode 20: Nonoperative vs operative ACL after 5 years and EMG comparing gluteus medius vs TFL

Episode 19: Transphyseal ACL Reconstruction in Skeletally Immature and ACL Reconstruction Surgery Timing After Injury

Episode 18: Strength with Epicondylalgia and Movement Pattern Modification with PFPS

Episode 17: OAT vs. Microfracture (again) and Systematic Review of CPRs

Episode 16: OAT vs. Microfracture and Operative vs. Nonoperative ACL

Episode 15: Lateral Ankle Sprains and SMT Efficacy in Acute LBP

Episode 14: Cartilage Research and Strain Counterstrain

Episode 13: Mirror Gait Retraining in PFPS and Neurogenerative Causes of Death in NFL

Episode 12: Quadriceps Femoris Strength Asymmetry and Rate of Force Development After ACLR

Episode 11: Kinesio Tape vs. Thrust Manipulations and Accelerated Rehab After ACI

Episode 10: Inactivity/Disease and Classification-Based LBP Approach

Episode 9: Bankart Repair and High Ankle Sprain Prognostic Predictors

Episode 8: CNLBP Prognosis and Effusion/Quad Inhibition

Episode 7: ACL Survival and Hip Strength/Trunk Kinematics in PFPS

Episode 6: Weight loss after THA and Scapular Assistance Test

Episode 5: Diathermy and Meniscus Surgeries

Episode 4: PFPS Predictors and Early ROM after RTC Repair

Episode 3: Cam Incidence and Comparing Exercise Treatments for Chronic NS LBP

Episode 2: Patient Activation and Non-Specific Effects

Episode 1: Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and New Ideas

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