Many clinicians wonder is tests such as the quad index are good enough for returning an athlete to sport after ACLR. Turns out, clinicians aren’t even doing that! In the episode we have special...
The scientific community has made some mistakes over the past couple decades, leading people to think many effects were much larger than they actually are, if they even existed at all! So what is...
Injecting tendinopathies is a popular practice; everything from PRP to steroids to saline to even sugar. But is there any efficacy? What exactly do these things do? Could there actually be a mechanical effect...
Injuries to the hamstrings are more common than just about any other muscle injury in sport. And once you do it once, you are more likely to do it again. What is the problem...
When it comes to using treatments which have effects that may be nothing more than placebo, the question that is often asked is “What’s the harm?” Well, according to these authors, it could be...
We all know that “correlation does not equal causation” but it is still counterintuitive. There are many questions in healthcare that just cannot be approached by the randomized controlled trial (RCT) requiring us to...
Being positive in life is usually seen as a good thing. Try to identify the silver lining and highlight it. But when it comes to research, that “spin” can have detrimental results for developing...
The double bundle ACL reconstruction is better! Kinda. Sorta. Maybe. But maybe it’s not for you. Or maybe it is! Does this squirrel look fat? Does anyone read these descriptions? Does anyone else smell...
There is a lot that we can throw at musculoskeletal pain, but what actually has evidence behind it? We do we actually know and what directions should the research be headed? THIS ARTICLE IS...
Medical research as a whole can be a mess of low quality studies. This has significant downstream effects of misinformation, confusion, and large variation of practice, not to mention the abundance of low value...