Category: Episodes

   When treatments don’t seem to work for a diagnosis we will often try to see if they work for particular subgroups. Sure, that’s a thing, but that is a very difficult thing to...

   JW and Erik are having a lovely conversation about Bozeman, handball, and the number 86 when they are rudely interrupted by Adam Meakins from The NAF Physio Podcast to talk about preventing shoulder injuries....

   Systematic reviews are a great tool to boil down decades of research into a single paper. But what if those decades of research were full of low quality studies? Can we make strong “Level...

   Running is bad for your knees. It will wear them down and lead to arthritis. We’ve all heard it and it makes sense, right? But does that really happen? And what does this...

   Can we predict injuries in athletes? Is it like screening for disease or is this kind of screening a different animal? Will this episode be the greatest thing since sliced bread?! Why screening...

   What is required for rotator cuff tendinopathy? Scapular stability? Manual therapy? What if you just gave exercises? How about just one exercise? In this episode we explore all of that as Erik explores...

   When engaging in athletic activities, many physical therapists recommend bracing with the abdominals for stability as a better way to manage loads, but is it? Is it possible that bracing actually increases forces through...

   If your patient has completely torn their supraspinatus, then their humeral head must translate superiorly during arm elevation. Or does it??? In this episode JW and Erik look at a novel kinematic study...

   Some patients complain of severe pain after rotator cuff repair way more than others. Is this something that can be predicted? Does the extent of the injury have any correlation to postoperative pain? What...

   Erik and JW have a history of skepticism regarding the use of platelet rich plasm (PRP) injections for tendon injuries, but can it have an effect on osteoarthritis? What would they need to...