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JOSPT Insights

The Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy brings you the JOSPT Insights podcast every Monday. On each episode, experienced clinicians and researchers unpack musculoskeletal rehabilitation topics in under 30 minutes. Guests share clinical tips and research discoveries with host Dr Clare Ardern, Editor-in-Chief of JOSPT. Sports physical therapists Dr Chelsea Cooman and Dr Dan Chapman are frequent co-hosts.

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Ep 247: Shaping a career of influence, with Dr Seth...

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2025/11/10

Some of the most powerful drivers of change in musculoskeletal rehabilitation aren’t researchers or administrators—but clinicians working shoulder-to-shoulder with their peers.These so-called "local opinion leaders" often shape practice more effectively than top-down mandates or distant guidelines. And they're more than simply influencers or savvy social media marketers. In today's episode, Dr Seth Peterson explores how local opinion leaders—those trusted voices within clinical

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Ep 246: MTSS needs a new name - make no bones about...

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2025/11/03

Pain near the posteromedial tibia is common in running and jumping athletes. Laura Anderson, physiotherapist and PhD candidate, is challenging the diagnostic labels "shin splits" and "medial tibial stress syndrome", and suggesting a new term: "load-induced medial leg pain" (LIMP).In today's episode, Laura explores ways to improve how you diagnose and manage shin pain in athletes, including how you talk with athletes about their condition. She discusses loading, red flags and the

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Ep 245: Pelvic health and performing artists, with...

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2025/10/27

Over half of performing artists and artistic athletes report pelvic floor symptoms. Up to 80% of female artistic athletes report pelvic floor symptoms, yet many believe these issues—like urinary leakage during performance—are par for the course, part of the job.Today, Jessica Frydenberg explains who performing artists are, why they are particularly susceptible to pelvic floor symptoms, and what this means for your clinical practice. Jess is an experienced pelvic health

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Ep 244: How physical therapists get paid, with Dr...

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2025/10/20

Who pays you, and how, for your work as a physical therapist? How health care is funded has implications for the way you work, and for the care that you can provide for patients. Societies all around the world are grappling with complex decisions about health care and how it is funded. Even more so as changing populations place different demands on health care systems, and as the health work force changes. Today, Dr Chris Bise (Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh) explains

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Ep 243: Health economics explainer for the clinician...

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2025/10/13

Welcome back to this explainer on health economics analyses in musculoskeletal rehabilitation.In part 1, Dr Codie Primeau explained the things you're looking for when reading a health economics analysis, to decide whether it's a good quality analysis. That's important because a good quality analysis can help you make decisions about whether the intervention being studied is worth considering. Today in part 2, we take things a step further to explore how you decide what "worthwhile"

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Ep 242: Health economics explainer for the clinician...

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2025/10/06

Whether you work in a solo private practice, or a large health network, no doubt you're considering costs when it comes to deciding what to change and perhaps what to implement - or de-implement - in your practice. Perhaps you're in the position of making decisions on behalf of a health service or you are trying to quantify and communicate the costs and benefits of treatments you study in a research setting?Today is part 1 of a 2-part chat with Dr Codie Primeau about health

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Ep 241: Chatbots for orthopaedic PT - ready for prime...

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2025/09/29

Wondering about whether large language models (generative AI) like ChatGPT, Co-Pilot or Claude, to name just a few, could add value to your clinical practice?Drs Mark Vorensky and Daniel Peredo (Rutgers University; NYU Langone Health) discuss the field of 'prompt engineering' - the approach to structuring and crafting the instructions (a.k.a. prompt) given to a generative AI model, to describe the task that the AI should perform. The quality of the output from generative AI is

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Ep 240: Swapping the gym for the field -...

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2025/09/22

How do you think about supporting athletes to return to running after injury?Andrew Mitchell is someone who has thought about it a lot, and refined his approach over years of practice in top football/soccer. In today's episode, Andrew outlines the 5 elements of his criteria-based approach. Andrew is a sports physiotherapist and strength & conditioning practitioner with experience working in the hospital, private practice and professional sport arenas, including in the English

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Ep 239: Patellofemoral pain research round-up, with...

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2025/09/15

What's the latest thinking in managing patellofemoral pain?Drs Erin Macri (Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, The Netherlands) and Harvi Hart (Michigan State University) join JOSPT Insights ahead of the International Patellofemoral Research Network meeting to share the latest in patellofemoral research, and what it means for clinical practice. ------------------------------ RESOURCES JOSPT Insights Ep 229: Best practice in managing patellofemoral pain, with Dr Brad Neal:

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Ep 238: Walking back to musculoskeletal health, with...

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2025/09/08

Recurrent back pain is common, and debilitating for some people. What if there was a simple, low cost way to prevent these recurring flare ups of back pain?Dr Tash Pocovi (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) explains the research she's been leading to test a walking + education program for preventing recurrent back pain. Dr Pocovi's research focuses on improving how low back pain is managed, and especially how it is prevented. ------------------------------ RESOURCES Walking,

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Ep 237: REPRISE - what's new in treating Achilles...

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2025/09/01

The latest update to the midportion Achilles tendinopathy Clinical Practice Guideline is live! Dr Ruth Chimenti is a co-author of the updated clinical practice guideline, “Achilles Pain, Stiffness, and Muscle Power Deficits: Midportion Achilles Tendinopathy Revision 2024”, and joins JOSPT Insights to share the key updates relevant for your practice. Dr Chimenti highlights the most important changes from the last CPG update in 2018, including specifics on the best way to exercise,

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Ep 236: REPRISE - there's more to the ankle than the...

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2025/08/25

The anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) and the Achilles tendon captures much of our ankle attention. As JOSPT Insights listeners know, there's plenty more to the ankle than the ATFL.Today, Liz Bayley shares her approach to diagnosing, managing and ideally, preventing ankle pain in active people. Liz covers diagnosing the problem, where imaging fits, and how to support return to function, including high-level sport. Liz is a former professional dancer, who now works as a

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Ep 235: REPRISE - best practice for managing rotator...

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2025/08/18

Clinicians appreciate the value of a trustworthy clinical practice guideline for helping guide decisions in practice. Professor François Desmeules (University of Montréal) led an international team of shoulder experts who synthesised the latest evidence on diagnosing and non-surgically managing rotator cuff tendinopathy. Today he shares the headlines of the CPG and explains how the guideline group made sense of all the evidence to come up with recommendations for assessment,

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Ep 234: Return to sport after meniscus injury, with...

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2025/08/11

Today, we continue the conversation on the latest consensus for managing acute and degenerative meniscus tears.We jump into non-surgical treatment, and all the return to sport considerations for athletes and active people with meniscus injury. Dr Arielle Giordano (University of Delaware) shares the results of the EU-US Meniscus Rehabilitation Consensus. ------------------------------ RESOURCES EU-US Meniscus Rehabilitation Consensus on prevention, non-operative treatment and return

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Ep 233: Using clinical practice guidelines—the art...

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2025/08/04

Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are an incredible resource for clinicians of all experience levels—synthesizing all the research on a topic and packaging it into bite-sized recommendations and flow charts. But how often are clinicians adhering to these guidelines? In today’s episode, Dr Maggie Horn (Duke University) walks us through her research team’s work to assess if, how, and when clinicians follow CPG recommendations. The team worked with clinicians in their hospital system

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Ep 232: Exercise therapy "wears down" my joint - myth...

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2025/07/28

No doubt you've come across people using the analogy of a broken down machine to describe an osteoarthritic joint. Or perhaps that too much loading on the joint is responsible for wearing it out - assuming that each joint has a finite number of movements in its lifetime. You've probably also heard from patients who are concerned that the exercise therapy you prescribe might do more harm to their already worn-out joint. But is that true? Today, Dr Alessio Bricca (Centre for Muscle

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Ep 231: Training through the adolescent growth spurt...

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2025/07/21

Today is part 2 of a 2-part chat about hip health and training load for the youth athlete. Last episode, Dr Sara Lyn Terrell (Florida Southern College) discussed the developing hip, and the important distinction between primary cam morphology and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome.Many athletes have a bony bump on their hip that doesn't cause any problems - it's the morphology in combination with symptoms that clinicians might worry about. Today's episode builds on the

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Ep 230: Training for healthy hips in adolescent...

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2025/07/14

The hip health of youth athletes as their skeletons grow and mature while the athlete copes with the physical and mental stressors of sport and life, has been receiving renewed attention.Today's episode of JOSPT Insights is part 1 of a 2-part chat about training load and the youth athlete's hip. We discuss how primary cam morphology and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome might develop. Dr Sara Lynn Terrell (Florida Southern College) shares her >20 years of experience in exercise

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Ep 229: Best practice in managing patellofemoral...

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2025/07/07

Patellofemoral pain can affect anyone at any age, which mean you're likely to come across it in your clinical career. What is best practice in managing patellofemoral pain?Today, Dr Brad Neal (Queen Mary University of London) walks us through how to apply the best research to your practice. Dr Neal has worked for over a decade in elite sport, private and public health care settings as a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist. His PhD work in biomechanics has helped guide

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Ep 228: The worst pain is unexplained, with Dr Paul...

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2025/06/30

Pain is often what prompts patients to seek the care of a musculoskeletal rehabilitation clinician.In today's episode, Dr Paul Mintken guides listeners through different ways to work with a person to help make sense of, and explain, unexplained pain. Dr Mintken (Hawai'i Pacific University) is a board-certified Orthopaedic Clinical Specialist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic and Manual Physical Therapists. ------------------------------ RESOURCES JOSPT Viewpoint

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