ACL 101s There’s non-negotiables for me within ACL rehab. Here’s one of them. The shuffle return. Not because I massively value the action itself, but it never fails to highlight braking/penultimate step issues on surgical side. ACL rehab goes beyond ISO-K & forceplates.

Thomas Dekkers | Spinal Specialist Physiotherapist Mercer and Bogduk’s paper is worth a read. The ligaments and anulus fibrosus of human adult cervical intervertebral squareonephysio.com.au/wp-content/upl… Cervical discs are not little lumbar discs.

Measuring thigh muscle girth is always something I eval as part of my testing. IJSPT paper discusses this in relation to strength gain. Only accounts for about 13% of the variance. I've certainly turned plenty of people loose w/o LSI of thigh girth, but should get eventually

🆕"The current study analyzed the associations between initial ACC coordination patterns & lower body strength, exploring potential interactions with Isometric Squat Force, CMJ, Nordic HT & Hop test RSI" 👉B. Donaldson et al, 2025 🇿🇦 📂Open Access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Identifying symptom profiles and how they relate to recovery timelines among collegiate athletes with sport-related concussion 🤕 NEW #BJSMblog in the BJSM ✅📄 Can we support and form targeted, symptom-domain-specific interventions in the management of concussion? READ 👉

Open access from OJSM_SportsMed and a good read if you're working in a place w/ limited resources but want to do a good job w/ your ACL testing. Might not learn a lot if you're up to speed, but if you aren't keeping up, give this a go. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

Every fitness person online is screaming... One camp shouts: Zone 2. The other: Go hard or go home. HIIT! But if you look at what the best in the world actually do? It’s simpler. More thoughtful. Less dogmatic. More varied A new study surveyed elite endurance coaches and the

🚨Big news just in for sports science practitioners: In an industry-first, our Apex GPS units have been officially validated for Sprint Force-Velocity Profiling. New peer-reviewed research by Robert Stockdate et al has confirmed that our Apex GPS devices provide valid and

📢 Not just another sports injury prediction paper! 🧭 Take-aways to consider when building your own model. 🚨 Spoiler : Machine learning is not fit for risk factor analysis and we show why. Limited access 👉 tandfonline.com/eprint/ZJUEIX9… Journal of Sports Sciences Pascal EDOUARD

Jack Conan just before kick-off.

Calf Muscle Injuries In The Athlete ✍️Written by: Carles Pedret, Stefano Palermi, Sandra Mechó, Gulraiz Ahmad, and Justin C. Lee. Calf injuries are among the most common musculoskeletal issues in sports, particularly affecting amateur athletes due to frequent engagement in

Nice study - More evidence that niggles matter! “Injuries that do not affect participation should not be ignored but managed, as they carry a five-fold increased risk of leading to participation restriction in the following week compared to healthy status.”

Michael Jordan is famously insanely competitive. Phil Jackson preached to 'dial back' our ego and let go of outcomes. On the tension between competitiveness and letting go. And why finding the sweet spot is what matters most: thegrowtheq.com/balancing-comp…

How do you change a well-learned skill? Spoiler: It’s one of the hardest things to do in sport. Coaches spend hours on technical change… But when the pressure hits, athletes go right back to what they know. 🧵 A thread on technique, learning, and why most change efforts fail:

🔴New paper alert🔴 from a side project of my post-doc years in France 🇫🇷 📰Validating Field Methods to Estimate the Pelvic Tilt in Sprinting and the Relationship between Prior Hamstring Injury and the Pelvic Tilt in Elite Female Soccer Players 🔗tinyurl.com/469hm2ru

Massive congratulations to Thilina Vitharana on this double publication in JOSPT Community with in depth review of Assessment (part 1) and Rehabilitation (Part 2) of sensorimotor dysfunction after #ACL injury as part of his Phd work in the area. Identifying and targeting sensorimotor

🆕"A two-dimensional conceptualization of HSR is proposed in this article, based on the physiological, neuromuscular, mechanical & kinematic parameters ⚽️" ➡️A new metabolic & mechanical approach 👉R. Pimenta Fábio Yuzo Nakamura et al, 2025 🇵🇹 📂Open Access: frontiersin.org/journals/sport…

Heat beats cold when it comes to injury recovery. A new study found that hot water immersion may aid muscle regeneration by: - reducing pain - lowering damage markers - promoting anti-inflammatory responses, and - increasing expression of protective proteins In contrast, cold

📣 NEW #Infographic on bone stress injury ⚠️ Translating the international Delphi consensus on bone stress injuries into clinical practice ✅ Article ➡️ bit.ly/4l16ADU

HOT OFF THE PRESS: IS LIFTING TECHNIQUE Related to Pain and Functional Limitation in people with lifting related back pain? I get asked this Q so often. Ivan PH Au and team asked this question in this excellent OPEN ACCESS study... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ej…