Today is a solo podcast from Mike talking about "The effect of strength training on endurance performance determinants in middle- and long-distance endurance athletes: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analysis". While there are a lot of components to cover with this article, Mike's key takeaway is this: there are benefits of strength training to running economy and endurance performance (time trials or time to exhaustion), and there is no "magic formula" that is best. So, if you aren't doing any strength training to supplement running, you are leaving possible performance improvements on the table.

The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40153564/

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Data Nerds is a new series that we are introducing which will be alternating weeks with our usual journal club podcast. In this series, we share cases from our clinical practice where we utilize objective testing to inform our decision making, with most attention paid to the results of the tests and interpretation of the information. Therefore, this works best when you can see the numbers. Luckily, these are uploaded to our YouTube channel! Check us out at https://www.youtube.com/@ReadingRehab.

Pat presents countermovement jump data from a high school freshman female soccer player who returned to sport early against the advice of the treating physical therapist. He shows how her lingering quad strength deficits impact her movement patterns. Enjoy!

We're back talking about "Relative values of maximal isometric strength in lower limbs across different sports disciplines in high-performance athletes" an article published in Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research in 2025. The title and a quick skim brought our hopes up: having more normative values for the major muscle actions of the lower extremity would be nice. But our hopes came crashing down when we got to the methods. Measuring force:bodyweight not torque:bodyweight, different sports being analyzed as the same group, and not stabilizing during in-line dynamometry are some of the major crimes of the paper. Listen to the episode to hear our various rants!

The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40440540/

As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram @readingrehabpod. If you have any article recommendations be sure to send them our way!

Data Nerds is a new series that we are introducing which will be alternating weeks with our usual journal club podcast. In this series, we share cases from our clinical practice where we utilize objective testing to inform our decision making, with most attention paid to the results of the tests and interpretation of the information. Therefore, this works best when you can see the numbers. Luckily, these are uploaded to our YouTube channel! Check us out at https://www.youtube.com/@ReadingRehab.

Pat shows off countermovement jump data for a young gymnast coming back from osteoma in her knee. He sets the stage by going over isokinetic knee extensor strength, then demonstrates the importance of a battery of testing to uncover weaknesses.

Mike and Pat discuss a recent article arguing for a new name for "shin splints": Load Induced Medial Leg Pain, or LIMP for short. While this is a fun name for these not fun symptoms, we aren't convinced that the name is actually necessary. What should have been a much more interesting conversation is foiled by wifi connection issues, but we hope you can enjoy our frustration at our difficulty having a conversation.

The article can be found here: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2025.13411

As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram @readingrehabpod. If you have any article recommendations be sure to send them our way!

Data Nerds is a new series that we are introducing which will be alternating weeks with our usual journal club podcast. In this series, we share cases from our clinical practice where we utilize objective testing to inform our decision making, with most attention paid to the results of the tests and interpretation of the information. Therefore, this works best when you can see the numbers. Luckily, these are uploaded to our YouTube channel! Check us out at https://www.youtube.com/@ReadingRehab.

This week, Mike goes over recently collected baseline strength and run analysis data from an elite runner. He goes over his different isometric testing set ups with the Tindeq, his key takeaways from the strength testing, and how he uses strength metrics to form hypotheses from the run analysis.

Pat and Mike are back this week talking about something they don't know much about, but probably should: orthobiologics and "regenerative medicine". This is the future of medicine, whether we want it to be or not, so we should probably start learning about it.

The article can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03635465251357626

As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram @readingrehabpod. If you have any article recommendations be sure to send them our way!

This is the last episode of a shorts series on a very thorough case report of a professional female soccer player returning to play for the World Cup following ACL tear. In this episode, we talk through the on-pitch progression utilizing the control-chaos continuum and return to performance.

The article can be found here: https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/6/1/e000843

As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram @readingrehabpod. If you have any article recommendations be sure to send them our way!