• How can you treat patients who experience knee pain and swelling during and after running? If you suspect their symptoms are caused by a meniscal injury, how can you rehab and return these patients to running without surgery?

  In this Physio Edge: Running repairs podcast with Tom Goom, you’ll explore meniscal injuries in runners, recent research on runners with meniscal tears, and how to provide effective non-surgical management. You’ll discover:

  • Initial steps for managing pain and swelling in affected runners.
  • Techniques to restore and maintain range of movement.
  • Strategies for rebuilding strength in key muscle groups.
  • Approaches to improve impact control and tolerance, preparing runners for a gradual return to their sport.
  • When to manage these patients non-surgically, and when to refer for a surgical opinion.

  Tom explores the physical aspects of recovery, along with the impact of general health, weight management, and gait retraining on knee health. With a realistic timeline for recovery and a focus on individualised treatment plans, this podcast is a must-listen for therapists who treat runners.

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  • Free Achilles tendinopathy videos
  • Discover the simple secrets to successfully treat tendon pain in this free three part video series with Tom Goom
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Chapters:

• 03:36 - Recent research
• 05:17 - Management
• 09:26 - Restore ROM
• 10:42 - Rebuild muscle strength
• 12:07 - Return to sport
• 17:03 - Surgical & non-surgical management

Join David Pope (APA Titled Musculoskeletal and Sports & Exercise Physio) and Zoe Russell (Specialist Sports Physiotherapist, FACP; APA Titled Musculoskeletal Physio) in the Physio Edge podcast as they explore how to assess, treat, and manage patients suffering from ACL injuries or suspected ACL injuries.

You'll discover how to assess a patient with a suspected ACL injury, and criteria you can use to identify whether a patient may be suited to non-surgical management or is likely to require surgery. You'll also understand when immediate or delayed surgery is the best option, and how to guide patients through the decision-making process and different phases of rehab. Listen in to provide your ACL injury patients with the best treatment options. 

• Improve your musculoskeletal and sports injury assessment & treatment results with a free trial Clinical Edge membership
• Free Achilles tendinopathy video series with Tom Goom
• David Pope at Clinical Edge
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Rotator cuff tear arthropathy (RCTA) is a pattern of glenohumeral joint degenerative changes following rotator cuff tears, causing shoulder pain and stiffness. Subscapularis tears can also be involved in RCTA, or a significant cause of shoulder pain and disability.

How can you identify RCTA and subscap tears in your shoulder pain patients? How can they be treated, and do these patients respond well to non-surgical management?

Find out in this podcast with Jo Gibson (Upper Limb Rehabilitation Specialist Physio).

The handout for this podcast consists of a transcript and research articles referenced in this podcast.

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• Join Jo Gibson live on Facebook & ask your shoulder related questions every Monday
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• Download the handout above to receive the following articles

• Conaire EÓ, Delaney R, Lädermann A, Schwank A, Struyf F. Massive Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears: Which Patients Will Benefit from Physiotherapy Exercise Programs? A Narrative Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023 Mar 23;20(7):5242.

• Fahy K, Galvin R, Lewis J, Mc Creesh K. Exercise as effective as surgery in improving quality of life, disability, and pain for large to massive rotator cuff tears: A systematic review & meta-analysis. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice. 2022 Jun 10:102597.

Chapters:

• 03:25 - What is cuff arthropathy?
• 05:35 - Contributing factors
• 07:33 - Patient history
• 08:37 - Subscapularis tendon tears
• 12:29 - Common mechanisms of injury
• 13:46 - Assessment tests
• 16:51 - Rotator cuff related shoulder pain

How can you successfully treat hip pain and instability associated with your patients’ hip dysplasia? Find out the eight critical steps to excellent results with hip dysplasia in this podcast, which is part 3 in this three-part podcast series with Tom Goom (Running Physio).

• Physio Edge podcast 154 - Part 1 of 3 - Hip dysplasia key signs & symptoms with Tom Goom
• Physio Edge podcast 156 - Part 2 of 3 - 3 Types of hip dysplasia and how to identify them
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• David Pope & why I started Clinical Edge
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• • Download the following article associated with this podcast
  • Wilkin GP, Ibrahim MM, Smit KM, Beaulé PE. A contemporary definition of hip dysplasia and structural instability: toward a comprehensive classification for acetabular dysplasia. The Journal of arthroplasty. 2017 Sep 1;32(9):S20-7.

Chapters:

• 05:36 - Step 1: Assessment
• 07:10 - Step 2: Investigations
• 08:35 - Step 3: Patient education
• 10:07 - Step 4: Settling symptoms
• 16:25 - Step 5: Strength
• 18:15 - Step 6: Control and proprioception
• 20:08 - Step 7: Co-existing pathology
• 21:09 - Step 8: General health
• 22:32 - Key points

When a patient presents with a potential frozen shoulder, what other differential diagnoses must be considered? Find out in this podcast with Jo Gibson (Upper Limb Rehabilitation Specialist Physio), exploring the case study of a patient diagnosed with “frozen shoulder” with symptoms that don’t quite match a typical frozen shoulder. What’s the diagnosis of this patient’s stiff shoulder?

You’ll also discover whether an X-ray or imaging is required when a patient presents with a stiff or frozen shoulder.

Click here for the free webinar with Jo Gibson “Rotator cuff revealed! Rehab & reasoning”.

The handout for this podcast is the transcript associated with this podcast.

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• Get your access to the free webinar with Jo Gibson “Rotator cuff revealed! Rehab & reasoning”.
• Improve your confidence and clinical reasoning with a free trial Clinical Edge membership
• Join Jo Gibson live on Facebook & ask your shoulder related questions every Monday
• Download and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes
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• Listen to the podcast on Spotify
• Jo Gibson on Twitter
• Let David know what you liked about this podcast on Twitter
• Review the podcast on iTunes
• Infographics by Clinical Edge

Chapters:

• 04:03 - Case study
• 07:23 - Frozen shoulder or misdiagnosis?
• 10:21 - Screening tests
• 10:58 - Risk factors
• 17:14 - Key points

Hip dysplasia is a commonly missed cause of hip and groin pain. In this podcast, which is part 2 in the 3 part series with Tom Goom (Running Physio), you’ll discover three types of hip dysplasia that will cause different symptoms and need different treatment (based on Wilkins et al. 2017), how to identify each type, and common exercises and a treatment approach that may be stirring up your patients hip and groin pain.

Improve running injury assessment & treatment now with the Running Repairs Online course with Tom Goom at clinicaledge.co/runningrepairs

• Physio Edge podcast 154 - Part 1 of 3 - Hip dysplasia key signs & symptoms with Tom Goom
• Improve your confidence and clinical reasoning with a free trial Clinical Edge membership
• Join Tom live on Facebook & ask your shoulder related questions every Friday
• Download and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes
• Download the podcast now using the best podcast app currently in existence - Overcast
• Listen to the podcast on Spotify
• Tom Goom on Twitter
• Tom Goom’s website
• David Pope - Twitter
• David Pope & why I started Clinical Edge
• Review the podcast on iTunes
• Infographics by Clinical Edge

• Download the podcast handout to receive the article associated with this podcast.
• Wilkin GP, Ibrahim MM, Smit KM, Beaulé PE. A contemporary definition of hip dysplasia and structural instability: toward a comprehensive classification for acetabular dysplasia. The Journal of arthroplasty. 2017 Sep 1;32(9):S20-7.

Chapters:

• 03:12 - Signs & symptoms
• 06:05 - Assessment
• 08:05 - 3 types of hip dysplasia
• 08:28 - Anterior instability
• 09:58 - Posterior instability
• 11:42 - Lateral/global instability
• 13:29 - Key takeaways