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Products

• Buy Kinesiology Tape Online

Blogs

• The Sports Physio
• painscience.com
• Running Research Junkie 
• Mark Gibson
• Bad Science
• NOI
• Peter Malliaris Tendinopathy Rehab
• The Science PT

Injury Management

• Mechanotherapy: how physical therapists’ prescription of exercise promotes tissue repair (Khan, 2009)
• "Rehabilitation will increase the ‘capacity’ of your …insert musculoskeletal tissue here….” Defining ‘tissue capacity’: a core concept for clinicians​ (Jill Cook, 2015)

Return To Play

• Return-to-Play in Sport: A Decision-based Model (Creighton, 2010)

Injury Prevention

• Comprehensive warm-up program to prevent injuries (Soligard, 2008)
• Parallel Use of 2 Pairs of Running Shoes Decreases Injury
• Preventive Effect of Eccentric Training on Acute Hamstring Injuries (Petersen, 2011)​
• Less than 8hrs sleep per night doubles the risk of injury in adolescent athletes (Milewski, 2014)
• The effectiveness of proprioceptive training in preventing ankle sprains in sporting populations (Schiftan, 2015)
• Hamstring injuries: prevention and treatment — an update (Peter Brukner, 2015)
• Monitoring the athlete training response (Saw, 2015)
• Netball Australia program to prevent knee and other lower limb injuries
• Spikes in acute workload are associated with increased injury risk 
• Why screening tests to predict injury do not work​

Tendons

• Conservative management of tendinopathy: an evidence-based approach
• Time to abandon the “tendinitis” myth (Khan, 2002)
• Is tendon pathology a continuum? A pathology model to explain the clinical presentation of load-induced tendinopathy (Cook & Purdham, 2008)
• A "Pollypill" For Acute Tendon Pain (Fallon, 2008)
• Physiotherapy management of patellar tendinopathy (jumper’s knee)
• The challenge of managing tendinopathy in competing athletes (Cook & Purdam, 2013)
• The Role of Nitric Oxide in Tendon Healing (Bokhari, 2012)
• Isometric Exercise for Tendinopathy (Rio, 2015)
• A nice summary of things that cause tendon pain
• Shockwave for tendinopathy
• Postoperative management of acute Achilles tendon rupture
• Funky treatments in elite sports people: do they just buy rehabilitation time? (Cook, 2009)​
• A heel raise or orthotics for Severs?
• Injections for Tendinopathy
• Revisiting the continuum model of tendon pathology: what is its merit in clinical practice and research?
• Loading a painful tendon
• Ten treatments to avoid in patients with lower limb tendon pain

Recovery

• Recovery strategies

Barefoot Running

• Barefoot running: an evaluation of current hypothesis, future research and clinical applications
• Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runners (Lieberman, 2010)

Back Pain

• Imaging for Low Back Pain
• MRI findings in low back pain
• MRI for back pain has harmful consequences
• People with no back pain have pathology on MRI
• Is There An Association Between Pain and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Parameters in Patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis?
• Core stability research
• The Myth of Core Stability
• "My sacrum went out"
• Steroid for epidural injection in spinal stenosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Time to reconsider steroid injections in the spine? (Harris and Buchbinder, 2013).
• Conservative management of lumbar disc herniation with associated radiculopathy: a systematic review (Hahne, 2010)
• Common misconceptions about back pain (O'Sullivan, 2015)
• What does a disc bulge mean?
• Resolution of Lumbar Disk Herniation without Surgery
• SMH: Surgery increases despite failing to fix lower back pain
• Surgical management of low back pain

Pain

• Pain Medications
• What is Pain?
• What dictates how much pain you feel after injury?
• Trigger Points
• Fibromyalgia
• Pain Science Education - Greg Lehman

Stretching

• Exercises to prevent sports injuries - Stretching Vs Strengthening
• Should I stretch?
• Does pre-exercise static stretching inhibit maximal muscular performance?
• Fascia

Running

• Calf pain in runners
• Strength training for runners

Knees

• BMJ - Arthroscopic surgery for degenerative knee arthritis and meniscal tears: a clinical practice guideline
• A Controlled Trial of Arthroscopic Surgery for Osteoarthritis of the Knee
• Arthroscopy for degenerative meniscal tears
• Arthroscopic surgery for knee pain
• Patellofemoral Pain
• Assessing when it’s the right time to have a knee replacement
• ACL Surgery Vs Conservative Management (Frobell, 2013)
• Nonsurgical or Surgical Treatment of ACL Injuries: Knee Function, Sports Participation, and Knee Reinjury
• Arthroscopic surgery for degenerative knee: systematic review and meta-analysis of benefits and harms (Thorlund, 2015)
• Exercise therapy versus arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for degenerative meniscal tear in middle aged patients
• Considering knee surgery? Read this first
• Needless procedures: knee arthroscopy is one of the most common but least effective surgeries
  

Ankles

• Managing ankle ligament sprains and tears: current opinion

Surgery

• Question marks over orthopaedic surgery

Arthritis

• Exercise for lower limb osteoarthritis (Uthman, 2013)

Concussion

• Australian Rugby Concussion Protocol
• Australian Rugby Head Injury Form
• Australian Rugby Graduated Return To Play Protocol
• Australian Rugby Return To Play Medical Form
• ​World Rugby Head Injury Assessment (HIA) Protocol
• Head Injury Assessment (HIA) 1
• Head Injury Assessment (HIA) 2
• Head Injury Assessment (HIA) 3
• SCAT3

Other Stuff

• Microlife
• Physiotherapy Choices - A database of the best research evidence of the effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions

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