A - Z of links you might find interesting...
Achilles Rupture
- Management of achilles tendon injury: A current concepts systematic review
- Comparing Surgical and Conservative Treatment on Achilles Tendon Rupture: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of RCTs
- Early controlled motion of the ankle compared with immobilisation in non-operative treatment of patients with an acute Achilles tendon rupture
- Nonoperative or Surgical Treatment of Acute Achilles’ Tendon Rupture
- Early Motion for Achilles Tendon Ruptures: Is Surgery Important?
ACL Rupture
- Review: Annual Incidence of ACL Injury and Surgery in Various Populations
- The female ACL: Why is it more prone to injury?
- Risk of Secondary Injury in Younger Athletes After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (Wiggins et al, 2016)
- Evidence-based recommendations for the management of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture
- ACL Surgery Vs Conservative Management (Frobell, 2013)
- Nonsurgical or Surgical Treatment of ACL Injuries: Knee Function, Sports Participation, and Knee Reinjury
- Primary surgery versus primary rehabilitation for treating anterior cruciate ligament injuries: a living systematic review and meta-analysis / PDF
- Impact of ACL Injury Management on the Development of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Meta-analysis
- ACL Cross Bracing Protocol
- A Patient's Story: The Cross Bracing Protocol
- Healing of acute anterior cruciate ligament rupture on MRI and outcomes following non-surgical management with the Cross Bracing Protocol (Filbay, 2023)
- Evidence of ACL healing on MRI following ACL rupture treated with rehabilitation alone may be associated with better patient-reported outcomes (Filbay, 2023)
- Infographic. Primary surgery versus primary rehabilitation for treating anterior cruciate ligament injuries
- Treatment for Acute Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear in Young Active Adults (Lohmander et al, 2023)
- Melbourne ACL Rehabilitation Guide
Ankles
Back Pain
- The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard
- Common misconceptions about back pain (O'Sullivan, 2015)
- Imaging for Low Back Pain
- MRI findings in low back pain
- Variability in diagnostic error rates of 10 MRI centers performing lumbar spine MRI examinations on the same patient within a 3-week period
- 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)
- 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
- Recent data from radiofrequency denervation trials further emphasise that treating nociception is not the same as treating pain
- Lyrica for sciatica
- Tweeting back: predicting new cases of back pain with mass social media data
- Insufficient Evidence for Load as the Primary Cause of Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain
Barefoot Running
Blogs
Concussion
- Rugby Australia Concussion Guidance
- Rugby Australia Concussion Procedure
- Rugby Australia Head Injury Fact Sheet
- Rugby Australia Concussion Management Player Checklist
- Rugby Australia Medical Clearance Form
- World Rugby Head Injury Assessment (HIA) Protocol
- Head Injury Assessment (HIA) 1
- Head Injury Assessment (HIA) 2
- Head Injury Assessment (HIA) 3
- SCAT6 Sport Concussion Assessment Tool
Cortisone Injections
Hamstrings
Injury Management
Injury Prevention
- Comprehensive warm-up program to prevent injuries (Soligard, 2008)
- Parallel Use of 2 Pairs of Running Shoes Decreases Injury
- 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)
- 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
- The 11+ injury prevention programme decreases rate o fhamstring injuries in male collegiate soccer players
Knee Cartilage
- 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
- Assessing when it’s the right time to have a knee replacement
- 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
- Can even experienced orthopaedic surgeons predict who will benefit from surgery when patients present with degenerative meniscal tears?
- Early surgery is not superior to exercise and education with the option of later surgery for meniscal tears in young adults
- Early surgery Versus Exercise Therapy and Patient Education for Traumatic and Nontraumatic Meniscal Tears in Young Adults
Occupational Physical Activity
Osteoarthritis
- Exercise for lower limb osteoarthritis (Uthman, 2013)
- Effect of weight reduction in obese patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis
- Is There a Dose-Response Relationship Between Weight Loss and Symptom Improvement in Persons With Knee Osteoarthritis?
- Osteoarthritis, obesity and weight loss
- Lower extremity osteoarthritis: optimising musculoskeletal health is a growing global concern: a narrative review
- Three steps to changing the narrative about knee osteoarthritis care: a call to action
- What you should know about knee osteoarthritis
- The correlation between clinical and radiological severity of osteoarthritis of the knee
- Does Playing Football Really Increase the Risk of Knee Osteoarthritis?
Other Stuff
Pain
Patella Femoral Pain
Plantar Fasciitis
Recovery
Return To Play
Running
Running and Arthritis
- Is There an Association Between a History of Running and Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis?
- Does playing football really increase the risk of knee osteoarthritis?
- Low Prevalence of Hip and Knee Arthritis in Active Marathon Runners
- Long Distance Running and Knee Osteoarthritis: A Prospective Study
- Muscle dysfunction versus wear and tear as a cause of exercise related osteoarthritis: an epidemiological update
Stretching
Surgery
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
- Physiotherapy management of Achilles tendinopathy
- How to self manage achilles tendon pain and when to see a health professional
