This page is a list of links that you might find interesting...

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​
• 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​

Hamstrings

• Preventive Effect of Eccentric Training on Acute Hamstring Injuries (Petersen, 2011)​
• Sprinting: a key piece of the hamstring injury risk management puzzle (Edouard, 2022)
• Hamstring injuries: prevention and treatment — an update (Peter Brukner, 2015)
• Hamstrings (Leicester City FC)

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
  

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)
• Prospective comparison of running injuries between shod and barefoot runners

Back Pain

• 10 facts every person should know about back pain
• 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

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
• Strength beats stretch: inside The Australian Ballet’s exercise regime

Running

• Calf pain in runners
• Strength training for runners​

Running and Arthritis

• Is There an Association Between a History of Running and Symptomatic 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

ACL Rupture

• 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
• Impact of ACL Injury Management on the Development of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Meta-analysis
• ACL 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)

Patella Femoral Pain

• Patellofemoral Pain

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
  

Ankles

• Managing ankle ligament sprains and tears: current opinion

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?

Cortisone Injections

• Cortisone injections provide short-term pain relief but worsen the condition in the longer term compared with no treatment or placebo treatment.
  

Occupational Physical Activity

• The physical activity paradox: six reasons why occupational physical activity (OPA) does not confer the cardiovascular health benefits that leisure time physical activity does
  

Surgery

• Question marks over orthopaedic surgery

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
  

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
• SCAT5 - SPORT CONCUSSION ASSESSMENT TOOL

Other Stuff

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

---