Podcast #165: Deceleration and Achilles Ruptures in Basketball with Adam Petway
Advice from Boo: “If you really want to help Wallace, you need to get out on the track and see how he’s moving and see all of these positions that he needs to be in to be successful. And that might guide and dictate what you’re doing in the weight room, not the other way…
Podcast #164: ACLs, Quads, and Knee Tendons with Erik Meira
Getting bored with the hip: “Because like in a lot of things in the in this type of space, we thought things were really complicated and they are, ⁓ but we were making them way more complicated than they need to be. And when it turns out with a hip is you pretty much just…
Podcast #163: Lateral Gastrocnemius in Achilles Tendinopathy with Gabriel Fernandes
“Because it’s so hard to pinpoint each of the three muscles separate because the motor cortex area associated to the legs is deep in the motor cortex, we tested the triceps area as a whole. So we found that in runners with tendinopathy, they had increased inhibition. So if you have more inhibition, you have…
Podcast #162: Peroneal and Tibialis Posterior Tendons with Blake Withers
Podiatry: “We’re trained in biomechanics and biomechanics kind of forms the basis of our thinking… we’re trained in this kinematic model of the really older model of you have a foot, the foot rolls in, this is bad, this is faulty mechanics, we need to correct that with an insert.” “Even if you do treat…
Podcast #161: Rectus Femoris and Soleus Aponeurosis Injuries with Filippo Tilli
“These types of injuries are very silent during the training… the athlete can train with the injury.” Rectus Femoris Aponeurosis Injury: “We need time to remodel the scar tissue with long time isometrics, with static stretching, with dynamic stretching, with lumbopelvic control, and we have to work the stiffness with the sprinting, but with a…
Podcast #160: Patellar and Quadriceps Tendons with Jonas Riess
Jumper’s knee: “I tried everything. And the basic thing was stretching, rest. And they published something. It is called Gua Sha. It’s from traditional Chinese medicine. And you take a very soft stone and you scrape over your tendon. I bought this stone online. I did this.” “When someone reached out to me with a…
Podcast #159: Patellar and Quadriceps Tendons with Rodrigo Scattone
Bad case of patellar tendinopathy: “There was no increase in loading in the previous weeks, nothing had changed, and the guy had just a very severe case of patellar tendinopathy. He was a volleyball athlete, a very high jumper, and then I looked into the physical exam and he had a massive dorsiflexion restriction this…
Podcast #158: Achilles Tendons and CrossFit: Injury Prevention Strategies with Brent Fikowski
Brent: “Here just a week ago, one of my friends Samuel Kwant tore his Achilles. It was jumping over this log and then turning that into a sprint. Typically in CrossFit what you’ll see is rebounding box jumps, whether they’re box jump overs or just repetitive jumping backwards off the box, landing with both feet…
Podcast #157: Bilateral Quad Tendon Rupture Story with Jalen Shabazz
Link to the video of the bilateral quad tendon rupture: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3Ksb1QOcGU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Prior to the quad tendon rupture: “That day, I probably took the most lifts that I’ve ever taken, like leading up to a bigger lift. ⁓ I was just feeling good. I didn’t even have knee sleeves on. I was pain free that day,…
Podcast #156: Calf & Achilles with Dylan Carmody
“The calf and Achilles area is very biomechanics heavy.” “The foot is very close to the ground so any ground reaction forces that come through the foot are likely going to go through the foot and ankle.” “In my opinion, the further you get up the the quote-unquote kinetic chain, you know, it’s pretty hard…
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