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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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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Podcast #155: Tendon & Cartilage with Jess Ellis

The Achilles Island: “It takes longer for an Achilles tendinopathy to recover and to get past that acute phase because it cannot hide. So it’s an island of itself. Now patellar tendon… it doesn’t have to be great rehab… A lot of times they go off and they kind of respond on their own, but…

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Podcast #154: Tendons, Dynamic Movement, and Rehab with Matt McInnes Watson and Derek Garza

Matt: “Where they [physical therapists] fail most is understanding the systematic approach to how do I scale dynamic movement?” Matt: “A return to run protocol. And you’re like, great, you’re teaching someone how to plod on the street. Like that’s useless. This guy is gonna need to stop on a dime. He’s a tennis player…

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Podcast #153: Tendon Rehab with Q Willy

PT school: “I found myself in the quote unquote, principal’s office a lot because I challenged a lot of beliefs. For better or worse, being fresh out of a master’s program in exercise physiology, I came in fresh with a lot of exercise physiology knowledge. And a lot of the initial year of your didactic…

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Podcast #152: Achilles and Patellar Tendons with Jarrod Antflick and Jon Houghton

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000727400660 Jon: “In the UK, if you do sports medicine rather than sports surgery, then tendinopathy is one of the biggest challenges.” Jon: “My background in rheumatology, I was seeing quite a lot of inflammatory disorders and being asked is this an inflammation issue? Is it a tendon issue?” Jon: “I think people often just…

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Podcast #151: Patellofemoral Pain with Colby Beecham

Tearing the distal biceps tendon: “It hurt real bad for like three seconds. And I was like, Oh, we’re good.” After Achilles surgery: “So went through the whole rehab process of that from surgery one for a year and a half, just rehabbing it, like really struggling with strength. Just like the push off ability…

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