The Shoulder Physio Podcast

 AI is a direct threat to all knowledge work, MSK rehab included. We must take action. This episode announces the launch of The Irreplaceable Clinician. Its a course for MSK clinicians about how to flourish in the age...

Jared is joined by Professor Chad Cook who is one of the great researchers and academics in the field of physical therapy. Chad is clear and cogent voice on many topics but I especially love his more recent work on...

Jared is joined by Professor Jeremy Lewis who really needs no introduction but we will give him one just for fun. Jeremy is a researcher, educator, physiotherapist, and one of the biggest names in musculoskeletal...

The supraspinatus is one of the most misunderstood muscles in the human body. This episode aims to correct that. Key resources Reed D, Cathers I, Halaki M, Ginn K. Does supraspinatus initiate shoulder abduction? J...

A peanut isn't dangerous until it meets someone who can't tolerate it. Same with the upright row exercise. This episode scrutinises the "worst exercise for your shoulder" claim by tracing it back to a theory that's...

 Jared is joined by Tim Cook who is Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy at the University of Chichester, Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner in the NHS, and doctoral researcher to discuss their new paper with Prof....

Is there really one correct way to move? For decades, clinicians and coaches have acted like there is. In this episode, we prosecute that idea. We start in a 1930s Soviet forge, where Nikolai Bernstein filmed...

The question of allowing pain, or avoiding it, during exercise based rehab remains contentious and uncertain. So, like any good scientist, we (led by Ivy Tran) studied the evidence-base and sought an answer to this...

What is a physiotherapist? Strip away the hands, the exercises, the modalities, what's left? In this episode I argue that the "fixer" identity, the clinician who finds what's broken and corrects it, isn't where our...

Burnout in our profession is widespread, with most studies reporting prevalence between 8 and 23 per cent, and up to 65 per cent of recent graduates planning to leave physiotherapy within ten years. In this episode,...

Is more always better? Is there a dose response effect of exercise for musculoskeletal pain? Should exercise be just like a medication, where the dose has to be sufficient in order for it to elicit a therapeutic...

The FIMAGE study scanned both shoulders of 602 adults from the general population using high-resolution 3-Tesla MRI. Only 7 had a structurally normal rotator cuff. In this episode, I walk through what the study found,...