James was off climbing in the Alps this week so Jeff seized the opportunity to talk more ACL with Mr. ACL himself, Fin Murphy, without the usual judgement from James about how this might be becoming a lower limb podcast!

We cover everything to do with rehab considerations of the big 3 donor sites for ACL rehab. Great practical takeaways throughout this one!

Please note, this episode does not constitute medical advice.

Dylan Carmody joins us this week to talk to us about:

Anatomical and Functional considerations we need to understand when rehabilitating the calf complex

What objective tests we can use to help guide our rehabilitation and advice

Rehabilitation tips and tricks

James' cross sectionally challenged calves.

Check out his amazing value calf force profiling book here!

This week we are discussing the new secondary analysis of the KANON study from this year...

Do conservatively managed ACL's that show healing actually get better outcomes long term?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03635465251339061?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org

This week we discuss one of Jeff's go-to papers on everything to do with meniscectomy. We also touch on high tibial osteotomy and chondral cartilage surgery!

This is the last week of Jeff's launch sale for 'The Force Awakens: How to REALLY use biomechanics in clinical practice' - enter code LAUNCH20 at the checkout through the link in his instagram bio!

Find the paper we discussed on this episode HERE

Please note, this episode does not constitute medical advice.

Apologies for missing last week...

But we are back with one of James' favourite ever studies looking at sham exercise vs strengthening for GTPS

Definitely a study that raises a lot of talking points, hope you enjoy!

This week we are re-releasing our first ever proper episode on two RCT's exploring the question of whether there is a difference between ACL reconstruction and non-operative management!

Please note, this epidsode does not constitute medical advice.

We're always told to avoid dorsiflexion with insertional Achilles tendinopathies, but is this accurate?

We discuss the 2025 paper - Effectiveness of reducing tendon compression in the rehabilitation of insertional Achilles tendinopathy: a randomised clinical trialhttps://bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/9/640.long

Jeff discusses a rationale he can see to justify the use of a bosu ball, despite not actually using them himself!

Paper for affordances and chronic pain HERE

Embodied pain HERE

Enactive biopsychosocial model HERE

Please note, this episode does not constitute medical advice.