ASCA Podcast #49 - Selwyn Griffith

Selwyn has been an integral part of the Brisbane Lions High Performance Department for seven years, during this time he has held a number of positions both in the Medical and Strength and Conditioning Departments. His current role involves the development and implementation of strength and power programs for the AFL squad and rehabilitation and return to performance programs for injured athletes, including strength and power assessments and programming, re-conditioning and training load management. He holds a Masters in Osteopathy from RMIT and a Masters in High Performance Sport from ACU, the combination of medical, sports science and strength and conditioning education has helped develop an extensive knowledge of rehabilitation and return to performance practices. QUOTES “With any injury, you have to respect the timelines around tissue healing timelines even with a criterion-based approach” “In the reconditioning process, focus on developing the athlete rather than just rehabbing the injury” “Pain is not to be feared, it is be respected” “Managing the emotions outside of training for the athlete is probably the second most important thing for us outside of our criterion approach” “Use eccentrics to create a neuro-muscular stimulus to increase strength or improve resilience” “Try to limit changes to strength & power program as much as possible for guys coming back from injury” “Manage athletes' emotion around any discomfort they are feeling with data from objective markers” “We prioritise psychco-social component first and then use objective data to help guide the athlete” SHOWNOTES 1) Selwyn’s path from back pain to osteopathy to the Brisbane Lions 2) An athlete-centered model to reconditioning plus changing the language around rehab and using a criterion based approach 3) Isometrics before eccentrics or vice versa in rehab? 4) Using imaging and other objective markers from ForceDecks and Nordboard 5) Maintaining chronic load by returning to "running" asap 6) Combining sRPE, mental fatigue, wellness and HAGOS scores to manage the reconditioning process 7) The benefits of aligning any injured athlete's training with main group as much as possible 8) What a week looks like at Bribane Lions for an athlete returning from a hamstring strain 9) Monitoring across all modalities and how to periodise the reconditioning process 10) The use of BFR in early stage soft tissue injury as well as nutritional interventions for injured athletes PEOPLE MENTIONED Brett Burton Jack Hickey Nick Murray Connor Gleadhill Jarrod Wade David Watts Nic West Dave Opar