Ep 181: The ethics of your clinical decisions, with Dr Nathan Vannatta

In today's episode, Dr Nathan Vannatta outlines some ethical frameworks that the musculoskeletal rehabilitation clinician might use when working through clinical decisions, including about return to play. Dr Vannatta outlines ethical theories and 4 approaches to bioethics. He explains how one might justify different decisions, depending on the ethical framing, illustrating the complexity of return to play decisions with the clinical example of 'Ellie', who is returning to soccer after ACL reconstruction. ------------------------------ RESOURCES More on ethics frameworks and return to sport decisions: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2024.12310