Ep 240: Swapping the gym for the field - return-to-run after injury, with Andrew Mitchell

How do you think about supporting athletes to return to running after injury? Andrew Mitchell is someone who has thought about it a lot, and refined his approach over years of practice in top football/soccer. In today's episode, Andrew outlines the 5 elements of his criteria-based approach. Andrew is a sports physiotherapist and strength & conditioning practitioner with experience working in the hospital, private practice and professional sport arenas, including in the English Premier League, the German Bundesliga and the European Champions League. ------------------------------ RESOURCES Evidence-informed return-to-running framework: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/josptopen.2025.0115 Criteria-based return-to-performance pathway: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/josptopen.2024.1240 On the path to perfoming after injury (ep 193): https://pod.link/1522929437/episode/NmEzODliMjAtYmIyZi00YzkwLWIwMzctNjU3NzI4NTY3ZWUz