Knowledge translation in sports physiotherapy: moving research into practical use

Physiotherapist Dr Michael Skovdal Rathleff from the Research Unit for General Practice in Aalborg chats with Dr Dylan Morrissey from Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS trust and Dr. Christian Barton from the new sport and exercise medicine research centre at Latrobe University in Australia. Both Dylan and Christian are clinically active physiotherapists working on moving research from journal papers into the hands of people who can put it to practical use. They discuss the challenges of clinicians being aware of the latest research and the researchers asking relevant questions. They propose to marry quantitative (eg. Systematic review) and qualitative (interviews, patient experience, clinician experience) approaches and they share examples of having already done this. Drs Rathleff, Morrissey & Barton will run a session on this topic at the Danish Sports Medicine and Physiotherapy Conference in Kolding, Denmark on 4-6th February. www.sportskongres.dk They’ll also speak on other topics (including running injuries) in an excellent programme packed with starts. Each speaker has many great papers and you can find two of those discussed in the podcast at these links: The 'Best Practice Guide to Conservative Management of Patellofemoral Pain': incorporating level 1 evidence with expert clinical reasoning. Barton CJ, Lack S, Hemmings S, Tufail S, Morrissey D. http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/14/923.full Conservative management of midportion Achilles tendinopathy: a mixed methods study, integrating systematic review and clinical reasoning Rowe V, Hemmings S, Barton C, Malliaras P, Maffulli N, Morrissey D http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23006143