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Reading Rehab
by Michael Brown
We uncomplicate physical therapy research, so busy students and professionals can be confident with current topics in musculoskeletal rehab.
Episodes
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Episode 149: Yielding and Overcoming Isometrics
Article title: "Comparing the effects of push and hold isometric training on strength and musculotendinous adaptations: a within-subject randomized controlled trial" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42647753/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow…
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Episode 148: Subjective Versus Objective Autoregulation
Article title: "Autoregulation in resistance training: a comparison of subjective versus objective methods" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32058357/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram...
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Episode 147: Articular Cartilage Response to Cadence Manipulation
Article title: "The influence of running cadence manipulation on acute cartilage response in distance runners" The article can be found here: https://www.ovid.com/journals/sjmss/fulltext/10.1111/sms.70370~the-influence-of-running-cadence-manipulation-on-acute As always, if you enjoy what you…
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Episode 146: Conservative Management of Unstable Osteochondritis
Article title: "The conservative management of an unstable osteochondritis lesion in a male academy soccer player: a case report" The article can be found here: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/josptcases.2026.0215 As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite...
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Episode 145: Hardware-Software Framework for Injury Risk
Article title: "Reframing hamstring strain injury risk in soccer: a sprint mechanism-oriented 'hardware-software' perspective" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42636338/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and...
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Episode 144: Abdominal Tear to 100m Personal Best in 1 Month
Article title: "Accelerated return to competition following a full thickness abdominal wall tear in an elite sprinter: a data-informed case report" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42549193/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite...
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Episode 143: Primary Care Physical Therapy
Article title: "Primary care physical therapy: 2025 consensus definition" The article can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/ptj/article-abstract/106/6/pzag035/8650460 As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram...
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Episode 142: Can You Specifically Train the ACL?
Article title: "Understanding anterior cruciate ligament adaptation: structural, mechanical, and healing considerations" The article can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-026-02498-1 As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast...
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Episode 141: Isometric Exercise For Tendinopathies
Article title: "Isometric exercises for tendinopathies: a systematic literature review" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42203537/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram @readingrehabpod. If you...
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Episode 140: Should We Assess Motor Variability?
Article title: "Motor variability as a predictor of strength adaptation: the role of complexity in resistance training" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42171484/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on...
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Episode 139: Heavy Strength Training Raises the Roof
Article title: "Heavy strength training effects on physiological determinants of endurance cyclist performance: a systematic review with meta-analysis" The article can be found here:...
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Episode 138: Physical Activity and Pain
Article title: "Relationship between physical activity and pain in US adults" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36318739/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram @readingrehabpod. If you have any...
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Episode 137: If All You Do Is Squeeze...
Article title: "Not all weak squeezes are created equal: a clinical reasoning framework for interpreting low hip adduction force" The article can be found here…
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Episode 136: What Even Is Flexibilty?
Article title: "One of these things is not like the others: disentangling the concepts of range of motion versus flexibility, and flexibility training versus stretching" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41879914/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to…
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Episode 135: Return to Cycling Post Pelvic Fracture
Article title: "Return to cycling after a multiple pelvic fracture: a case report of a strength and conditioning based approach to rehabilitation" The article can be found here: https://www.jsc-journal.com/index.php/JSC/article/view/861 As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us…
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Episode 134: Is Increasing Cadence the GOAT?
Article title: "Single-step and cumulative knee loading during high cadence running" The article can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021929026001594 As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram...
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Episode 133: AI Fabricating Citations
Article title: "Fabricated citations: an audit across 2.5 million biomedical papers" The article can be found here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00603-3/fulltext As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and...
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Episode 132: Reliability of Countermovement Jump Testing
Article title: "Which metrics can I monitor? Test-retest reliability of countermovement jump and countermovement rebound jump force-time metrics in youth soccer players in season" The article can be found here: https://journal.iusca.org/index.php/Journal/article/view/418 As always, if you enjoy...
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Episode 131: Fascial Gliding??
Article title: "Effects of lower-leg fascial flossing on flexibility and performance in collegiate distance runners: ultrasound evaluation of fascial gliding" The article can be found here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13046454/pdf/ijspt_2026_21_4_158518.pdf As always, if you enjoy…
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Episode 130: Training Load Equity
Article title: "Equity in training load, research design considerations for intervention assessment in sports science and physical therapy" The article can be found here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12354113/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your…
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Episode 129: Jump Height Lies
Article title: "Jump height lies: force-time CMJ metrics reveal hidden neuromuscular responses in elite football" The article can be found here: https://sportperfsci.com/jump-height-lies-force-time-cmj-metrics-reveal-hidden-neuromuscular-responses-in-elite-football/ As always, if you enjoy what…
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Episode 128: (Sample) Size Matters
Article title: "When sample size is tiny, outcomes rare and clinical pictures fuzzy - Practicals ways to survive statistical pitfalls" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41235476/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast...
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Episode 127: MRIs, Hips, and Asymptomatic Soccer Players
Article title: "What is the prevalence of extra-articular and intra-articular magnetic resonance imaging findings in football players with and without hip and/or groin pain?" The article can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/11207000261416847 As always, if you enjoy…
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Episode 126: PT School and Depression, Anxiety, and Stress
Article title: "Depression, anxiety, and stress in doctor of physical therapy students: analysis of incidence and lived experiences" The article can be found here:...
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Episode 125: You Ever Heard of Freiberg Disease? Yeah Me Neither
Article title: "Evidence-based treatment algorithm for Freiberg disease" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37815268/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram @readingrehabpod. If you have any…
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Episode 124: Running Doesn't Kill Your Strength Gains
Article title: "Maximizing adaptations in concurrent training: an umbrella review of meta-analyses" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41762427/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram...
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Episode 123: Why Do We Love Bullshit?
Article title: "Bullshit makes the art grow profounder" The article can be found here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366828165_Bullshit_makes_the_art_grow_profounder As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram...
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Episode 122: How Does Quad Torque and Rate of Torque Development Impact Running?
Article title: "The influence of quadriceps strength and rate of torque development on the recovery of knee biomechanics during running after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37681433/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear…
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Episode 121: Managing Low-Risk Bone Stress Injuries in Runners
Article title: "Optimal load for managing low risk tibial and metatarsal bone stress injuries in runners" The article can be found here: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2021.9982 As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and on Instagram...
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Data Nerds: Long-Term Strength Delay Post ACLR
Data Nerds is a new series that we are introducing which will be alternating weeks with our usual journal club podcast. In this series, we share cases from our clinical practice where we utilize objective testing to inform our decision making, with most attention paid to the results of the tests...
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Episode 120: Assessing Ankle Dorsiflexion Range of Motion
Article title: "Restoring ankle dorsiflexion range of motion in athletes: an individualized clinical decision-making system" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41200427/ As always, if you enjoy what you hear, be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and…
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Episode 119: Movement Variability with Athletic Groin Pain
Despite talking about this article for 35 minutes, we don't have any clinical takeaways. Article title: "Movement variability and loading characteristics in athletes with athletic groin pain" The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36338351/ As always, if you enjoy what you...
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Episode 118: The Good and Bad of Treatment Based Classifications for Low Back Pain
In this solo-cast, Mike walks down memory lane to an article that somewhat set him down the wrong path during grad school. Hopefully he does a good job reflecting on his experiences and suggesting how students and new grads can learn from his mistakes. Article title: "Treatment-based…
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Episode 117: Rehab Protocols Following Osteochondral Transplantation
We're following up on our discussion from last week about conservative management of osteochondral lesions to discuss post-operative rehabilitation following osteochondral transplantation. Big takeaways from our conversation: due to the generally a wide range in timelines following these…
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Episode 116: What to Know About Knee Chondral Defects
Mike and Pat throw it back to an article from 2018 going over surgical and nonsurgical management of patellar chondral and osteochondral defects. Check out the episode for the full conversation! The article can be found here: https://aoj.amegroups.org/article/view/4405/html As always, if you…
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Episode 115: Our Favorite Articles We Read in 2025!
Mike and Pat recap their favorite articles that they read this year. Enjoy the 2 for 1 episode! The articles can be found below (Zanini et al., 2025) Strength training improves running economy durability and fatigued high-intensity performance in well-trained male runners: a randomized control...
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Data Nerds: Isometric Strength 12 & 16 Weeks Post-ACLR
Data Nerds is a new series that we are introducing which will be alternating weeks with our usual journal club podcast. In this series, we share cases from our clinical practice where we utilize objective testing to inform our decision making, with most attention paid to the results of the tests...
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Episode 114: How Fear of Reinjury Impacts Rehab
Throwing it back to an article from 2022: "Fear of movement and reinjury in sports medicine, relevance for rehabilitation and return to sport". Injury can be a life crisis for athletes, with potential financial, psychological, social, and physical ramifications for injury. In this episode we…
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Episode 113: Why Assessing Deceleration Is Important
Checking out an article that is hot off the press: "Assessing deceleration performance: methodological and practical considerations". Topics covered: why is deceleration important, different tests to assess deceleration, and developing the "coach's eye" for deceleration quality. The article can…
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Episode 112: Efficacy of Telerehabilitation for Managing Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Mike has a solo podcast going over a recently published article titled "The relative efficacy of different types of telerehabilitation for managing chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review and network meta-analysis". Some topics he covers are telehealth as a mode not a method, telehealth...
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Episode 111: Applying the British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification
This article is an oldie but a goodie. Published in 2019, "Hamstring rehabilitation in elite track and field athletes: applying the British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification in clinical practice" has a wealth of clinical pearls to assist in management of hamstring strain injuries. The…
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Data Nerds: When Means are Misleading
Data Nerds is a new series that we are introducing which will be alternating weeks with our usual journal club podcast. In this series, we share cases from our clinical practice where we utilize objective testing to inform our decision making, with most attention paid to the results of the tests...
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Episode 110: Intra-Articular Needling is a Thing?
This week we discuss periosteal and intra-articular electrical dry needling as a treatment for knee osteoarthritis. We really show our biases in this. We don't like it. Hopefully we put our thoughts together coherently enough to explain all the reasons why we don't like it. The article can be…
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Data Nerds: Single Leg Hop Testing
Data Nerds is a new series that we are introducing which will be alternating weeks with our usual journal club podcast. In this series, we share cases from our clinical practice where we utilize objective testing to inform our decision making, with most attention paid to the results of the tests...
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Episode 109: What Should I Know About P-Values?
This week Mike and Pat break down "Interpreting p values and interval estimates based on practical relevance: guidance for the sports medicine clinician". This is a short but dense article explaining the use and interpretation of p-values in research. Since p-values are so important to research…
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Data Nerds: Swimmer Post Shoulder Subluxation
Data Nerds is a new series that we are introducing which will be alternating weeks with our usual journal club podcast. In this series, we share cases from our clinical practice where we utilize objective testing to inform our decision making, with most attention paid to the results of the tests...
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Episode 108: How Does Strength Training Impact Endurance Performance?
Today is a solo podcast from Mike talking about "The effect of strength training on endurance performance determinants in middle- and long-distance endurance athletes: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analysis". While there are a lot of components to cover with this article…
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Data Nerds: Return to Soccer Post Patellar Dislocation
Data Nerds is a new series that we are introducing which will be alternating weeks with our usual journal club podcast. In this series, we share cases from our clinical practice where we utilize objective testing to inform our decision making, with most attention paid to the results of the tests...
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Episode 107: How Not to Create Normative Values for Strength
We're back talking about "Relative values of maximal isometric strength in lower limbs across different sports disciplines in high-performance athletes" an article published in Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research in 2025. The title and a quick skim brought our hopes up: having more...
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Data Nerds: Young Gymnast Following Osteoma Removal
Data Nerds is a new series that we are introducing which will be alternating weeks with our usual journal club podcast. In this series, we share cases from our clinical practice where we utilize objective testing to inform our decision making, with most attention paid to the results of the tests...
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We uncomplicate physical therapy research, so busy students and professionals can be confident with current topics in musculoskeletal rehab.
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