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  • Tim McGrath - PCL Gameplan

    Tim McGrath - PCL Gameplan
    2026/08/05

    Episode 227: In this Gameplan episode - a collaboration between Gameplan & Inform Performance, Host Andy McDonald is joined by Consultant Physiotherapist and Director of Pitch-Ready Tim McGrath. Tim is a Sports Physiotherapist with over 23 years professional practice & professional sport experience. Most recently returned to Australia after working as Senior Director of Player Health & Performance for the Washington Commanders NFL team in the USA, Tim completed his PhD from the Research Institute of Sports & Exercise (UCRISE) at the University of Canberra on the topic of ACL rehabilitation and return to sport following knee injury in 2016.

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    In this episode, Tim shares his comprehensive Gameplan framework for PCL rehabilitation and return to play.

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    Topics Discussed:

    • PCL injury assessment and management
    • Sport-specific physical demands and rehab goals
    • Progressive training buckets: quad, hamstring, calf, lateral movement
    • Objective benchmarks for an effective return-to-play
    • Common pitfalls and decision making in PCL rehab

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    Where you can find Tim McGrath:

    • LinkedIn

    • Instagram

    Where you can find Pitch Ready:

    • Pitch-Ready

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    Sponsors

    Gameplan Is a Rehab Management System providing Medical & Performance Departments with a centralised platform to plan, track & manage the return-to-play process inside a data rich environment. Gameplan provides one platform to connect the people, process and data during rehab.

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    Where to Find Us

    Keep up to date with everything that is going on with the podcast by following Inform Performance on:

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    39 分
  • Athletic Shoulder: Gus Morrison - You can nail every number & still send them back broken

    Athletic Shoulder: Gus Morrison - You can nail every number & still send them back broken
    2026/08/10

    Episode 228: Ben Ashworth chats to Gus Morrison, BSc, MSc, ASCC. Gus earned his Bachelor's degree in physiotherapy from the University of Southampton in 2013, followed by a Master's degree in Sports Medicine at University College London. During this period, he sought mentorship from Ben, focusing on refining his expertise in data-driven shoulder assessments and rehabilitation. Together they published his Master's dissertation in the Journal of Physical Therapy in Sport, exploring the Athletic Shoulder Test's application in amateur rugby players. Alongside this, Gus achieved full accreditation as a Strength and Conditioning Coach through the UKSCA. He went on to establish the Shoulder Assessment Unit at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health, delivering a data-driven assessment service for athletes recovering from shoulder injuries. Recognised for his expertise, he has spoken at webinars and conferences, and recently co-authored a publication with Ben in the Strength and Conditioning Journal on the synergy between testing and training for shoulder injuries. Gus joined Athletic Shoulder in July 2023, where he provides comprehensive testing and rehabilitation services to a diverse clientele of athletes and patients returning to sport and exercise post-injury.

    Topics Discussed - The Four Buckets: Range, Endurance, Strength and Power - Why Capacity Is the Biggest Driver of Pain - Outcome, Performance and Process Goals in Rehab - Quality Assuring Tests: Spotting Compensation Before You Trust the Number - Motor Learning, Joint Position Sense and the L and Y Holds - RFD and the Athletic Shoulder Test as a Force Transfer Test - From Closed Gym Skills to Chaos: Return to Contact

    Where you can find Gus: •LinkedIn

    Sponsors

    Gameplan is a rehab Project Management & Data Analytics Platform that improves operational & communication efficiency during rehab. Gameplan provides a centralised tool for MDT’s to work collaboratively inside a data rich environment

    VALD Performance, makers of the Nordbord, Forceframe, ForeDecks and HumanTrak. VALD Performance systems are built with the high-performance practitioner in mind, translating traditionally lab-based technologies into engaging, quick, easy-to-use tools for daily testing, monitoring and training

    Hytro: The world’s leading Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) wearable, designed to accelerate recovery and maximise athletic potential using Hytro BFR for Professional Sport.

    BTL: BTL Industries develops advanced rehabilitation and performance technologies, including SIS DUO, Shockwave Therapy, High-Intensity Laser, TR-Therapy, Lymphastim and R-FORCE. BTL systems are designed to support recovery, pain management, functional rehabilitation and return-to-play pathways across clinical and elite sport settings.

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    Where to Find Us

    Keep up to date with everything that is going on with the podcast by following Inform Performance on:

    • Instagram
    • Twitter
    • Our Website

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    Our Team

    • Andy McDonald
    • Ben Ashworth
    • Nicola Graham
    • Steve Barrett
    • Pete McKnight
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  • Travis Gaudet - High Ankle Sprain Gameplan

    Travis Gaudet - High Ankle Sprain Gameplan
    2026/08/11

    Episode 229: In this Gameplan episode, Andy McDonald is joined by High Performance Physio Travis Gaudet, the Co-Owner & Director of Rehabilitation at Orka Performance. Travis regularly consults with Pro-Athletes, Collegiate Athletes, Youth Athletes, and general population alike. He has spoken and delivered workshops Internationally, and has consulted with athletes in the NHL, MLB, Olympics, CFL, MLS, Canada Men’s National Soccer Team, USPORT, NCAA and more.

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    In this episode, Travis shares his comprehensive Gameplan framework for a High Ankle Sprain in Ice Hockey players.

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    Topics Discussed:

    • High ankle sprain biomechanics in hockey
    • Phased rehab protocols for ankle injuries
    • Sport-specific movement analysis
    • Return-to-sport criteria and testing
    • Role of biomechanics research in rehab
    • Rehab strategies for hockey skating and shooting
    • Conditioning and neurocognitive training in rehab

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    Where you can find Travis:

    • LinkedIn

    • Instagram

    • Orka Performance

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    Sponsors

    Gameplan Is a Rehab Management System providing Medical & Performance Departments with a centralised platform to plan, track & manage the return-to-play process inside a data rich environment. Gameplan provides one platform to connect the people, process and data during rehab.

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    Where to Find Us

    Keep up to date with everything that is going on with the podcast by following Inform Performance on:

    • Instagram
    • Twitter
    • Our Website
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  • Alan Murdoch & Simon Harries - ACL Gameplan

    Alan Murdoch & Simon Harries - ACL Gameplan
    2026/08/18

    Episode 231: In this Gameplan episode, Andy McDonald is joined by both Alan Murdoch & Simon Harries to discuss their combined approach to ACL rehabs.

    - Alan is the founder of Elevate: Speed & Rehab, a performance rehab consultancy working with athletes from professional to Olympic level. With over 15 years’ experience, he specialises in the link between rehabilitation and sprint performance, using movement efficiency and speed-based principles to drive recovery beyond traditional timelines. -

    Simon is a specialist Rehabilitation Strength & Conditioning coach with a passion for problem solving the complexities of high performance rehabilitation. He has a PhD in Human Physiology and is an accredited ASCA Master L3 S&C coach with over 15 years of experience in high performance sport, having worked with athletes from a diverse range of backgrounds, including AFL, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Rugby Sevens, Water polo, and a range of individual event sports.

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    Topics Discussed:

    • Addressing High Re-Injury Rates
    • The Performance Rehab Triad
      • Load-Compromised Joint
      • Neuromechanical Deficits
      • Neurocognitive Deficits
    • Acute Phase Non-Negotiables & Gait Re-Education
    • Managing Quad Lags
    • Early RFD Training
    • Redefining the Plyometric Framework

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    Where you can find Alan:

    • LinkedIn

    • Instagram

    • Elevate Speed Rehab

    Where you can find Simon:

    • LinkedIn

    • Instagram

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    Sponsors

    Gameplan Is a Rehab Management System providing Medical & Performance Departments with a centralised platform to plan, track & manage the return-to-play process inside a data rich environment. Gameplan provides one platform to connect the people, process and data during rehab.

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    Where to Find Us

    Keep up to date with everything that is going on with the podcast by following Inform Performance on:

    • Instagram
    • Twitter
    • Our Website
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    45 分
  • Part 2: Alan Murdoch & Simon Harries - ACL Gameplan

    Part 2: Alan Murdoch & Simon Harries - ACL Gameplan
    2026/08/27

    Episode 233: In this Gameplan episode, Andy McDonald is joined again by both Alan Murdoch & Simon Harries for Part-2 of their combined approach to ACL rehab.

    - Alan is the founder of Elevate: Speed & Rehab, a performance rehab consultancy working with athletes from professional to Olympic level. With over 15 years’ experience, he specialises in the link between rehabilitation and sprint performance, using movement efficiency and speed-based principles to drive recovery beyond traditional timelines. -

    Simon is a specialist Rehabilitation Strength & Conditioning coach with a passion for problem solving the complexities of high performance rehabilitation. He has a PhD in Human Physiology and is an accredited ASCA Master L3 S&C coach with over 15 years of experience in high performance sport, having worked with athletes from a diverse range of backgrounds, including AFL, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Rugby Sevens, Water polo, and a range of individual event sports.

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    Part-2 Topics Discussed:

    • Addressing movement deficits post-ACL
    • Identifying common technical errors in acceleration
    • SEE, SAY, DO, DEVELOP Framework
    • Fast, Fit, and Skillful (FFS) Framework
    • 6-Level Skilled Pathway:
      • Foundational Skills
      • Individual Technical
      • Positional Unit Technical
      • Decision-Making
      • Modified Gameplay
      • Team Play
    • Performance Intent & Guardrails
    • The "Mini Pre-Season" Conditioning
    • Progressive Reintegration Framework
    • Monitoring & Graduation Markers

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    Where you can find Alan:

    • LinkedIn

    • Instagram

    • Elevate Speed Rehab

    Where you can find Simon:

    • LinkedIn

    • Instagram

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    Sponsors

    Gameplan Is a Rehab Management System providing Medical & Performance Departments with a centralised platform to plan, track & manage the return-to-play process inside a data rich environment. Gameplan provides one platform to connect the people, process and data during rehab.

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    Where to Find Us

    Keep up to date with everything that is going on with the podcast by following Inform Performance on:

    • Instagram
    • Twitter
    • Our Website
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    45 分
  • Sports Science Insights - Niklas Virtanen: Are we training the way we play? Or using outdated methods?

    Sports Science Insights - Niklas Virtanen: Are we training the way we play? Or using outdated methods?
    2026/09/01
    Episode 234: In this episode of Sports Science Insights Podcast, host Steve Barrett is joined by Niklas Virtanen, who leads the sport science efforts at FC Midtjylland. With over eight years of experience in elite sport and high-performance consulting, and backed by UEFA fitness coaching and physiotherapy credentials, Niklas has built his work around a data-driven approach to optimising player performance and development. Much of the conversation starts from a premise that is easy to say and harder to sit with: GPS has been mastered. Total distance, high-speed running, sprint counts — the metrics that once felt like the frontier are now table stakes, tracked by almost every club at almost every level. The interesting question is no longer whether you can collect them, but what you do once collecting them stops being a competitive advantage. ㅤ From there the discussion turns to what sits underneath the movement data. Niklas makes the case for IMA and IMU signals as a way of understanding how a player is performing an action, not just what action they performed — the accelerations, decelerations, changes of direction and mechanical signatures that separate two players covering identical distances in completely different ways. It's a shift from describing workload to interpreting quality, and it changes what sport science can offer a coach. ㅤ The episode also explores where that leaves practitioners: the discipline required to stop adding metrics, the value of asking better questions of the data already being captured, and what genuine progress looks like once the obvious layer has been solved. ㅤ Topics Discussed: GPS Is Mastered — So What Should We Be Doing Now?Using IMA/IMU Data to Understand How a Player Is Performing, Not Just What They're DoingMoving from Workload Description to Movement QualityWhat Progress Looks Like Beyond the Obvious Metrics Where you can find Niklas: LinkedIn Instagram — Sponsors Axon: Performance teams spend the morning after game day stitching together six systems before the coach gets an answer. Axon Perform fixes that. Every source you already use, Catapult, StatSports, VALD, Opta, OVAL, Wyscout, WHOOP, Garmin and the rest, connects into a dedicated Snowflake warehouse. Ask Axon, the in-platform chat, lets analysts and sports scientists query the lot in plain English. Reports that took hours now take seconds. Used by the Springboks, England RFU, Japan RFU, Sydney Roosters and a growing list of rugby, football & cricket clubs and federations. Your data, reports, measures and AI models stay yours, fully portable. See if your data is ready for AI at axonperform.com BTL: BTL Industries develops advanced rehabilitation and performance technologies, including SIS DUO, Shockwave Therapy, High-Intensity Laser, TR-Therapy, Lymphastim and R-FORCE. BTL systems are designed to support recovery, pain management, functional rehabilitation and return-to-play pathways across clinical and elite sport settings. VALD Performance, makers of the Nordbord, Forceframe, ForeDecks and HumanTrak. VALD Performance systems are built with the high-performance practitioner in mind, translating traditionally lab-based technologies into engaging, quick, easy-to-use tools for daily testing, monitoring and training Hytro: The world’s leading Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) wearable, designed to accelerate recovery and maximise athletic potential using Hytro BFR for Professional Sport. - Where to Find Us Keep up to date with everything that is going on with the podcast by following Inform Performance on: InstagramTwitterOur Website - Our Team Andy McDonaldBen AshworthNicola GrahamSteve Barrett Pete McKnight
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    34 分
  • Sports Science Insights: Dan Ramsden - Career Transition, Leadership & Concussion.

    Sports Science Insights: Dan Ramsden - Career Transition, Leadership & Concussion.
    2026/08/03
    Episode 228: In this episode of Inform Performance, host Steve Barrett is joined by Dan Ramsden — Head of Performance for Super League's Hull KR, promoted into the role after eight years as the club's Head Physiotherapist. Dan now leads the club's strength, conditioning, and rehabilitation programmes, bringing together medical and performance functions under one department. Alongside a physiotherapy degree and a PhD focused on concussion, he holds a 5th Dan Black Belt in Aikido, and specialises in injury prevention and building athletic resilience in a collision sport. At the centre of the conversation is Dan's transition from clinician to department lead. He discusses what changes when your remit shifts from treating individual athletes to setting the direction of an entire performance team, the skills that transfer from physiotherapy, and the ones that have to be learned on the job. The discussion also explores the culture required to build and sustain a high-performing staff — how roles are defined, how disciplines are integrated rather than siloed, and how Dan develops the practitioners around him. Dan then unpacks player availability and its relationship with training and match intensity, before moving into his research area: concussion, neck strength, and the role of rate of force development (RFD) as a measure that goes beyond maximal strength testing. — Topics Discussed: Progression from Physio to a Head of Performance roleCulture and development of a high performance teamPlayer availability and its link to intensityConcussion and the use of rate of force development (RFD) within neck strength Where you can find Dan: LinkedIn Instagram — Sponsors Axon: Performance teams spend the morning after game day stitching together six systems before the coach gets an answer. Axon Perform fixes that. Every source you already use, Catapult, StatSports, VALD, Opta, OVAL, Wyscout, WHOOP, Garmin and the rest, connects into a dedicated Snowflake warehouse. Ask Axon, the in-platform chat, lets analysts and sports scientists query the lot in plain English. Reports that took hours now take seconds. Used by the Springboks, England RFU, Japan RFU, Sydney Roosters and a growing list of rugby, football & cricket clubs and federations. Your data, reports, measures and AI models stay yours, fully portable. See if your data is ready for AI at axonperform.com BTL: BTL Industries develops advanced rehabilitation and performance technologies, including SIS DUO, Shockwave Therapy, High-Intensity Laser, TR-Therapy, Lymphastim and R-FORCE. BTL systems are designed to support recovery, pain management, functional rehabilitation and return-to-play pathways across clinical and elite sport settings. VALD Performance, makers of the Nordbord, Forceframe, ForeDecks and HumanTrak. VALD Performance systems are built with the high-performance practitioner in mind, translating traditionally lab-based technologies into engaging, quick, easy-to-use tools for daily testing, monitoring and training Hytro: The world’s leading Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) wearable, designed to accelerate recovery and maximise athletic potential using Hytro BFR for Professional Sport. - Where to Find Us Keep up to date with everything that is going on with the podcast by following Inform Performance on: InstagramTwitterOur Website - Our Team Andy McDonaldBen AshworthNicola GrahamSteve Barrett Pete McKnight
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    37 分
  • Accelerate - Jordan Stewart-Mackie: Sports Tech Implementation

    Accelerate - Jordan Stewart-Mackie: Sports Tech Implementation
    2026/08/24

    Episode 232: In this episode of Accelerate Podcast, host Nicola Graham is joined by Jordan Stewart-Mackie an Applied Performance Scientist and PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham, where his research focuses on wearable technology and data integration.

    Jordan's work has spanned some of the most contrasting environments in world sport — from the Premier League to Thai football to NBA Academy Africa — settings where resources, infrastructure, and staffing vary dramatically. That range has given him a rare view of what actually determines whether technology succeeds: not the sophistication of the device, but the system and the people around it.

    ㅤ At the centre of the conversation is the translation problem in sports tech: the gap between what data can tell us and what practitioners can act on. Jordan has built a set of structured models to close it — BISA for technology selection and evaluation, SFQT for turning data into actionable decisions, PLACE for cultural readiness and implementation stickiness, and ATRIS, the end-to-end system that connects those layers.

    ㅤ The discussion also explores why human connection remains the deciding factor in adoption, and how educating and empowering athletes — rather than simply monitoring them — turns data from something done to a squad into something they buy into.

    ㅤ Topics Discussed:

    • The Translation Problem in Sports Tech
    • Building Frameworks for Implementation: BISA, SFQT, PLACE & ATRIS
    • The Need for Human Connection
    • Empowering and Educating Athletes to Aid Adoption

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    Where you can find Jordan:

    • LinkedIn

    • Instagram

    • JSM Performance

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    Sponsors

    Gameplan Is a Rehab Management System providing Medical & Performance Departments with a centralised platform to plan, track & manage the return-to-play process inside a data rich environment. Gameplan provides one platform to connect the people, process and data during rehab.

    VALD Performance, makers of the Nordbord, Forceframe, ForeDecks and HumanTrak. VALD Performance systems are built with the high-performance practitioner in mind, translating traditionally lab-based technologies into engaging, quick, easy-to-use tools for daily testing, monitoring and training

    Hytro: The world’s leading Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) wearable, designed to accelerate recovery and maximise athletic potential using Hytro BFR for Professional Sport.

    BTL: BTL Industries develops advanced rehabilitation and performance technologies, including SIS DUO, Shockwave Therapy, High-Intensity Laser, TR-Therapy, Lymphastim and R-FORCE. BTL systems are designed to support recovery, pain management, functional rehabilitation and return-to-play pathways across clinical and elite sport settings.

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    Where to Find Us

    Keep up to date with everything that is going on with the podcast by following Inform Performance on:

    • Instagram
    • Twitter
    • Our Website
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    54 分