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 cover topics including language around assessing fear and fearful movements, benefit of graded exposure to fearful movements, and how we can fear the unknown.

The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34971375/

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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 be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41307885/

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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 modalities can be used together, and how can telehealth differ from in-person rehab.

The article can be found here: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2025.13366

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