The evidence for exercise and working alongside elite athletes with Dr John Orchard The OrthoPod

Dr John Orchard is a Sports and Exercise physician with over 20 years of experience. Dr Orchard completed his medical degree at the University of Melbourne and would go on to become the first Sports and Exercise physician trainee in Australia. Dr Orchard’s medical career has seen him working as club doctor to the Sydney Swans in the AFL and Sydney Roosters in the NRL, to his current role as Chief Medical Officer at Cricket Australia. Off the cricket pitch, Dr Orchard is an expert in muscle and tendon injuries and their non-surgical management, and he has a significant research background with over 300 publications, along with a role as Adjunct Professor in the University of Sydney School of Public Health.
 
Dr Orchard's website - https://www.johnorchard.com
 
Sports injury classification system - https://www.johnorchard.com/osiics-downloads.html/osiics-downloads.html
 
Cricket injury epidemiology - https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/36/4/270.full.pdf
 
AFL injury epidemiology - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0363546513476270