Jesse Elis (Director of Health and Performance at the Portland Trail Blazers‪)‬ Inform Performance

Episode 56: Andy McDonald chats Jesse Elis the Director of Health and Performance at the Portland Trail Blazers NBA team. Jesse is a PT with a background in professional tennis in the WTA and was formerly the Director of Physical Therapy at EXOS. In addition to this he is also the co-owner of Phoenix Manual Therapy. This conversation with Jesse is focused around communication, collaboration and biomechanics through Jesse's broad knowledge and appreciation for performance, leadership and sports medicine. 
 
 
In this episode Andy and Jesse discuss:
 
Jesse’s background
Current role at the Trail Blazers 
Communicating with players as a PT 
Communicating with management 
Risk management 
PT S&C’ collaboration
Communicating diagnosis with S&C’s
Biomechanics 
 
Where you can find Jesse:
 
Phoenix Manual Therapy
Instagram
LinkedIn
 
 
Sponsor
Inform Performance is sponsored by 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
 
 
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Andy McDonald
Ben Ashworth