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How to implement sleep enhancing strategies in football? – a talk with Dr Craig Duncan In this episode, we talked with world renewed sport scientist Dr Craig Duncan about the importance of sleep in high performance football. We covered the following subjects: - Effects of sleep deprivation on performance and healing times on our injured players; - Sleep quality and quantity for enhancing regeneration and recovery; - Strategies to reduce the ever increasing travelling and environmental demands in today’s football.

In the second part of this conversation, Strenght and Conditioning expert Mike Boyle gives us his opinion about: - Expected recovery time for an athlete after a strength session; - Relations between a S&C coach that works outside the club environment with his athletes… and their respective clubs; - Load management precautions on this matter.

In this sixth episode we talk with football manager Carlos Carvalhal from Portugal, who recently trained Sheffield Wednesday and Swansea in the UK. In this interview we discuss some aspects regarding this type of relation, like: main expectations from the manager about the work of a medical department; main flaws, if any, found in this department and how to correct them; and the up-growing role of the medical staff in training load monitoring and management.

Listen in this forth chapter to one of the greatest experts in Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) exercise, Jeremy Loenneke, professor at the University of Mississippi with his PhD in Exercise Physiology. Topics like the mechanisms behind this type of methodology, the best way to apply it in an athletes' population and how it can boost the rehabilitation process or an injury prevention program in a football player are approached.

For the third episode of the Football Medicine® Podcast we invited Steve Barrett, head chief of the Sports Science Department at Hull City FC, to talk about load management strategies, with special focus on RPE: its purpose, differences between sRPE and dRPE and their correlation with other external load measurements like GPS.

In the second episode of the Football Medicine® Podcast we talk with Prof. Dr. João Espregueira Mendes about the behaviour of cartilage injuries, the best surgery techniques used in a football player and the estimated time to return to play as well as indications concerning the load of this particular tissue post-surgery.