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There's an app for just about everything these days, including in musculoskeletal rehabilitation and exercises therapy. Have you been scrolling the app store wondering if there's anything worthwhile to recommend to patients?

Today, we're uncovering what makes a quality app for monitoring and promoting physical activity in chronic conditions, including musculoskeletal pain. Dr Alessio Bricca (Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark) and physiotherapist, Nikolaj Nøhr, share their latest research and discuss how to apply it in practice.

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RESOURCES

World Health Organization's global strategy on digital health (2020-2025): https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240020924

More on the quality of health apps available in major app stores: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35119367/

Research waste in musculoskeletal pain apps: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30324177/

Benefits and harms of digital health interventions for promoting physical activity: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37410534/

International consensus on research priorities for telehealth in musculoskeletal pain: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37789304/

Making sense of digital health data in primary care: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37096688/

If you're looking for a guide to testing function and readiness to return to sport after injury, you're in the right place! Dr Eric Hamrin Senorski (PT, PhD; University of Gothenburg, Sweden) shares how he blends his research training with his clinical skills to help athletes and active people with ACL injury.

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RESOURCES

Project ACL ("Project Korsband") registry: https://projektkorsband.se/

Quadriceps and hamstrings strength reference values for soccer/football, basketball and handball: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2022.10693

Hop and jump test reference values for soccer/football, and basketball: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2024.12374

Knee injuries after returning to sport following ACL reconstruction: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27162233/

Return to sport rates after ACL reconstruction: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25157180/

Dr Carrie Cooper does the lead climbing and helps you belay (see what we did there?) into the world of climbing. From bouldering to sport climbing—there's no need to go free solo (ok, ok...we'll stop now) if you don't know much about climbing. JOSPT Insights has you covered.

Dr Cooper discusses how climbing is like gymnastics, baseball, and rugby, with their shared hand, shoulder, and knee injuries. Some other key take aways from the episode are how to identify weakness that climbers are so good at hiding, and how to progress a return to climb program. Hang on; it’s good one!

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RESOURCES

Knee injuries in bouldering and rock climbing: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32004071/

Classifying and managing flexor pulley injuries: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30904240/

Health care practice is slowly transitioning from a paternalistic way of delivering care (doing to the patient) to a shared decision-making model (doing with the patient). Health systems, clinical professions and individual clinicians are at different points along the transition.

As a process, shared decision-making provides a scaffold for the patient's values, preferences and circumstances to receive primacy when discussing options, benefits and risks. As a mindset, shared decision-making is a standard of excellence in clinical practice - it ensures your are focused supporting the patient to authentically engage in decisions about their health.

Today, Diane Slater, physiotherapist and educator from Aalborg University, Denmark is helping you self-diagnose your shared decision-making practice. Diane shares tips for staying up-to-date with the best information to support quality shared decision-making, which she has honed through her work as a coach and mentor to musculoskeletal health practitioners.

Nick Kane, the head physio at Essendon Football Club in Australia, brings our attention back to Australian Rules Football. Like in all Sports Corner episodes, he reviews the demands of the sport, the common injuries, and key things to keep in mind when designing and progressing rehabilitation programs with Australian football athletes.

In today’s episode, we take a deep dive into the hard preseason work that goes into preventing injuries, as Nick shares the specific primary and secondary strategies his team uses to keep athletes healthy and performing at their best.

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RESOURCES

For more on the Sports MAP Network: https://sportsmap.com.au/

Normative isometric plantarflexion strength values: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1466853X23000469?via%3Dihub

More on the relationship between fascicle length and hamstring strength: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/24/1524

JOSPT Insights episode 138 with Melissa Haberfield: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0qizZvG0ESHDfvWhOxq1Nd?si=c052ab2987e141f8 or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-138-sports-corner-footy-the-game-they-play-in/id1522929437?i=1000619109573

JOSPT Insights episode 124 with Dr Seth O'Neill: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4n4wkxGK1hwBykR1MZyzJm?si=be616b82cc9542d6 or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-124-caring-for-the-calf-with-dr-seth-oneill/id1522929437?i=1000604944985

How do you approach evaluating psychological health factors when working with people in pain? Do you have an established process for screening? How about an approach to managing the psychological aspects of injury and health?

Athletes say they would like psychological support, while many musculoskeletal rehabilitation clinicians feel ill-equipped to provide appropriate support. What to do?!

Fortunately, Dr Kate Jochimsen (ATC, PhD; Massachusetts General Hospital) is leading a research program geared towards developing and evaluating mind-body interventions for chronic hip pain, and she addresses some of the clinical challenges in today's episode.

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RESOURCES

Psychologically-informed practice when managing sports injuries: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37647239/

More on the prevalence of hip morphology in athletes: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2021.9622

Physiotherapist-led treatment for hip-related pain: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31732651/

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Find out more about the Pain Science in Practice courses delivered by Prof Lorimer Mosley: https://tinyurl.com/25kzcfmh

Direct links for each of the North American Pain Science in Practice courses:

Vancouver, Canada (27-28 September, 2024): https://clinicalsportsmedicine.com/lorimer-moseley

San Francisco, USA (5-6 October, 2024): https://www.noigroup.com/event/pain-science-in-practice-moseley-san-francisco/

New York City, USA (12-13 October, 2024): https://www.noigroup.com/event/pain-science-in-practice-moseley-nyc/