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Your athletes workload consists of the amount of running, training and matches performed. Their current workload can be compared to previous workload to identify periods where they may be at risk of injury or setting back their rehabilitation (Gabbett 2016). Balancing your athletes workload during rehabilitation and afterwards is vital to allow recovery from injury, improved performance while avoiding further injury.

What do you need to monitor, and how can you monitor workload in an easy and efficient manner? Find out in this episode of the Physio Edge podcast with Tom Goom and David Pope.

You will also discover:

  • What is athlete monitoring?
  • What is the aim?
  • What do we want to monitor?
  • What are external training loads?
  • What are internal training loads?
  • How might we monitor athletes?
  • What do we do with the data we get?

Download this podcast now to find out all of this and more

Links of Interest

Enrol on the free webinar “How to perform a running assessment” with Dr Rich Willy

Reference: Gabbett, TJ. The training—injury prevention paradox: should athletes be training smarter and harder? Br J Sports Med 2016;50:273-280

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Helping our running patients recover and return to running following injury is our primary rehab priority, however we may also have the opportunity to help improve their running performance. Runners are often motivated by improving their speed, performance and times, and incorporating these goals into their rehab can increase motivation and exercise compliance. How then can we help our patients to improve their performance when returning from an injury? Find out in this episode of the Physio Edge podcast with Tom Goom.

You will also discover:

  • Why consider performance?
  • How might we assess performance in a more scientific way?
  • What are the benefits of performance tests?
  • How can we link it to other aspects e.g. gait analysis?
  • How does performance influence training structure and progression?
  • How do we optimise performance in injured athletes?

Links of Interest

Enrol on the free webinar “How to perform a running assessment” with Dr Rich Willy


Identifying how much running each of your patients can perform (their load capacity) during their rehabilitation is a skill. This podcast will help you develop your load management skills, and know how much running your individual patients should perform at each stage of their rehabilitation.

In this podcast with Tom Goom, you will discover:

  • What is load capacity?
  • How do we identify your patient’s running capacity?
  • How are your patient’s progressing in their rehabilitation, relative to where they want to be?
  • How can you identify what your patients goals are, so that you can help tie this into a rehab program?
  • What questions can you ask your patients to assess load capacity and identify the right amount of load?
  • What objective tests can you use to help identify your patient’s load capacity?
  • How should you adapt your testing with different pathology?
  • What tests can you perform to identify your patient’s load capacity if your patient has an Achilles Tendinopathy?
  • What measures can we use to identify your patient’s running performance?

This podcast is the first in a series of podcasts over the next few months with Tom Goom, where we will help to develop your assessment and treatment skills, while improving your results with runners.

 

Links of Interest

Enrol on the free webinar “How to perform a running assessment” with Dr Rich Willy

 

Related articles

Cook J, Docking S. “Rehabilitation will increase the ‘capacity’ of your …insert musculoskeletal tissue here….” Defining ‘tissue capacity’: a core concept for clinicians. BJSM 2015


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