Wed, 16 July 2025
Your patient presents with shoulder pain, and straight away you need to identify: Is it rotator cuff related shoulder pain, frozen shoulder, instability, or something else entirely?
In this podcast, Jo Gibson (Upper Limb Rehabilitation Specialist Physio) guides you through a simple, evidence-informed clinical reasoning framework to help you confidently assess and treat patients with shoulder pain. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and the latest research, Jo breaks down four essential questions you need to ask in every shoulder assessment—helping you identify red flags, tailor your treatment plan, and avoid common diagnostic pitfalls. In this episode, you’ll discover:
Listen in to strengthen your clinical reasoning and give your shoulder assessments a clear structure that helps you feel more confident—and gets better outcomes for your patients. Chapters:
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Tue, 8 July 2025
Your patient is running, playing sport, or jumping or lunging forward - an activity with fast eccentric or concentric activity in dorsiflexion,and suddenly they feel like they’ve been kicked in the back of the leg. They might hear a snap and have difficulty weightbearing, walking and pushing off. What’s your likely diagnosis? You picked it - an Achilles tendon (AT) rupture. AT ruptures are a devastating injury that can drastically impact a patient’s ability to walk, run, or return to sport. Despite their frequency, there’s a lot of uncertainty among clinicians, patients, and even surgeons around how to best assess, treat, and rehabilitate Achilles tendon ruptures. Patients are often fearful of doing the wrong thing and re-rupturing the tendon. Therapists often follow a non-surgical protocol of putting people in a boot, but are unsure how to progress, how fast to progress and what to do during and after they’re in the boot. An even bigger problem than AT re-rupture is the very common issue of an elongated tendon where patients have long-term difficulty with calf weakness and inefficiency, walking long distances, hopping, jumping, and returning to sport. In this podcast, David Pope (APA Titled Musculoskeletal and Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist) is joined by Prof. Peter Malliaras (Specialist Physiotherapist FACP, clinician and researcher with a PhD in tendinopathy) to explore the latest evidence, clinical insights, and rehab strategies for Achilles tendon ruptures. Peter draws on his extensive clinical experience, recent research, and the development of a specialist Achilles rupture service at OrthoSport Victoria to help guide your decision-making and treatment approach. In this podcast, you’ll discover:
Listen to this episode to gain clarity on Achilles tendon rupture assessment and rehab, and develop a structured, evidence-based approach you can apply immediately in your clinical practice. Timeline 00:06:23 Problems Physios and patients face with AT ruptures? 00:09:29 Subjective - How to identify a likely AT 00:12:03 Who gets an AT rupture? 00:18:45 Why do AT's rupture? 00:20:06 Misdiagnosis 00:24:14 Surgical or non-surgical management? 00:30:25 Elongation - Improve dorsiflexion or make the AT stiffer? 00:36:53 Safe loading in the boot & progressions 00:42:49 When to start exercising in the boot 00:46:08 Elongation - why is it a problem? 00:54:00 Bent or straight knee calf exercises? 00:59:55 RTP - How long does it take? 01:03:32 Surgical vs non-surgical timeframes 01:04:25 Assessment and diagnosis of AT ruptures 01:08:40 Initial management of an AT rupture 01:11:26 Education - What to tell patients 01:12:54 Imaging 01:14:57 Delayed presentation - How to manage 01:16:10 Red flags & complications 01:19:10 Walking - How to guide patients as they come out of the boot 01:21:27 Exercise progressions after the boot 01:23:48 Key takehome messages Get free access to the "Tricky tendons" infographic seriesUnlock the secrets of successful tendinopathy assessment and treatment with this free infographic series for therapists. Links associated with this episode:
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