PT Inquest

When you look at someone with a torn meniscus and some osteoarthritis, can you tell who would benefit from arthroscopy and who wouldn't? What about whether or not they would benefit from rehab? Would you be better than a coin flip? van de Graaf V,...

After acute hamstrings injury is it ok to push into pain during rehab? Would you actually get better results? If you didn't, why not? If you did, what would that mean? Join us as we look at loading up injured hamstrings with special guest ! Hickey...

What is evidence without interpretation? For that matter, what exactly is evidence? Or interpretation? Can you make an evidence-based statement without a robust evidence base? Djulbegovic B, Guyatt G. JAMA. 2019 Jul 19. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.9751....

A study shows that those with FAI who get surgery earlier do better than those who get surgery later. Does that mean patients should rush to surgery? Or is the reality more nuanced? Kunze KN, Beck EC, Nwachukwu BU, Ahn J, Nho SJ. Am J Sports Med....

"How do you feel now compared to how you felt before surgery?" is a common question asked of patients? But how well do they remember? Are they accurate or do they overestimate or do they underestimate? What effects can perception of pretreatment...

This episode is less about exercise programs after total hip arthroplasty and more about meticulous study design prior to data collection. We look at essentially having the paper written before the study begins - all you have left to do is plug in the...

Patient reported outcome measures (PROM) are commonly used to assess function in patients. But is that what they are actually measuring? Can we alter those scores in a meaningful way just through practicing the tasks mentioned in the questionnaire? ...

Brought to you by What do patients believe about knee osteoarthritis and nonsurgical interventions? Where do they get these beliefs? Can we change these beliefs? Even if we do will that make a difference? Bunzli S, O'Brien P, Ayton D, Dowsey M,...

Exercise works for pain..but why? Probably not for the reasons that we think. Does it matter? What a silly question... Smith BE, Hendrick P, Bateman M, Holden S, Littlewood C, Smith TO, Logan P. Br J Sports Med. 2018 Jun 20. pii:...

What happens when you go onto the interwebs and search for information from the websites of reputable organizations (government, hospital, university, professional associations, etc)? Is it accurate? Who defines accurate? What is the purpose of these...