Lateral Think - The Melbourne Athletic Development Podcast

Lateral Think - Jack and John discuss the emerging evidence that is highlighting the use of nutrition for the optimisation of injury healing, health and performance. This discussion opens up the concept that the healing of connective tissue requires both mechanical loading and the nutrient environment to create effective adaptation. 

Lateral Think - Prof. John O'Donnell is a Melbourne-based Orthopaedic Surgeon, and was  one of Australia’s first surgeons to perform arthroscopic hip surgery  and anterior approach hip replacement. He has been active in the teaching and implementation of hip surgery over a long period of time. In this discussion we discuss hip surgical outcomes, the conservative/surgical spectrum and innovating and teaching of surgical skills.

In this episode Jack and John discuss complex thinking and adaptive systems including how to define human systems and ultimately what this means for healthcare.

Lateral Think - Paul Coburn is a senior clinical physiotherapist who has worked in elite sport, is the director of a successful private clinic, has taught at La Trobe University and has been involved for many years as the clinical lead for compensable agencies such as TAC and Worksafe. Paul's knowledge of healthcare practice, the implementation of effective health interventions and understanding of meaningful clinical frameworks is immense. In this discussion we explore healthcare frameworks, the evolution of physiotherapy practice and the use and exploration of technology in healthcare settings. 

Lateral Think - Dr Richard Fernandez is the Head of the Cadaveric Dissection Program at Latrobe University. His research is multidisciplinary and includes areas such as injury prevention,  anatomical and anthropometric measurements, impact biomechanics,  orthopaedic surgical procedures. In this discussion we explore how anatomy, its evolution and understanding influences how the human body functions and what this means for health practitioners. 

Lateral Think - Dr Pamela Boekel is trained as an Orthopaedic Surgeon, specialising in elbow and shoulder surgery. In this discussion we discuss surgical training, understanding the mindset of surgeons and how research is used in the surgical world. Dr Boekel shares her knowledge and pragmatic approach to healthcare problems. A great discussion for health professionals and patients alike. 

Jack and John discuss the expression power, how it is defined, and some of the nuances related to rate of force development across the force-velocity spectrum. This discussion dives into developing power across this spectrum and some of the underlying muscle-tendon physiology and what is required when prescribing power training across different age populations. 

Dr Lachlan James is a lecturer and researcher that has been involved in the development and delivery of the Masters of Strength and Conditioning at Latrobe University. Lachlan brings practical experience as a sports performance professional to his industry based research working in Mixed Martial Arts and Rugby to deliver and answer questions for coaches and sports performance professionals. In this discussion we dive into the development of physical characteristics, profiling sports performance and the link between research and practice in sport. 

Jack and John discuss skill acquisition and the role that sensori-motor control has on influencing the development of skills and bio-mechanical outputs. As a follow up to our discussions on running this episode looks to explore what affects the bio-mechanical outputs that we observe, how we can identify, teach and change bio-motor outputs to create skill changes. 

Helen Symon and Colin Mandy are barristers working in advocacy from corporate taxation to criminal defense and prosecution. In this discussion we explore decision making, the ability to gather and synthesize information and how these processes can be used to improve clinical practice. We lean into the ethical and philosophical underpinnings of knowledge and the law and how these considerations may be useful for practitioners in healthcare and performance.