In this episode Johnny and the guys tackle the somewhat confusing topic of cell swelling and what role, if any, it plays in the adaptation from BFR exercise application. They discuss why the cell might swell, what the literature has shown thus far, what are the short comings of the existing literature, and how one might incorporate this principle in an optimal fashion in practice.

In this installment of the Owens Recovery Science podcast Johnny and Kyle sit down to talk shop with Senior Director of Sports Medicine and Performance Reggie Scott, ATC, and Physical Therapist / Assistant Athletic Trainer Jon Hernandez, PT, ATC of the Los Angeles Rams. They cover a lot of ground in this one. You'll learn all about how they're handling the COVID-19 pandemic and of course how they've implemented BFR into an NFL training room in the management of injuries as well as to enhance performance. We hope you enjoy!!

Project 11!! In this episode Johnny and Kyle talk with ESPN Senior Writer and Injury Analyst Stephania Bell, PT, OCS about her documentary on Alex Smith’s recovery from a compound fracture of his right lower leg. Both Stephania and Johnny played key roles in Alex’s recovery as well as the piece. Johnny’s expertise in limb salvage, as well as his DOD connections helped get Alex access to facilities, strategies and clinicians experienced in managing the type of injury he was ultimately recovering from. Stephania has been documenting the progress through the generosity of unfettered access Alex and his wife Liz provided she and ESPN. You’re sure to enjoy this podcast as well as the documentary!! Watch the E:60 documentary Friday night at 7PM Eastern on ESPN!

In this episode Johnny and Kyle interview Heather Milligan.

Heather is founder and owner of Elite OrthoSport Physical Therapy located in Los Angeles, CA. She is a graduate of Texas Woman's University's PT program in Dallas TX and has also received her Masters in Business Administration from University of Nevada Las Vegas. She is a board certified specialist in Orthopedics and a board certified specialist in sports. She also maintains a certification in orthopedic manual therapy.

Heather and her team have been using BFR for several years now in their practice. The crew discusses what lead her to be curious about the technique, how she got buy-in from referral sources, and some of the early and frequent successes that drove their continued use.

Clinic Website: https://www.eliteorthosport.com/

Instagram: @eliteorthosport

Twitter: @EliteOrthoSport

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Elite-OrthoSport-Physical-Therapy-114194545842781/

In this episode Johnny and Kyle talk with the founder of the Chanda Plan Foundation and the Chanda Center for Health Chanda Hinton and her physical therapist Sara Schaffer. During the guys learn all about how they work to improve the quality of healthcare for persons with spinal cord injury as well as how they're using blood flow restriction exercise in this population. This is one heck of a convo with two inspiring and inspired people!! You don't want to miss a second.

Check out the Chanda Plan Foundation and Center for Health here!

https://iamtheplan.org/

In this episode Johnny and the guys tackle the complicated decision making process involved in choosing whether or not to use BFR when considering the risk of VTE. Below we’ve included the notes with bibliography that we worked from so that you can follow along if you like. We hope you enjoy it!!

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Caprini risk assessment - https://venousdisease.com/caprini-dvt-risk-assessment-app/

Bond, C. W., Hackney, K. J., Brown, S. L., & Noonan, B. C. (2019). Blood Flow Restriction Resistance Exercise as a Rehabilitation Modality Following Orthopaedic Surgery: A Review of Venous Thromboembolism Risk. The Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy, 49(1), 17–27.

In this episode Johnny and the guys discuss the recent paper published by Center showing similar adaptations in tendon with heavy load training and low-load BFR training on Achilles tendon size and stiffness.

They also tease a number of things in the works, like a soon to be published monograph they wrote along with Luke Hughes, PhD and Stephen Patterson, PhD for the APTA (that thing is 70 pages long!!), Johnny’s upcoming talk at CSM on BFR and Heart Failure with Larry Cahalin, PhD, PT, the incorporation of BFR into PT school curricula, and a PT textbook they’ll be contributing to amongst many other course and conferences coming up in the first quarter.

But the big one, the super cool thing…

Project 11! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJ8HQqwd4k

The two primary papers discussed in this episode…

Centner tendon paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31725362

Kubo tendon paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16871002

In this episode of the Owens Recovery Science Podcast Johnny chats with Jeremiah Randall, PT, ATC of the Houston Astros, and Seth Blee, PT, DPT of the World Champion Washington Nationals about taking care of elite baseball players, and how they're using blood flow restricted exercise as part of their athlete management.

In this podcast the guys take on the topic of Ischemic Pre-Conditioning. They discuss why it works and how clinicians might use it to aid their clients with their performance and rehabilitation needs. This one gets a little dense folks, but hang with us, we try to tie it up nice and neat in the end.

Here are a few of the papers that we discuss...

One of the earliest papers published:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3769170

Mechanisms of action:

https://academic.oup.com/cardiovascres/article/79/3/377/610360

Windows of opportunity with IPC:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1038/jcbfm.2014.42

Systematic Review of methods:

https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijspp/11/1/article-p4.xml

Use for recovery from intense bouts of activity / exercise:

https://www.jsams.org/article/S1440-2440(17)30249-9/fulltext

Review paper on use in performance enhancement:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095254619300080?via%3Dihub

Jamie Burr's Nocebo paper:

https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijspp/aop/article-10.1123-ijspp.2019-0290.xml

In this episode the guys breakdown some recent papers covering the acute physiologic responses to BFR exercise as they relate to pressure, and two papers on BFR in the rehabilitation of ACL reconstruction.

Here are links to the papers covered...

Warmington's pressure paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.01018/full

Hughes' Comfort and Pain paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1466853X19302214?via%3Dihub

Hughes' Effectiveness paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40279-019-01137-2