Sports Injury Central Podcast featuring Pro Football Doc

Dr. Chao reacts to JJ Watt and Zach Ertz playing through postseason games with injuries and talks about the importance of treating every individual injury and case different. Brian Westbrook talks about the turnover of the Eagles medical staff in recent years and how he played much of his high school and college football seasons with a torn ACL before Dr. Chao gives the injury rundown for every playoff team and hands out the beast of the week award.

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Dr. Chao closeout the decade by reviewing the advances in player safety the last 10 years, how Junior Seau's death helped with CTE awareness, Phillip Rivers' heartfelt season ending press conference, and runs down the injuries for each playoff team before crowning a beast of the week!

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Dr. Chao looks at teams that decide to rest players late in season based on whether or not they are in the playoff hunt and shares a story of how he got home once when there was plane trouble in leu of what the Dallas Cowboys dealt with over the weekend. Pro Bowl Center Eric Wood talks about the diagnosis he received that ended his NFL career prematurely before Dr. Chao gives this week's injury rundown and crowns a Beast of the Week!

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Dr. Chao gives a pair of personal stories, one involving an interesting experience with technological failures in Oakland and another with how serious the New England Patriots are of gathering intel. Cousin Sal joins Dr. Chao to talk about the big news and notes from the week before the injury rundown and beast of the week crowning!

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Dr. Chao looks at Baker Mayfield's comments on how the medical staff is handling Odell Beckham Jr's injury and how it has become the new norm in the NFL, Cam Newtons foot surgery, & whether Tua Tagovailoa should go pro. Ken Ramirez of Body Armor & the Junior Seau Foundation talks about the 25th anniversary of the "Shop With The Jock" event of giving before Dr. Chao gives the injury rundown and crowns a beast of the week!

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Dr. Chao explains how flu season my have contributed to the New England Patriots loss to the Houston Texans and why the NFL acted the way they did in banning Josh Shaw. SiriusXM Fantasy host Ray Flowers goes gives tips on setting lineups for the fantasy football playoffs before Dr. Chao gives the injury rundown and crowns a beast of the week!

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Dr. Chao looks at the reasons why sometimes the NFL has a bunch of games in the 1:00 pm eastern window as compared to the 4:00 window, distrust between players and medical teams, and why he does not like players being labeled injury prone. CBS Sports NFL analyst Will Brinson joins Dr. Chao before the week's injuries are recapped and a beast of the week is crowned!

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Dr. Chao goes in depth on Tua Tagovailoa's hip injury and how it will affect his career and whether he can come back. He also talks about a way to expand the NFL schedule to more than 16 games before talking to Geoff Schwartz about some of the injuries he played through and how the offensive line positions have evolved and become more complex prior to giving the injury rundown and a beast of the week!

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Dr. Chao looks at how injuries and whether or not a team has a timeout can alter the end of a game and his proposal to make an unfortunate injury not be insult to that team as well. NFL Network reporter Tom Pelissero talks about how he goes about reporting injuries before Dr. Chao gives this week's injury rundown and awards a beast of the week!

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Dr, Chao gives an in-depth breakdown on the Trent Williams situation, talks to ESPN's Damien Woody about the Jets, Patriots and a player's mindset on front office ordeals. Dr. Chao looks at the key injuries an updates from the week before awarding a beast of the week!

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