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Join us as we unpack the Healthy Injury-Free Adolescent Athletes (HIFAA) study — a landmark project following teenage athletes to uncover what really drives sports injury risk. From training load to mental health, we explore how these factors interact, and what coaches, parents, and health professionals can do to keep young players performing and injury-free.Link to the study: Prospective cohort study identifying risk factors for sports injuries in adolescent athletes: the Healthy Injury-Free Adolescent Athletes (HIFAA) study - PubMed

Resources for Physiotherapy Students is your go-to podcast for mastering the anatomy, assessment, and clinical reasoning skills you’ll need on placement and in practice.

EPISODE INFORMATION: Test your knowledge of ankle anatomy in this interactive quiz-style episode with Dr Andrew Ross from Victoria University. We’ll cover the key bones, ligaments, and muscles of the ankle joint, as well as common clinical pearls such as the Ottawa Ankle Rules, ligament injury mechanisms, and functional testing tips. You’ll also learn about typical ankle sprain grading, recovery timelines, and rehabilitation principles to help bridge the gap between theory and clinical practice.

Welcome to our 10-minute knee anatomy quiz podcast, designed specifically for student physiotherapists and early career physios. This episode is packed with essential knowledge that your clinical educators will expect you to have on placement.

Anatomical knowledge is the cornerstone of physiotherapy practice and mastering it early will set you up for success in understanding pathology, clinical reasoning, and treatment approaches.

Join us as we test your knee anatomy knowledge through a series of 15 questions. Millie, our resident anatomy expert, will guide you through each question, pausing to give you time to think before providing the correct answer and some helpful context.

Don’t worry if you don’t get everything right—this is a valuable learning opportunity to identify areas where you might need to focus your study. Plus, we’ve included some clinical pearls along the way to enhance your understanding.

Tune in and get ready to boost your knee anatomy knowledge!

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On average, professional football teams experience significant time loss due to hamstring injuries. The average days lost for each hamstring injury typically results in about 17 to 25 days of lost time.

A professional football team can expect around five hamstring injuries per season, leading to more than 80 days of lost football activities (training or matches) and approximately 14 missed matches.

This podcast delves into a paper published in 2019 outlining the Return-to-Play Practices Following Hamstring Injury.

The paper can be accessed here: Return-to-Play Practices Following Hamstring Injury: A Worldwide Survey of 131 Premier League Football Teams | Sports Medicine

The Sports Injury Prevention podcast discusses the Aspetar clinical practice guideline on rehabilitation after ACL reconstruction.

Access to paper can be found here:Aspetar clinical practice guideline on rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction | British Journal of Sports Medicine

Infographic:Infographic. Aspetar clinical practice guideline on rehabilitation after ACL reconstruction: an interactive figure | British Journal of Sports Medicine

In this episode we unpack a recent publication, The FIFA 11+: Why is adherence so challenging? Insights from a cross-sectional study of stakeholders in Australian amateur football (soccer).

The paper can be found here:

We also introduce Football Australia's Perform + (

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This podcast episode delves into the critical area of nationwide sports injury prevention strategies, drawing from a recent scoping review. The discussion highlights the potential for such strategies to improve public health and reduce medical costs. While many countries have implemented these strategies with positive results, the podcast will explore the types of approaches that have been taken, including protective equipment recommendations, multifaceted programs, rule and policy changes, and injury prevention exercise programs.

A key focus of the podcast will be the challenges in implementing these programs in real-world settings. The episode will emphasize the need for a comprehensive implementation plan that addresses issues of player availability, coach support, and environmental factors. The podcast also explores the importance of considering the context of implementation, involving stakeholders, and collecting data on reach, adoption and maintenance of the intervention.

Links to the papers discussed:

- Nationwide sports injury prevention strategies: A scoping review - PubMed

- Challenges when implementing an evidence-based exercise injury prevention training program in community-level sport: A case study

- Increasing the Scale of Population Health Interventions: A Guide

- Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool: A decision support tool for health policy makers and implementers | Health Research Policy and Systems | Full Text

This PhD thesis examines the population burden of amateur football injuries in Australia. It uses a three-year retrospective analysis of sports injury insurance data to analyse injury incidence, costs (both direct and indirect), and characteristics, stratified by age and sex.

The research also investigates the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on injury rates and explores injury prevention behaviours among various stakeholders (players, coaches, and medical staff) through surveys. Findings highlight the substantial economic burden of injuries, particularly ACL tears and underscores the need for improved injury prevention strategies.

Several associated publications are included as chapters

Chapter two: ⁠'Benched' the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on injury incidence in sub-elite football in Australia: a retrospective population study using injury insurance records - PubMed⁠

Chapter three: ⁠Direct and indirect costs associated with injury in sub-elite football in Australia: a population study using 3 years of sport insurance records - PubMed⁠

Chapter four: ⁠Insurance cost and injury characteristics of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in sub-elite football: A population analysis involving 3 years of Australian insurance data - PubMed⁠

Chapter five: ⁠Insurance cost and injury characteristics of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in sub-elite football: A population analysis involving 3 years of Australian insurance data - PubMed⁠

Chapter six: ⁠The economics of a national anterior cruciate ligament injury prevention program for amateur football players: a Markov model analysis | The Medical Journal of Australia⁠

Chapter seven: ⁠The FIFA 11 + : Why is adherence so challenging? Insights from a cross-sectional study of stakeholders in Australian amateur football (soccer) - Andrew G. Ross, Marnee J. McKay, Evangelos Pappas, Matthew Whalan, Elia Parsanejad, Kerry Peek, 2024