Linda Truong is a physical therapist and PhD trainee at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. Her research aims to understand how social support can improve recovery outcomes and delay post-traumatic osteoarthritis after a traumatic knee injury. In this episode, Brooke Patterson asks Linda about her recent scoping review and editorial regarding the need to embrace non-physical factors in the treatment of sports-related injury. Linda provides practical suggestions as to how to assess and treat social and contextual factors after sports-related knee injury.

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Resources:

Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS)- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311534896_Multidimensional_Scale_of_Perceived_Social_Support_MSPSS_-_Scale_Items_and_Scoring_Information

The PASS-Q: The Perceived Available Support in Sport Questionnaire - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/50936606_The_PASS-Q_The_Perceived_Available_Support_in_Sport_Questionnaire

The ARSQ: The Athletes' Received Support Questionnaire - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261256629_The_ARSQ_The_Athletes%27_Received_Support_Questionnaire

Truong LK, Bekker S, Whittaker JL, Removing the training wheels: embracing the social, contextual and psychological in sports medicine, BJSM, Published Online First: 12 November 2020. - https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/11/11/bjsports-2020-102679.abstract