The Physio Pulse Podcast

This week we chat through a paper that looked at surgeons answers to questions on knee osteoarthritis compared to ChatGPT.

Who comes out on top?

How can AI be used in healthcare?

How would you fare against AI at the end of a long day?

Are James and Jeff progressive thinkers or old at heart in their early 30's?

Find the paper here: https://www.thekneejournal.com/article/S0968-0160(25)00065-1/abstract

Please note, nothing in this episode is intended to be medical advice.

We review a paper with 5200 participants that tried to answer how best to analyse someones risk of injury with training load.

It's been making the rounds on social media, what does it actually show and how can we use this information clinically?

Please note, this episode does not constitute medical advice.

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/59/17/1203.full.pdf

This week we look at the new paper

"The effect of exercise time and frequency on the development of cam morphology" by M. Baldawi et al 2025

https://bmcmusculoskeletdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12891-025-08603-1

• What do we know about the development of CAM morphology?
• How do we define it?
• Could they be useful to athletes?

In this episode we sit down to discuss a really interesting paper all about how stability is produced in the glenohumeral joint. Concavity compression or Intrinsic muscle stiffness? Rotator cuff or larger muscle groups?

We go through the mechanisms and basic biomechanical considerations of this before discussing what we think this papers findings mean in clinical practice.

Use the comment function below to engage and ask any questions!

Please note, this episode does not constitute medical advice.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10439-025-03683-5

We're back for series 2!!

New logo but unfortunately for you, same hosts...

This week we're running through the brand new CALMER Cuff pathway from Fayh et al 2025.

- How should we manage cuff tears?

- How does surgery compare to conservative management?

- How do we discuss this with our patients?

https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2025.13342?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

This is a special episode to introduce you a fantastic resource created by friend of the show, Fin Murphy, who is an expert in ACL rehabilitation. If you haven't already, make sure to go back and listen to his episodes on solving patellofemoral pain after ACL rehab, and the influence of graft site on post-surgical rehab!

This will be an amazing source of information on everything (and we mean everything) to do with ACL rehab for both patients AND clinicians, so please make sure to give him a follow both on your podcast platform AND on social media.

This is the first episode Fin has released, so if you want to help him out, go listen to it through his podcast channel now... or kick back and press play here and we will deliver it to you! Enjoy!

Find Fins podcast page on Spotify HERE

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Find Fin on instagram HERE

That's us for the first half of 2025... holidays, babies and house moves keeping us busy over the next couple of months.

James and Jeff crack a few beers, have a few rants, offend a few nations and answer listener questions.

We answer a question from a listener about the benefit of NHS versus private practice as a new graduate before going on discuss a recent randomised controlled trial comparing manual therapy to exercise therapy in the management of persistent neck pain.

Finally we go on to discuss some of our considerations with managing people with neck pain.

Please note, this episode does not constitute medical advice.

We run through a presentation of shin pain that seems to evade any usual diagnosis.

Please note, nothing in this episode is intended as medical advice.

We had the pleasure of sitting down with Ben Whybrow the host of the Clinical Communication Podcast to discuss...

- Communication tips

- Difficult conversations

- How to handle conflict

... and cake...

Hope you enjoy!