In the first episode of this new series, Alex talks to prominent Sports/MSK Physiotherapists Adam Meakins (The Sports Physio) and Ben Cormack (Cor-Kinetic) from the Better Clinician Project about what is evidence based practice.

They delve into the myths and misconceptions about evidence based practice and deliver some simple take home messages about how you can become a more evidence based practitioner.

This week we talk about footwear prescription with this paper by Chris Napier and Rich Willy on the current science guiding footwear prescription.Full paper here:

https://tinyurl.com/footwearfallacies

This week Alex looks at an article discussing the link between chronic health and musculoskeletal conditions and whether we need to be considering integrated management.

Full article:

https://tinyurl.com/eicfm

This week Alex talks about an article which questions whether the focus of chronic plantar heel pain should just be the foot.

Article link:

https://tinyurl.com/chpmsc1

Alex finishes off his series of reviews on patellofemoral pain syndrome discussing the consensus statement for the use of exercise therapy and physical interventions in the management of the condition.

Article link:

https://tinyurl.com/PFPSConsensus

This research review synthesises for 4 studies trying to find out how we can choose which patients with patellofemoral pain would benefit from foot orthoses. It's not as easy as it would seem!

Article links:

https://tinyurl.com/PFPSOrthoses1

https://tinyurl.com/PFPSOrthoses2

https://tinyurl.com/PFPSOrthoses3

https://tinyurl.com/PFPSOrthoses4

Alex looks into an article to see whether foot strength and foot orthotics are a more effective treatment strategy than knee focused exercises. Spoiler, the article's title overstates the study's findings.

Article link:

https://tinyurl.com/orthoticsandstrengthPFP