Alex discusses a systematic review looking into the effectiveness of foot orthoses in the treatment of patellofemoral pain, exploring the lack evidence available and how we can make the best decisions despite this.

Article link:

https://tinyurl.com/OrthoticsPFPsysreview

This week's review is on heel lifts vs a calf raise exercise program for achilles tendinopathy!Full article:

https://tinyurl.com/liftvsexerciseachilles2020

Original review date: May 4th, 2021

Check-out Alex's thoughts on the latest plantar heel pain best practice guideFull paper (Open Access):https://tinyurl.com/PHPBPG2021

In this episode Alex chats with Jack Chew, a Physiotherapist and another communication and education partner for CauseHealth.

They discuss how and why Jack has been implementing CauseHealth ideas into his clinical practice. They also bust the myth that these ideas are only for 'complex' patients, spending most of their chat talking about injury contributors in high performance athletes, strength and conditioning and the problems associated with decision making for athletes in team sports.

Want to hear more from Jack. Follow him on twitter @JackAChew, or check out his other projects!

Physio Matters Podcast (https://physio-matters.com/)

Therapy Live Online Conference (https://therapy-live.co.uk/)

MSK Reform (https://mskreform.org.uk/)

In our third interview with CauseHealth, we discuss philosophical bias, i.e. how the way we think the world works influences how we read and understand research and results.

This helps us explain why we can have quite fierce expert disagreement, results that don't always match a study's conclusion and important considerations for how we design and therefore interpret research.

Alex summarises our second interview with CauseHealth and discusses how what he's learnt has impacted his clinical practice.

In our second interview with CauseHealth, we discuss dispositionism, their approach to evidence based medicine and how it can help us solve a lot of the issues we face with evidence based medicine.

We talk about how evidence that looks for one single cause of pain usually fails to see all the factors that are relevant, how we can use this understanding to better understand evidence, why we shouldn't just do RCTs and how we can be evidence-based when there's no evidence!

Alex summarises the key takeaways and his thoughts after doing our first interview.

Welcome to the first episode of our collaboration with CauseHealth, where we discuss the challenges with applying evidence based medicine.

We go through all the issues such as why evidence doesn't often match what we see in clinical practice, why guidelines seem to fail our patients and set the scene for how we can solve these problems.