The Thrive Physio Podcast

This week we welcome hip specialist physiotherapist Mehmet Gem to the podcast. After a few weeks of chatting around education, culture and MDT relationships we return to some clinical chat around Mem's specialist area of hips and specifically FAI. Mem has vast experience around this condition as both a patient and therapist!

Mem gives us his recommended research around this area and he discusses a few other contentious FAI related topics, before taking on our weekly key questions and offering up some excellent advice for students and physios looking to get into sport physiotherapy and rehab environments! 

The Warwick agreement can be found here: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/19/1169

You can find Mem @Mgemphysio on instagram and of course we are @thrivepes on instagram and twitter. 

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This week we welcome Jon Goodwin to the podcast to discuss everything sports science, strength & conditioning and the relationship with physiotherapists.  Jon shares his experiences as a Sports Rehabilitation and Biomechanical Engineering MSc graduate, turned sprint coach and S & C coach, all whilst setting up and managing degree programs at St Mary's University. 

These experiences allowed Jon to give us some excellent advice, taken from years of being around multiple different academic and sporting environments, which students and graduates alike can apply to their studies, research and sporting practice! We then discuss Jon's venture to Saudi Arabia, where he helped set up their sporting institute, before returning to London and a role in Football, as a Head of Academy Sport Science. 

Jon answers all the weekly key questions and provides more insight into how we look at research and why we have to the question literature that is out there, all whilst looking at ways of progressing studies forward!

Jon can be found on Twitter @johnnie_mechanic and we are on all our socials @ThrivePES if you have any feedback or questions for Jon and ourselves, do get in touch!

Psychologist and top selling author Professor Damian Hughes answers our key questions in Part 1 of our 2 part special! Damian discusses embracing the journey through education and those early roles in a sporting career, learning from the mistakes he made and how he has reflected on these to improve his practice and mindset going forward. Damian shares experiences of the high performing sport environments he has been involved with and uses some great anecdotes to expand upon his points, making this an educational and enjoyable listen for anyone pursuing a successful career in the wild world of sport!

Make sure you catch Part 2 where Damian discusses more around culture and how physiotherapists, along with the wider MDT can help drive athletes and teams to higher levels, as well as more on how we can improve ourselves towards being successful.  Damian also provides with his key piece of research that resonated with him most in his career. Both parts are not to be missed!

Reading FC First Team Physiotherapist Ray Holland speaks to us about his career working in academies and senior teams at varying levels of the football pyramid and how the experiences can differ, especially between academies and senior sides. 

We discuss how to go about seeking experience and then having the desire to take the next steps to gain and maintain a job in sport. We then reflect on the teams and networks we build around us to thrive in what can be sometimes daunting, competitive, sporting environments. 

As with all of our guests, Ray shares his top tip for getting into a career in sport as well as his key research paper recommendation that has helped define his practice, selecting a paper that focuses on pain and how it can be applied to acute injuries in the sporting setting. 

Bogduk, N., 2009. On the definitions and physiology of back pain, referred pain, and radicular pain. Pain, 147(1), pp.17-19.