Season 1
Episodes
# 58: Most rotator cuff tears don't hurt
The FIMAGE study scanned both shoulders of 602 adults from the general population using high-resolution 3-Tesla MRI. Only 7 had a structurally normal rotator cuff. In this episode, I walk through what the study found,...
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#57: Stop Looking for a Winner: The Case for Treatment Pluralism
In this episode, I walk through my recent JOSPT paper arguing that no single treatment modality has proven itself superior for musculoskeletal pain and that the profession should stop pretending otherwise.
Drawing on...
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#56: I Posted a Meta-Analysis and 50 Doctors Told Me I Was Wrong
I posted a meta-analysis showing PRP doesn't beat saline for tennis elbow. The regenerative medicine community came for me, hard. This episode walks through the incident, what the evidence states, why the comparator...
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#55: Will AI Replace Physiotherapists?
The argument that AI replaces "the science" while clinicians should "lean into the art" has become common across healthcare. In this episode, I explain why I think both sides of that framing get it wrong, and why the...
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#54: Physiotherapists are Knowledge Workers
In this episode of The Shoulder Physio Podcast, we discuss why musculoskeletal clinicians are, at their core, knowledge workers. Not in the corporate buzzword sense, but in the truest sense: professionals whose value...
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#53: Shin Splints: The Most Misunderstood Running Injury with Laura Anderson PhD(c)
Physiotherapist and PhD researcher Laura Anderson just published a paper arguing that "medial tibial stress syndrome" is a 'garbage' name that's been freaking runners out and leading to terrible treatment for...
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#52 It’s Not All About Strength: What the Evidence Shows and What the Reaction Reveals
In this episode, I discuss our recently published BJSM editorial “It’s Not All About Strength” ; what the paper argues, why we wrote it, and what the evidence says about mechanisms of exercise-related pain relief in...
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#51: Resistance Training Across the Lifespan: What Really Matters with Dr. Jackson Fyfe
In this episode, Jared Powell is joined by Dr. Jackson Fyfe, exercise scientist and Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, to explore the science and practicality of resistance training across the lifespan.
They unpack...
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#50 Not for everyone: The launch of The Complete Clinician with Dr Jared Powell, PhD
In this episode, Jared announces the launch of The Complete Clinician, a new mentorship and education community for MSK professionals who want more than recycled CPD. He explains why this platform exists, what’s...
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#49: Cognitive Functional Therapy with Prof. Peter O'Sullivan
In this candid and wide-ranging conversation, Dr Jared Powell is joined once again by Professor Peter O’Sullivan, one of the most influential voices in musculoskeletal care.Â
Pete unpacks the rationale and findings of...
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#48 Rotator Cuff Surgery: What Makes it Worthwhile?
In this solo episode of The Shoulder Physio Podcast, Dr Jared Powell explores a deceptively simple question: How much benefit does rotator cuff surgery need to provide to be considered worthwhile?Â
Jared explores a...
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#47: Active Inference, Pain, and Movement with Dr Mervyn Travers
In this episode of The Shoulder Physio Podcast, Dr Jared Powell sits down with Dr Mervyn Travers, physiotherapist, S&C coach, and researcher, to explore one of the most compelling frameworks in contemporary pain...
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