This episode with Dr. Brooke Patterson is a snippet taken from our Practicals live Q&A sessions. Held monthly, these sessions give Practicals members the chance to ask their pressing questions and get direct answers from our expert presenters. In this episode Brooke discusses:

• Return to play outcome measures
• Concussion prevention research
• Brooke’s return to contact protocol (AFL)
• Prep-to-Play program

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Dr. Brooke Patterson is an Australian Research Council Early Career Industry Research Fellow and physiotherapist who completed her PhD at La Trobe University. A former AFLW player with the Melbourne Football Club and later an Assistant Coach, Brooke went on to lead the development of Prep-to-Play, an injury prevention program for community women’s football. She now works closely with community coaches to implement effective knee and concussion injury prevention strategies.

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In this episode, we discuss the treatment of youth injuries. We explore:

• How children are different to adults for assessment and treatment
• Percentages when treating youth rather than using “age”
• Gender differences in treating youth athletes
• Managing youth overload and deload
• Importance of parental education and involvement
• Importance of nutrition for youth athletes
• Myth busting beliefs about children

Want to learn more about treating youth athletes? Angela Jackson recently did a brilliant Masterclass with us called “Assessment and rehabilitation of low back pain in youth athletes” where she goes into further depth on this topic.

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Angela Jackson is a highly experienced Youth Athlete Consultant physiotherapist dedicated to improving care for young athletes. She has worked across national teams, Premier League football, county cricket and school sport, helping thousands of children return safely to play after injury. Angela founded Physiofit in 1992, growing it into a centre of excellence before selling it in 2021 to focus on education and advocacy through her platform Kids Back 2 Sport. A passionate global educator, she delivers international workshops, created the Kids Back 2 Sport return-to-play course, has consulted with the Cheshire Cricket Board for nearly two decades, and is a contributing author to Cricket Sports Medicine.

Daniel is a highly experienced physiotherapist with more than 15 years in the NHS, private practice and elite sport. For the past eight years he has worked with England Athletics across U13–U20 national and international squads, specialising in the assessment, treatment and long-term management of young athletes while collaborating closely with parents and coaches. He is also an active educator, lecturing for the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sport & Exercise Medicine and the University of the West of England on topics including overtraining and adolescent injury.

Link to download free ossification timings and growth and maturation handout discussed in this episode - https://kidsback2sport.com/resources/

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In this episode with Dr Bradley Neal, we explore an interesting case study on a real patient of his - a runner who was experiencing patellofemoral pain. We cover:

• The role of gait analysis and key aspects to look out for
• Treatment of patellofemoral pain using gait retraining
• Forefoot striking vs rearfoot striking
• Step rate vs stride length retraining

This episode is closely tied to Brad’s case study he did with us. With case studies, you can see how top clinicians manage real-world cases and apply their strategies to get better results with your patients.

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Dr Bradley Neal is a Lecturer in Physiotherapy at the University of Essex, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Sports & Exercise Medicine at QMUL, and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. With a PhD on lower limb biomechanics and patellofemoral pain, he spent 10 years as a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and Head of Research at Pure Sports Medicine, London. His research focuses on patellofemoral pain, knee pathology, running-related injury, and musculoskeletal biomechanics.

Reference to paper discussed in this episode here - Neal BS, Lack SD, Bartholomew C, et al; Best practice guide for patellofemoral pain based on synthesis of a systematic review, the patient voice and expert clinical reasoning. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2024;58:1486-1495.

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