Clinical Edge - Physio Edge 078 High performance athlete management with David Joyce

How can you incorporate high performance elements into your sports injury rehab, to help your injured players and athletes become strong, fit, powerful and fast? How can you rehab a player to perform at a high level when they return to sport following injury?

In Physio Edge podcast episode 78, David Joyce shares how you can improve the performance aspects of your rehabilitation. You will discover some of the key elements when managing high performance athletes and sporting teams. If you work with injured athletes at an elite, recreational or junior level, or would like to work with a sports team, you will love this podcast.

In this podcast, David Joyce and David Pope discuss:

How to help athletes move from being a junior player to performing at an elite level
How to help players build tolerance and resilience to cope with high level sport
How to create "elite level people", not just "elite level players"
What makes a player likely to succeed?
Schedules and weekly programs you can use to prepare junior players
What load should a junior player perform during preseason relative to a senior player?
When players need to be exposed to higher loads
How to schedule training and running to prevent bony and soft tissue injuries
How many running sessions per week should players perform?
"Earning the right" to run at full speed
How to structure strength sessions do players perform
Incorporating plyometrics
What load measures are actually important
Important screening questions to ask your players
How to return injured players to high level sport
How many weeks of full training do ACL injured players require before return to play
Key tests to perform for your players
Tips when objectively testing athletes

Physio Edge 078 High performance athlete management with David Joyce

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