Member Q&A and mentoring session: Knee, hip & groin pain and injuries

Join us for an engaging member mentoring session with Senior Physio Educator Clare Walsh (Specialist Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist, FACP) and and David Pope (APA Titled Musculoskeletal & Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist).

In this informative Q&A, Clare and David answer Clinical Edge member questions on:

• Should ice should be used in acute injuries? What the latest research reveals about using ice and whether your patients should use it.
• Medial sided knee pain, including Pes anserine pain - how to assess and diagnose it
• Hip and groin pain - how to assess, treat and prevent it
• Should acute MCL and LCL injuries be braced?
• How are PCL injuries treated?
• How to treat adolescent injuries with a focus on calcaneal apophysitis (Sever’s disease)
• Clare and David’s favourite Olympic sports to watch.

Timeline

Medial sided knee pain and Pes Anserine

01:01 Pes anserine(PA) anatomy & pain location
03:07 PA pain location
03:46 PA pain presentation & history
04:58 PA Common aggravating factors & settling symptoms
07:19 Local symptom relief
08:00 PA symptom relief in OA patients
08:25 PA function and anatomy
09:06 PA objective assessment & diagnosis
11:12 Differentiating PA from patellofemoral pain (PFP)
13:05 How to differentiate PA from a degenerative medial meniscus
14:03 Link between PA and weak or overloaded quads
15:46 PA pain, running gait assessment and gluteal strength/weakness
17:37 Running gait cues for patients with PA pain
18:49 How to target rehab with PA
19:40 How to educate patients on PA
20:45 Recovery timeframes and patient expectations
21:43 Load management for runners with PA

Groin pain diagnosis, treatment & prevention

23:42 How to treat and prevent groin pain in footballers. GLaD for groin pain?
28:55 Adductor exercise progressions

Bracing for MCL and LCL injuries?

29:41 Bracing for MCL and LCL injuries
33:40 Why use a ROM brace?
35:29 LCL injuries
37:45 LCL Differential diagnosis
38:37 Posterolateral corner injuries - assessment and diagnosis
40:37 Summary - Bracing for acute knee injuries
41:43 Criteria for removing the brace after injury

PCL injuries

42:36 PCL injuries
44:34 Surgery for PCL injuries?
45:17 RTP following PCL injury

Adolescent injuries, with a focus on Calcaneal apophysitis (Sever’s disease)

46:09 Treatment of calcaneal apophysitis (Sever's disease)
50:47 Sever's - other advice to parents & patients

Should ice or NSAIDs be used for acute injuries? What does the latest evidence reveal?

53:02 Ice for acute injuries?
55:37 Ice for pain or recovery after injury?
56:17 NSAID's after injury?
57:00 Olympic sports we're looking forward to watching