JOSPT Insights

The Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy brings you the JOSPT Insights podcast every Monday. On each episode, experienced clinicians and researchers unpack musculoskeletal rehabilitation topics in under 30 minutes. Guests share clinical tips and research discoveries in musculoskeletal rehabilitation with host Dr Clare Ardern, Editor-in-Chief of JOSPT. Sports physical therapists Drs Chelsea Cooman, Dan Chapman and Marquis Sanabrais are frequent co-hosts.

JOSPT Insights is a medicine podcast hosted by JOSPT, with 282 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

JOSPT hosts JOSPT Insights, a medicine show with 282 episodes published.

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  Episode #282

  Ep 282: How to explain a musculoskeletal diagnosis, with Marc Perron

  Sep 28, 202623 minS1

  There's plenty of debate in the musculoskeletal rehabilitation community about how to clearly communicate with patients about a diagnosis. Clinicians are trying to balance being clear about what the likely cause of the symptoms is without inducing unnecessary worry. How much should you—or even can you—accurately describe the pathology and anatomy of the problem? On the flip side, others have strongly argued that pathoanatomic labels do more harm than good. Today, experienced musculoskeletal physiotherapist and researcher (Laval University, Canada), Marc Perron makes the case that clinicians should not hide the pathology and anatomy—it's how you talk with patients about their diagnosis that matters most. ------------------------------ RESOURCES Physical therapists diagnosing musculoskeletal conditions: don't hide what matters - just say it the right way: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2026.14197

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  Episode #281

  Ep 281: Tackling pain-related fear with exercise therapy, with Drs Courtney Mears and Matthew Heindel

  Sep 21, 202625 minS1

  Psychological factors like a person's thoughts, beliefs and emotions can exert a strong influence on rehabilitation outcomes for people with chronic musculoskeletal conditions. When a person has pain, they might feel scared to move or convinced that moving in a certain way will damage their body. Today's discussion focuses on how a person's thoughts about shoulder pain can change over an 8-week exercise-based rehabilitation program, and the implications for how musculoskeletal rehabilitation clinicians approach discussions about fear and moving with the patients you work with. Dr Courtney Mears and Dr Matthew Heindel discuss their recent JOSPT publication (linked below). Dr Mears is a physical therapist at the University of Southern California, and a researcher in the Clinical Biomechanics Orthopedic and Sports Outcomes Research Lab. Her research focuses on understanding the relationship between psychosocial factors, shoulder pain, and functional outcomes. Dr Heindel is a physical therapist, and a postdoctoral associate at Duke University’s School of Medicine, where he studies the neuroimmune mechanisms of chronic musculoskeletal pain. Dr Heindel completed his PhD on the mechanics of pain and muscle dysfunction in rotator cuff tendinopathy in 2025 at the Clinical Biomechanics Orthopedic and Sports Outcomes Research Lab at the University of Southern California. ------------------------------ RESOURCES Changes in pain-related fear: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2026.13563 OSPRO yellow flag assessment tool: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2016.6487

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  Episode #280

  Ep 280: Should I worry about noisy joints? With Dr Danilo De Oliveira Silva

  Aug 24, 202623 minS1

  Does hip crepitus make a difference to the health of the joint? Does crepitus indicate damage, harm or progression of osteoarthritis? How should clinicians explain hip crepitus and its implications to patients? Today's guest addresses those questions and more in a deep dive on hip crepitus. Dr Danilo De Oliveira Silva (La Trobe University) discusses his JOSPT article, Self-Reported Hip Crepitus Is Prevalent in Football Players With Hip/Groin Pain, but Is It Associated With Early Hip Osteoarthritis Structural Features? A Longitudinal Study , with Dan and Marquis. ------------------------------ RESOURCES Self-reported hip crepitus - longitudinal study: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2025.13474 Beliefs and attitudes about hip crepitus: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41056730/

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  Episode #279

  Ep 279: Treat the athlete, not her scan, with Pirette Claes & Dr Pim van Klij

  Aug 17, 202624 minS1

  Hip morphology and hip injuries have been receiving increasing attention, which is a good thing given their prevalence and impact on athletes' health and performance. Today's guests combine the hip and groin field, with the attention that female athletes deserve to their health and performance. Dr Pim van Klij, who works with Dutch football/soccer powerhouse, Ajax, and Pirette Claes, who is starting her career in sports medicine, discuss the PROFE study. We focus on the work they have been leading to quantify the relationship between groin symptoms, and pubic symphysis radiological findings and skeletal maturity. Dr van Klij is sports medicine physician and Assistant Professor at Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine. Pirette Claes is a medical intern at Leiden University Medical Centre, and an early-career researcher. ------------------------------ RESOURCES Prevalence of symphyseal radiographic findings and relationship to groin symptoms (PROFE study): https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2026.13580 JOSPT focused issue on hip and groin research (July 2026): https://www.jospt.org/toc/jospt/56/7

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  Episode #278

  Ep 278: Managing the uncertainty of tendinopathy, with Max Hopes

  Aug 10, 202625 minS1

  Tendinopathy will show up regularly in the clinic for many JOSPT Insights listeners. In a person-centred care model, it's important to understand the person with tendinopathy, where they're coming from and what they're experiencing. Today's guest has been studying patients' experience of different types of lower limb tendinopathies. The results might surprise you, in just how complex and variable people's experiences are. Max Hopes is an osteopath and researcher (University of Technology Sydney) studying lower limb tendinopathy. Today Max shares some of the early results of his PhD work, and we explore what it means for musculoskeletal practice. ------------------------------ RESOURCES Lived experiences of people with tendinopathy: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2026.13666

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