What is Optimal Loading? How do we achieve it? Top Sports physio Dr Phil Glasgow reveals all - a podcast by BMJ Group

A respected global voice within Sports Physiotherapy, Phil Glasgow returns to the BJSM podcast to share his thoughts and expertise on loading for injury prevention and treatment. Phil has worked at numerous major international sporting events and was the Chief Physiotherapy Officer for Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympics. As Former Head of Sports Medicine at Sports Institute, Northern Ireland, he has amassed extensive experience in high performance sport working with elite athletes from a wide range of sports learning their best loading patterns amongst the way.

BJSM’s Liam West poses the questions that see Phil take you through the fundamental principles of loading, when to start loading after injury, different loading patterns based on tissue type and loading pattern variations during rehabilitation.Want to hear more on loading? Check out these two conferences below that Phil and other great speakers will be discussing loading patterns more in depth;

- Second World Congress of Sports Physical Therapy in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 6th-7th October 2017 (http://www.opload2017.com)- New Zealand Sports Physiotherapy Conference in Auckland, 14th-15th October 2017 (http://bit.ly/2vudQmN).

Some further reading:PRICE needs updating, should we call the POLICE? - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/46/4/220

Optimal loading: key variables and mechanisms - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/5/278Optimising load to optimise outcomes - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/13/985

A view from New Zealand and an invitation to Sports Physiotherapy New Zealand’s Symposium (14–15 October 2017) - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/5/413Training – injury prevention paradox. Should athletes be training smarter AND harder bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2016…sports-2015-095788

Related Podcasts:Dream Team of training load management: How training influences injury and performance - http://bit.ly/29gPxxg

Putting load management evidence into practice: Sometimes you can’t! Dr Darren Burgess - http://bit.ly/2el00rR

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