ClinicalAthlete Podcast

On this episode we have the whole Executive Clinical Athlete Provider Mentor Team — Quinn Henoch, Zak Gabor, Steph Allen, and Steph Mundt. We started as the 4 mentors in the Clinical Athlete Provider Certification Program exactly two years ago in March of 2024. Our mentor team has now grown to 8 and counting, but there’s been a ton of growth in many other aspects over the last 2 years. So, we thought it’d be a great opportunity to get the 4 of us on the show for the first time together, and reflect on the last two years. There’s a lot of great nuggets to take away from this about working with a team and continuing your professional development within leadership positions. We hope you enjoy! Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @stephallen.dpt @stephmundt.dpt @clinicalathlete @zakgabor.dpt @quinn.henochdpt

On this episode Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor talk about a really important topic — the best Ninendo 64 games of all time. We actually do talk about that, but also, we talk about timelines in rehab and communication with our athletes around forecasting and prediction of how rehab should go, how long it will take — all of the things that give us anxiety but that we address on a regular basis in our practice. What makes up our timeline predictions? And what happens if the original timelines that we communicated don’t match up with how the athlete’s rehab is actually going? We dig into all of that and more. We hope you enjoy! Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this episode we welcome an awesome guest — The Plyo guy himself and creator of Plusplyos Matt McInnes Watson. Matt is an absolute go-to resource for anything and everything regarding plyometrics, and has had a big influence on us and how we view these things within the Clinical Athlete community. What the heck does “plyometric” even mean? How can we break down the barriers to entry for coaching, programming, and performing these movements? We cover it all with Matt, this was an absolute banger. We hope you enjoy! Connect with Matt: @mcinneswatson @plusplyos https://www.plusplyos.com/ Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this episode we welcome an awesome guest — Ben Cormack. Ben has been a valuable resource to the Clinical Athlete community for years with his practical educational content around pain and exercise. We think both providers, athletes, and clients alike will find this one if chalk full of practical recommendations for managing the pain experience while ultimately achieving your physical activity goals. We hope you enjoy! Connect with Ben: @corkinetic https://www.cor-kinetic.co.uk Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

It’s a Clinical Athlete Diary vibe. When’s the last time you re-read a book or retook a course, instead of buying a new one? Hmm… Also, you ever struggle with tracking your athlete’s symptoms in rehab? Or find it to be a slippery slope to have a goal be for them to have no more pain flare ups? Me too. Let’s talk about it all. Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

Ever found yourself getting stuck in paralysis by analysis with your exercise prescription? Ugh.. amateur.. Just kidding! We’ve all felt it. You’re in luck — on this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor dig into why that may happen and some practical approaches to getting past it and providing some baller programs to our athletes. Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor welcome a special guest onto the show – Matt Kuzdub. Matt is a tennis coach and a tennis strength & conditioning coach – and I’ll even frame that differently, that’s he’s just an awesome sport and S&C coach and the sport and athletes that he works with happen to be tennis players. He’s also Zak’s tennis and S&C coach and Matt is currently finishing up going through the Clinical Athlete Provider certification — which has been awesome for all of us because he’s already such a wealth of knowledge. So, we’re really excited to share this conversion with you — we discussed what shaped Matt’s current training philosophy, how he balances needing to help his athletes develop multiple qualities simultaneously in a sport without much of an off season, some myth busting and misconceptions in training tennis athletes, and much more. It was an awesome conversation. We hope you enjoy Connect with Matt: @mattspoint_tennis www.mattspoint.com [email protected] Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor attempt to bust down the unnecessary mystique of exercise prescription. Have you ever felt like a topic is just out of reach or that you just don’t feel comfortable discussing or implementing with your athletes? Whether it be energy system development, plyometrics, change of direction – well, improving your confidence with any topic doesn’t have to be so daunting and intimidating – and hopefully after this episode you have some actionable takeaway to be able to start tackling your exrx bugaboos in a productive and fun way. We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community Follow us on IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, we welcome a very special guest Asaf Klaf Weisman. Asaf is a clinician and a researcher, who for the better part of the last decade has really challenged some of the conventional wisdom around contemporary pain science, pain neuroscience education, and the biopsychosocial model as a whole. For this convo, we use the widely accepted aphorism of “Nociception is neither necessary nor sufficient for pain” as an example to anchor to what might be, at best, a claim formed on shaky evidence and at worst, just plain wrong, misleading, and keeping the field from moving forward. Zak leads this interview, and we unpack many layers. It’s a dense show, so make sure you eat something, buckle in and prepare for some mind melt in the best way. The Brain Gainz come off the back end of that. We hope you enjoy! Connect with Asaf: Twitter & IG: @asafklaf FB: Asaf Klaf Weisman Google Scholar ResearchGate Painlosophy Blog *All of the papers that we referenced can be found above in Asaf’s Google Scholar and Researchgate links! Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor welcome two special guests onto the show – Josh D’Angelo and Rich Ortiz of MovementX Josh is a co-founder of MovementX, which is a company that is providing Physical Therapists with unique employment opportunities that help them both scratch the entrepreneurial itch, but also provide stability within an established and trusted brand. It was really cool to hear Josh tell the founding story and go into what makes MovementX such a unique company to work for, and in turn, to bringing great care to their clientele. And Rich Ortiz is one of those bright shining star Physical Therapists who’s crushing it within the MovementX umbrella, so it was cool to get that perspective as well – and Rich also recently completed the clinical Athlete provider certification, so he’s a great example of someone who is really trying to maximize their professional development gainz. We go into a ton more – what can rehab professionals do to connect with their communities and educate them on what value they bring to the table, what can new grads do, or anybody looking for growth really, to find those new opportunities, and a ton more. It really was a great conversation. We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community Follow the Movement X crew: https://movement-x.com/ @movementxinc [email protected] [email protected] Follow Clinical Athlete on IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor welcome two special guests onto the show – Chris Juneau and Jason Tuori. Chris and Jason are two all-star physical therapists who we consider good friends and who we’ve had the privilege to work with in varying capacities over the years. They are co-hosts of the PT Inquest podcast and teach a continuing education course called Dungeons and Dynamometers – which is all about teaching principles and methods of objective testing for clinical care and performance. And that’s the topic of discussion for this show – we cover some big picture questions like, why do we test at all? Why does it matter? When does it not matter? How do we utilize the data that we gather? And then we get into the weeds a little bit too, on the differentiation of kinematics and kinetics, testing set up, dynamometer use, and a ton more. And of course, we ask the big question – is manual muscle testing a valid and reliable means of testing & monitoring force production with data that we can trust to make decisions with? (spoiler: probably not) All of this AND more. We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community Connect with Chris & Jason: @dungeonsanddynamometers @cmj027 @jasontuori.dpt In-Person D&D Courses Online D&D Course Connect with Clinical Athlete: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor welcome a special guest onto the show – Ramsey Nijem who is the Director of Performance for the men’s basketball team at the University of Kansas. And before that, Ramsey worked for years in the NBA as a head strength & conditioning coach, so needless to say, he knows a thing or two about working with basketball players and teams at the highest levels. We go into so much on this show – what it’s like working within a high performance staff and how all the different hats of S&C, rehab, sport coaches all work together, differences in how he planned and programmed training in the NBA vs. college; how his training programs are structured from off season to in season, how he manages training when injuries or fatigue are present within the team or individual athletes to still help them get some kind of training effect in season, All of this AND more We hope you enjoy! Connect with Ramsey Nijem: @dr.ramsey.nijem https://www.appliedperformance.co/ Connect with Clinical Athlete: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor riff on a few topics that all have to do with how we as providers, and how athletes view injury, rehab, and training as a whole. Have you ever had someone say to you – aren’t you a PT, shouldn’t you be able to fix yourself? Which is funny because Zak talks about how he literally just strained his hamstring 3 days ago, and goes into how he’s managing it for an upcoming tennis tournament. Or, do you ever get the sense that athletes and clients expect rehab to work in the same way that a mechanic fixes a car or an electrician fixes a light switch? A lot of times it just ain’t that straightforward. Or take something like Plyometrics – we often associate that word with end stage rehab or for high level athletes, but is that the best way to think about it? All of this AND more We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community Follow us on IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor discuss some major upgrades to our Clinical Athlete Provider curriculum – now, the thing is, these upgrades are inspired by feedback and some continued friction points that providers are still experiencing with ExRx in general. So, there are PLENTY of actionable takeaways from this episode that anyone listening can apply to their athletes right away. We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community Follow us on IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, Zak and Quinn discuss the concept of “Mobility” and share how their thoughts and feelings about this topic have evolved over the last decade, and how that has influenced their exercise prescription. It’s always a hot topic, so hopefully we don’t make too many people mad (JK we love ruffling feathers.) We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community Follow us on IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, we answer some of your questions about the challenges you’re facing with exercise prescription! We go over: “Overstretching” injuries Are dips dangerous? Hypertrophy rep ranges Tendinopathy and positional considerations And more! We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community Follow us on IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt

On this show, we welcome back the one and only Steph Allen from ACL Resolve to talk about . . you guessed it – ACL rehab! We go over a TON of things revolving around early to mid stage rehab – what should those first few weeks look like? Are braces good, bad, ugly? When do we start testing? How do different graft types affect progression and timeline? We discuss all of that and more. We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community Follow us on IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @stephallen.dpt