Tendon Issues in Young Athletes - Professor Jill Cook
Release Date: 09/22/2019
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After completing her PhD in 2000, she has investigated tendon pathology, treatment options and risk factors for tendon injury. Jill currently supplements her research by conducting a specialist tendon practice and by lecturing and presenting workshops both in Australia and overseas. We are very pleased to present one of the world's foremost experts in tendon injury.
In this episode we cover;
- What is a tendinopathy? How is this different to tendinitis?
- Do tendons need imaging, like MRI or ultrasound?
- The value of a great practitioner in managing tendon injuries
- How do the symptoms of tendinopathy develop?
- Are tendon injuries are big issues in young athletes?
- Are there particular times in a young athletes development when they are more at risk of tendon injuries?
- What are "safe" loads to avoid tendon injuries
- Monitoring loads and loading to help identify tendon injuries
- What are the implications for young athletes once they have a tendon injury?
- Do all tendon injuries get treated the same way?
- The importance of good strength and capacity to protect young athletes from tendon injury
- Young athletes tendons have a high healing potential
- What is the healing capacity of tendons once they are an issue?
- Should tendons be injected?
- How does managing a tendinopathy differ in season vs off season?
- What keeps Jill Cook awake at night - what's next in the research and what we are trying to figure out
- The young athlete should be at the centre of managing tendon injuries