Great paper by Bettariga et al on periodisation & how we might use this concept to best design exercise strategies alongside cancer treatments 👌🏼
Strength & Conditioning principles are helpful for all types of populations, not just athletes
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Thanks for your comment 😊 Yep, can be a little difficult to get your head around, especially if you don’t have visuals of the force-time curve
RFD vs Strength
I thought it was time to revisit this topic after yesterday’s publication.
👉🏼What these performance qualities are
👉🏼How they differ
👉🏼How to think about focussing rehab/training
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Please can we do better in peer-reviewed publications 🙏🏻
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The paper is concerned with the review of RFD / RTD (rate of force development / rate of torque development), which describes the gradient of the force-time curve i.e. how quickly muscle force can be produced, NOT the max for produces, which is muscle strength.
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This is disappointing 🤨
RFD / RTD is not muscle strength. They are separate qualities of muscle performance
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A few places remaining on this Florida 🇺🇸 course. Can’t wait 😀
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Had an absolute blast of a day with these awesome physios filming hip strength testing using #dynamometry, exploring what’s possible, repeatable & can be standardised in clinic just using a plinth.
Some tension & compression dynamometer options.
All videos feature in my course
anyone have a recommendation for a back physio in west london?
@claireminshull.bsky.social
@running-physio.bsky.social
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Efficacy vs. effectiveness … do you know the difference?
Great BJSM Pod with Prof Daniel Lieberman & Chris Macdonald discussing the topic (& their recent review) with ref to exercise & Type II diabetes
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See you there!
Delighted to contribute to this webinar series on dynamometry
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Another set of dynamometers to test 👌🏼
Book sampling frequency: 200 Hz
(200 samples per second)
Sarcopenia DOES NOT EQUAL low muscle mass👌🏼
Nice editorial here by Alfonso Cruz‑Jentoft et al
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
Student and physiotherapists’ perceived abilities to prescribe effective physical activity and exercise interventions: A cross-sectional survey pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/315581/1-s2....
In-Person teaching calendar for 2025 is now full
Looking forward to another year of travel, meeting brilliant practitioners, and hopefully a bit more balance 😂
Stay strong 💪🏻
Bone on bone … 😱
Not any more for some surgeons following an excellent Keynote by Serena Simmons @serenapsychologist.bsky.social at the Munich ICRS CartilageRepair conference
YES 👊🏻
I’m often asked which dynamometer to buy & about testing in rehab.
1st response -what data do you want to obtain?
2nd- why do you want it?
Do you want to use data in decision making, or as a motivational aid?
Answer this THEN we can consider which tool 👍🏻
A muscle’s contractile history influences its subsequent performance.
Doesn’t always have to be negative. We can use potentiating mechanisms in clinical practice to overcome inhibition, or augment RFD & Power-based rehab👍🏻
Fab first day teaching S&C to a brilliant group of physios today
at Plymouth hospital
Day 1 - strength 💪🏻
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These types of statements, in published papers really really annoy me 😡
Reader led to believe that break tests are associated with ⬆️ risks of injuries & these papers evidence it
They don’t !
‘Throw away’ statements like this can have a profound impact. Authors & reviewers please do better
Fantastic, this 👍🏻
I teamed up with foot & ankle specialist @lizbayleyphysio.bsky.social to created 4 exercise programmes for Plantar Heel Pain. 3 are based on Osborne et al. (2023) where 18 experts devised exercises for PHP. The ‘LiTHE’ programme is our own creation which fits more closely with S&C principles…
ANSWER:
1000 Hz 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
One of the fastest HHD sampling frequencies. Good enough to measure RFD (rate of force development)
ANSWER: 40Hz
Not fast enough for measurement of RFD (rate of force development)
Here another
Physio Kinvent Pull dynamometer. What’s the sampling frequency?
1️⃣ 40 Hz
2️⃣ 125 Hz
3️⃣ 1000 Hz
Do you have a copy of your paper that you could share with me please Tomer?
Thanks ☺️
