Football Medicine®

For our 10th episode, we spoke with Portuguese nutritionist Gabriel Martins, author of the fantastic Fuel the Pedal Podcast and who’s currently working in Spain with cyclists.The following themes were approached:- Potential rational behind the use of fad-diets;- General needs in terms of macro and micronutrients for the injured athlete;- Possible role for supplementation like collagen, vitamin C, creatine, among others, especially for muscle and tendon healing.

How to implement sleep enhancing strategies in football? – a talk with Dr Craig DuncanIn this episode, we talked with world renewed sport scientist Dr Craig Duncan about the importance of sleep in high performance football. We covered the following subjects:- Effects of sleep deprivation on performance and healing times on our injured players;- Sleep quality and quantity for enhancing regeneration and recovery;- Strategies to reduce the ever increasing travelling and environmental demands in today’s football.

In the second part of this conversation, Strenght and Conditioning expert Mike Boyle gives us his opinion about:- Expected recovery time for an athlete after a strength session;- Relations between a S&C coach that works outside the club environment with his athletes… and their respective clubs;- Load management precautions on this matter.

In this first of two parts, we talk with Strenght and Conditioning expert Mike Boyle about some football-related subjects.How we can improve strength testing in soccer, recommendations regarding a football player’s strength and conditioning program and the importance of speed and power as much needed physical qualities for this athletes are the main themes approached in this talk.

In this sixth episode we talk with football manager Carlos Carvalhal from Portugal, who recently trained Sheffield Wednesday and Swansea in the UK. In this interview we discuss some aspects regarding this type of relation, like: main expectations from the manager about the work of a medical department; main flaws, if any, found in this department and how to correct them; and the up-growing role of the medical staff in training load monitoring and management.

For this 5th episode we talked with Prof. Dr. Niek van Dijk, a world-renowned surgeon and specialist in surgery of the ankle and knee, sport traumatology and arthroscopic surgery.In this interview we discuss some aspects regarding 5thmetatarsal injuries like: most common 5th metatarsal injury in football players; treatment options, both surgical and conservative; recommended surgical procedure for a football player; estimated time to return to play.

Listen in this forth chapter to one of the greatest experts in Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) exercise, Jeremy Loenneke, professor at the University of Mississippi with his PhD in Exercise Physiology. Topics like the mechanisms behind this type of methodology, the best way to apply it in an athletes' population and how it can boost the rehabilitation process or an injury prevention program in a football player are approached.

For the third episode of the Football Medicine® Podcast we invited Steve Barrett, head chief of the Sports Science Department at Hull City FC, to talk about load management strategies, with special focus on RPE: its purpose, differences between sRPE and dRPE and their correlation with other external load measurements like GPS.

In the second episode of the Football Medicine® Podcast we talk with Prof. Dr. João Espregueira Mendes about the behaviour of cartilage injuries, the best surgery techniques used in a football player and the estimated time to return to play as well as indications concerning the load of this particular tissue post-surgery.

Welcome to the very first episode of the Football Medicine® Podcast! In this debut, we talk with Mike Davison, managing director of the Isokinetic Medical Group in London, about the Isokinetic Conference that will take place in Barcelona next June: it's history, overview and what to expect from this event.