How To Avoid Injury As An Athlete (Science Explained) No Stone Unturned

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This is like watching a professional documentary on tv, very impressive will definitely watch the whole series.

As a young doctor (working towards becoming a sports and exercise medicine physician) this is refreshing. An elite athlete doing good research and not just spouting anecdotes and trying to sell stuff. Love it

This is SO valuable in a time where so many "medical pros" have the silver bullet answer to your pain. Thank you for taking the time to make this content.

Im a PT in the US and I will say that there’s a ton of BS and fluff in the outpatient PT world so buyer beware. Especially for performance enhancement. Schooling does not teach much for performance and in my experience most PTs don’t know shit and will waste your time. It has to be function or limitation focused instead of some random voodoo. I personally think you have to be careful of chasing a “perfect textbook motion.” Beware when PTs over complicate things. “Motor retraining” is a wild goose chase and the body doesn’t often retain the “training.” I love the summary at the end. I think the most helpful thing is to get a sense of how a person is getting hurt and what is aggravating it, and adjusting and addressing things for the person specifically. Back pain can have so many causes and it’s hard for meta analyses to pin point one answer fit all. Continued heavy squat stress versus “throwing your back out” are very different causes and treatment paths.

I’m an EP like Mitchell. Chiropractic works through massage and stretching. Spinal manipulation itself will cause more injury to discs and nerves. Chiropractic was originally based on magic if you look up the history of the profession. Spiritual healing with magnets therapy. And keep your hands off the children. Physio is hit or miss depending on knowledge and experience which is similar to EPs. Be wary of a therapist that uses a lot of jargon or buzz words.

This series is going to blow up. Thanks for putting this together and sharing this knowledge with everyone, Mitch! Loving watching you get better and better at video creation!

stoked about this video, balancing pushing myself and injury avoidance is something im constantly wondering about

As someone that wants to push his body in the sport of powerlifting (despite not being anywhere near the level of an elite athlete), i've definitely found a GOOD physio/chiro has always been a really good investment. Out of the many I have seen, i've always found that a good physio will always assess, establish a plan, sometimes manual therapy/manipulation and provide corrective exercises while explaining the purpose of those exercises. Apart from feeling and moving better in my sport and everyday life, it has always given me a huge amount of knowledge about my body and enabled me to self-diagnose a lot of my smaller niggles and add in the appropriate corrective exercises to improve the pain before it become chronic or an acute injury.

What you said about finding a good physiotherapist matches my experience so well. I lost 4 years of my powerlifting career to constant injuries to my right hamstring because no one would ever tell me how to fix the cause of injury. It was always just immediate pain relief, pseudoscientific therapy that did nothing or sometimes not even that. Took all that time for me to finally find a physiotherapist at my gym who has actually worked with powerlifters before. Did a quick assessment (which no one had even done before, lol), told me what wasn't working properly, did some manipulation the first time, so I could move better immediately and then gave me a list of exercises and progressions to fix the issue myself. That was 6 years ago. Haven't injured my hamstring since.

Absolutely love this kind of content!!!!! Excited about the rest of these videos! Thank you!!!!

Ep1 and hooked already. As a, sporty, 61yr old who wants to enjoy a fit and healthy retirement it is really good to get an elite athlete, with intelligence and good communication skills, doing a critical analysis of the various pain and health management techniques available to one and all. Looking forward to Ep2!! Thanks Mitch

Excited for the rest of the series. I just stared seeing a chiro and physio for back bain so this was very informative.

Great video, very useful as well. Looking forward to the next episodes. Thank you very much

As a physio myself I hate that we are mostly depicted as better masseurs... You want to move you have to move. Our Job is to examine and find the problem and give corrective movements and/or strengthening exercises.

Been looking forward to this! Cant wait to see the rest of the series

Thanks Mitch, I quite enjoyed this episode and I love the concept. Looking forward to nthe next one!

Great video mitch, can't wait for the next episode

Great video. Will watch the whole series for sure. Congratulations.

Great episode. Looking forward to the series.