The Shoulder Physio Podcast

#24 Injury prevention (or is it reduction?) with Professor Franco Impellizzeri

The Shoulder Physio Podcast

Show Notes

Can we prevent injuries from happening? All of them? If we can't prevent ALL injuries should we move away from using the term prevention? Or is all this boring and irrelevant linguistic games that don't move the needle for clinical practice? I for one am fascinated by this discussion and I reckon you will enjoy it too. Franco, as always, has the ability to cut through fluffy opinions and statements with hardcore and unabashed science and I love it!

Key papers:

Prevention versus Risk Reduction or Mitigation

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