Dr Matt Tuttle - Managing common NBA Injuries

lateral ankle sprains lumber spine injuries nba patella injuries Apr 28, 2024

Episode 24: Andy McDonald chats to Dr Matt Tuttle a Physical Therapist working at NBA team the Denver Nuggets as Lead Sport Scientist / Physical Therapist. We spoke to Matt in episode 11 about pain science and the realities of managing pain within an elite athletic population.

In this second episode with Matt we discuss

The relationship between single vs multipart athletes in the NBA and 3 key injuries in professional basketball.

Lateral ankle sprains

Managing lateral ankle sprains
What do they use / do at the Denver Nuggets

Patella Region Injuries

How much Matt considers n=1 biomechanics
How do you understand the internal overloads from biomechanics

Lumber Spine Injuries

NSLBP
Strength & Conditioning / Testing the lumber-spine
Benchmarking lumber spine performance standards

Were you can find Matt

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