The Physical Performance Show: Adam Meakins – The Sports Physio, The Unstable Shoulder

In episode 182 of The Physical Performance Show Brad Beer shares a conversation with Adam Meakins – The Sports Physio, The Unstable Shoulder in this expert edition.

Adam Meakins aka The Sports Physio is a Physiotherapist, a strength and conditioning specialist and an extended scope practitioner in both the National Health Service and private practice in Hertfordshire, England. Throughout his career Adam has worked in many roles including professional sport and has been fortunate to work with and learn from some of the world’s leading shoulder authorities and experts. Adam has helped a wide and diverse range of people from professional athletes to the general public and understands the importance of a robust progressive rehabilitation being integral to the recovery of injury and optimisation of the body throughout life. Adam strongly believes in a no-nonsense, simple, practical and evidence-based approach to therapy and the physiotherapy profession. Adam has been actively involved in a number of clinical research projects, he has published papers in peer-reviewed journals and has also written a chapter for the latest edition of the Bestselling Sports medicine book Brukner and Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine.

During this expert edition we explore the unstable or loose shoulder with Adam Meakins. We examine the categories of an unstable or loose shoulder, the worn, the born and the torn loose shoulder, dislocations on the football field or some of those ugly party tricks that your friends do when they can turn themselves into seemingly impossible positions. This is an episode that explores great principles on how to maintain a healthy shoulder across your lifespan, common mistakes people make in training shoulders and so much more.

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Listen in as we delve into the following:

• Typical Day for Adam Meakins
• Background in Strength and Conditioning
• What is a wobbly shoulder and why does it matter
• Systematic Shoulder
• Difference between subluxed shoulder and dislocated shoulder
• Traumatic and non traumatic shoulder injuries classification
• Examples of a Torn Type Injury
• Differences of Posterior and Anterior Dislocation
• Point of call for dislocated shoulder
• Born Loose Version and Classifications
• Bony defect effects of Loose Shoulder
• Key Principles in Managing a Loose Shoulder
• Research on when it’s best to use a sling for a shoulder fracture
• Prescriptive exercises for Loose Shoulder
• Groups with high risk of repeat dislocations
• What Orthopaedics do for Shoulder Injury
• Role of Taping in Loose shoulder
• Mistakes in Managing unstable shoulder
• Screening tools used for a shoulder injury

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Reference

An excellent complement to today’s Expert Edition is Episode 167 featuring Jared Powell.

Quotes:

“You can’t go wrong getting strong.” – Best Advice
“100 body weight squats per day.” – Physical Challenge

“Classification of Loose shoulder injuries by Adam Meakins”
1. Torn Loose – most common, Traumatic Injury
2. Worn Loose – no history of trauma in the background
3. Born Loose

Groups with high risk of repeat dislocators
1. Younger age group
2. With bony bankart lesions
3. Individuals with high levels of pain after dislocation
4. Individuals with high fear of re-injury

To follow Adam Meakins

Instagram: @adammeakins
Twitter:  @AdamMeakins
Facebook:  @TheSportPhysio
Website: The Sports Physio

Timeline

0:00 Start
01:41 Introduction to Adam Meakins
05:26 Typical Day for Adam Meakins
07:10 Background in Strength and Conditioning
09:36 What is a wobbly shoulder and why does it matter
12:05 Systematic Shoulder
15:25 Difference between subluxed shoulder and dislocated shoulder
17:37 Traumatic and non traumatic shoulder injuries classification
21:33 Examples of Torn Type Injury
23:40 Differences of Posterior and Anterior Dislocation
27:44 Point of call for dislocated shoulder
30:09 About Worn Loose Shoulder
35:18 Born Loose Version and Classifications
37:51 Bony defect effects of Loose Shoulder
41:19 Key Principles in Managing a Loose Shoulder
44:10 Research on when it’s best to use sling in shoulder fracture
49:50 Prescriptive exercises for Loose Shoulder
53:50 Groups with a high risk of repeat dislocations
55:25 What Orthopaedics do for Shoulder Injury
1:01:20 Role of Taping in Loose shoulder
1:03:25 Mistakes in Managing an unstable shoulder
1:09:23 Best Advice
1:11:35 Screening tools used in shoulder injury
1:13:54 Finish

For questions and comments about this Episode

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