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Rod Whiteley
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Physiotherapist at Aspetar Sports Medicine Hospital.
I used to be a terrible baseball player, but my arm hurts now
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They Might Be Giants - Jackie The Clipper (Official Video)
YouTube video by ParticleMen
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November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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My point 1 could "just" have been about cloning 101 patients to get statistical significance. But the WBC stuff makes me think the entire dataset is fake.
November 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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You may have seen reports about a paper claiming that "Stem cell therapy prevents heart attacks": bmj.altmetric.com/details/1830...

If so, you might want to grab some popcorn: pubpeer.com/publications...
Report for: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (PREVENT-TAHA8)
In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
bmj.altmetric.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Team physicians from Africa: great opportunity here from the IOC - no costs - registration, travel, meals, & accommodation for 2 docs/country to this year's Advanced Teams Physicians' courses in Senegal.
Please share far and wide (your national Olympic Committee has the details)
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Trying to pool data from diagnostic studies means knowing the raw data, but that's not always given.
This app lets you enter what is given, and it titerates through all possibilities to give you most likely candidates:
whiteleyrod-confusionmatrixcalculator-app-rubass.streamlit.app
Find the bugs!
August 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I honestly thought that the analgaesia from BFR was placebo, so we did a sham-controlled crossover RCT, and seems there's something there: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Probably not due to sensitisation-local or global
When you need to do strength training but can't might be an option
August 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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THIS
An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
August 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Scientific journals adding value again, and making reviewers' lives easy - here we have 2 sets of line numbers, one of which is conveniently superimposed over the reference numbers, presumably to make it easier for me to figure these our while doing my review
August 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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🧪 New paper alert! We keep trying to understand muscle-tendon crosstalk. Here we determined whether exosomes could explain why serum after resistance exercise makes bigger stronger tendons. Contrary to our hypothesis, it is not exosomes. The search goes on.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Exosome enriched serum enhances engineered ligament mechanics and collagen content with no additional benefit of resistance exercise
Following resistance exercise, systemic changes foster improved functionality of tendons and ligaments. Post-exercise, muscle tissue releases exosomes…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Some experiments advance science. Others advance the reviewer’s sense of power. Guess which costs more. #FridayThoughts
The Sopranos Tony Soprano GIF
ALT: The Sopranos Tony Soprano GIF
media.tenor.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Spotted this guy eating his lunch while walking through downtown Kuala Lumpur today
July 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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ooh look at me it took me ten years to invent my own job and i only have headshots that make me look like a kindly potato

also i really enjoyed this interview

www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Meet science’s new fraud fighter
www.politico.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Outstanding practical review of the recovery modalities available and more importantly, when to implement from Martin Buchheit in this morning's Aspetar Rehab CPD session
June 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Finally in print physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
Time to rethink cold/ice after muscle injury - cold slows everything down, including healing.
Reminder that ice for injury was built on very shaky foundations.
Better strength after just 4 days, hot water also better for pain
June 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
In preparation for OSTRC 25th Anniversary, playing around thinking about the interaction of training types and parameters on different tissue types. Make an interactive app to explore here: tissueloadingsimulator-nqf3v5xzz3lysvz2wk365n.streamlit.app
Feedback appreciated
April 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Just got an advance print version of the next edition of the Aspetar Journal - Imaging in Sports Medicine targeted topic.
Maybe the best issue we've done?
All issues free, open access of course (journal.aspetar.com/en/home#!)
If sports medicine imaging is your thing, do yourself a favour
April 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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When a STALT error messes up your pagination.
April 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Sometimes you send a talk title and you think: "they probably won't go for it".

WELL, THEY SURE SHOWED ME.

The talk is on May 20th, Midday AEST. Signup is in the last skleet here. ⬇️⬇️

What's it about? I'LL TELL YOU.
April 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Elsevier giving no shits ep#98237
"Log in here to confirm your co-authorship..."
Password saved by browser rejected (too old)
Login w ORCID
"You have to link ORCID to Elsevier *for every single Elsevier journal*"
Remind me who's generating content here?
3 password resets later & Elsevier's response:
a man in a suit and tie is talking about bonus points .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking about bonus points .
media.tenor.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We are recruiting @Aspetar
Looking for #physiotherapists throughout career stages (>5yr grad) to join the Rehab Dept & greater multi-disciplinary team

Apply Here: tinyurl.com/yj6s7jcu

Any queries just reach out!
March 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I've seen lots of posts pointing out errors LLM's make, sometimes inferring this kind of AI is dumb or a dead end. This (long) video explained how LLM's really work, and gave me good insight on when and how to use & not use them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTG...
Really helpful IMO
Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
YouTube video by Andrej Karpathy
www.youtube.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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🚀 New publication!

Our RCT in BJSM shows reducing tendon compression improves rehab outcomes in insertional Achilles tendinopathy!

📊 Key findings:
✅ Greater pain relief & function
✅ Higher patient satisfaction
✅ Higher return-to-sport success
🔗 bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...
March 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
New one from our group showing that 9 months wasn't a magic cut off point for return to sport after ACLR *if* you met our discharge criteria.
bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...
*how* you return is much more important than *when* you return to sport.
Criteria driven rehab was the key to our results
Is 9 months the sweet spot for male athletes to return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction?
Objective Most studies examining the time to return to sport (RTS) after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) do not account for the athlete’s physical readiness. This study aimed to inves...
bjsm.bmj.com
March 1, 2025 at 5:49 AM