Rod Whiteley
@rodwhiteley.bsky.social
Physiotherapist at Aspetar Sports Medicine Hospital.
I used to be a terrible baseball player, but my arm hurts now
I used to be a terrible baseball player, but my arm hurts now
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)
Please share far and wide (your national Olympic Committee has the details)
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 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)
Please share far and wide (your national Olympic Committee has the details)
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!
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
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!
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!
I said pressure pain thresholds were a bust - statistically we had an increase at the site of pain (not at Tib ant on the same leg or the lateral elbow) but I think this effect is pretty small when you look at the raw data, & maybe down to this group starting a wee bit lower
August 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I said pressure pain thresholds were a bust - statistically we had an increase at the site of pain (not at Tib ant on the same leg or the lateral elbow) but I think this effect is pretty small when you look at the raw data, & maybe down to this group starting a wee bit lower
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
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
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
Probably not due to sensitisation-local or global
When you need to do strength training but can't might be an option
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
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
Spotted this guy eating his lunch while walking through downtown Kuala Lumpur today
July 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Spotted this guy eating his lunch while walking through downtown Kuala Lumpur today
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
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
The Tawny Frogmouths that lived in our paperback trees on the Central cost of NSW were pretty good at hiding too
June 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The Tawny Frogmouths that lived in our paperback trees on the Central cost of NSW were pretty good at hiding too
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
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
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
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
Taking a tangent here, but "nonplussed" is a term that's taking on the opposite of it's original meaning, like "quantum leap" (originally, literally the smallest possible jump in energy state).
Any others you can think of?
Any others you can think of?
April 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Taking a tangent here, but "nonplussed" is a term that's taking on the opposite of it's original meaning, like "quantum leap" (originally, literally the smallest possible jump in energy state).
Any others you can think of?
Any others you can think of?
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
Feedback appreciated
April 26, 2025 at 6:41 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
Feedback appreciated
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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!
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!
New from Lauren Pringels & co confirming previous research suggesting compressive aetiology of some tendinopathy & the need for different management (avoiding compression): bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsp... (LTCR=Low tendon compression rehab)
February 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
New from Lauren Pringels & co confirming previous research suggesting compressive aetiology of some tendinopathy & the need for different management (avoiding compression): bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsp... (LTCR=Low tendon compression rehab)
Excellent short overview of the state of play in muscle and tendon injury management in athletes from Michael Kjaer & co: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... importantly outlining where we should be focusing our efforts next.
#OpenAccess
#OpenAccess
February 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Excellent short overview of the state of play in muscle and tendon injury management in athletes from Michael Kjaer & co: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... importantly outlining where we should be focusing our efforts next.
#OpenAccess
#OpenAccess
Elsevier's review process adding more value to science...
January 26, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Elsevier's review process adding more value to science...
Easier way for the athlete to get more DF force than just using their arms is to wrap the belts around their upper trunkBTW
January 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Easier way for the athlete to get more DF force than just using their arms is to wrap the belts around their upper trunkBTW
It's a distractor attachment they use in ankle arthroscopy. The "real" ones cost about 200 Euros, our one made at the tent souk here in Doha cost us $2, and took 10 minutes for him to make (I got him to make me a dozen)
January 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It's a distractor attachment they use in ankle arthroscopy. The "real" ones cost about 200 Euros, our one made at the tent souk here in Doha cost us $2, and took 10 minutes for him to make (I got him to make me a dozen)
Nice trick from Hercules Pacquet here at Aspetar to get ankle DF ROM - pulley has 60kg (for this 100kg athlete) & patient self-mobilises.
Saves my hands & better results.
We did 3x6 mins, got 4.5cm DF ROM increase immediately, dropped to 3cm increase the next day.
Saves my hands & better results.
We did 3x6 mins, got 4.5cm DF ROM increase immediately, dropped to 3cm increase the next day.
January 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Nice trick from Hercules Pacquet here at Aspetar to get ankle DF ROM - pulley has 60kg (for this 100kg athlete) & patient self-mobilises.
Saves my hands & better results.
We did 3x6 mins, got 4.5cm DF ROM increase immediately, dropped to 3cm increase the next day.
Saves my hands & better results.
We did 3x6 mins, got 4.5cm DF ROM increase immediately, dropped to 3cm increase the next day.
Hard agree.
In unrelated news, thought of you when I saw this cool livery on a plane on the ground in Auckland, thought you might like it.
In unrelated news, thought of you when I saw this cool livery on a plane on the ground in Auckland, thought you might like it.
December 31, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Hard agree.
In unrelated news, thought of you when I saw this cool livery on a plane on the ground in Auckland, thought you might like it.
In unrelated news, thought of you when I saw this cool livery on a plane on the ground in Auckland, thought you might like it.
A jointplot (this one is done in Seaborn) can be helpful if you have different groups to visualise within the reliability trial, and the Bland-Altman /Turkey man difference lets you see if that's something weird like overestimating the second measure when the values are large, say
December 7, 2024 at 1:58 AM
A jointplot (this one is done in Seaborn) can be helpful if you have different groups to visualise within the reliability trial, and the Bland-Altman /Turkey man difference lets you see if that's something weird like overestimating the second measure when the values are large, say
Nice tradition to close off the streets, then walk graduates and their families from Uni to the Town Hall for the ceremony with locals from Dunedin cheering from the sidelines
December 6, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Nice tradition to close off the streets, then walk graduates and their families from Uni to the Town Hall for the ceremony with locals from Dunedin cheering from the sidelines
Wonderful graduation ceremony for the new physiotherapists graduating from the University of Otago. Impressive group indeed, looking forward to how they drive the prison forward.
December 6, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Wonderful graduation ceremony for the new physiotherapists graduating from the University of Otago. Impressive group indeed, looking forward to how they drive the prison forward.
Injury prevention programmes that include heavy loading work, but compliance is poor. Here in Qatar our compliance improved when the players and technical staff along with their medical staff were engaged in the process, and injury rates reduced (last couple of years)
November 19, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Injury prevention programmes that include heavy loading work, but compliance is poor. Here in Qatar our compliance improved when the players and technical staff along with their medical staff were engaged in the process, and injury rates reduced (last couple of years)
Adding more training sessions before returning a player to a match after an injury will reduce their risk, and now we have some numbers to quantify the risk/reward & help make an informed decision
November 19, 2024 at 6:57 AM
Adding more training sessions before returning a player to a match after an injury will reduce their risk, and now we have some numbers to quantify the risk/reward & help make an informed decision