ClinicalAthlete Podcast

For years, we’ve been teaching clinicians and coaches what we believe great rehab for athletes should look like.

And for years, we’ve been doing that work ourselves as well. Which begged the question:

What if we stopped building this separately?

What if we took everything we’d learned, brought our online practices together, and built something bigger than any of us could build on our own?

Well, we spent the last two years doing exactly that. Can’t wait to tell you all about it.

We hope you enjoy!

Check out the new Clinical Athlete Website!
http://www.clinicalathlete.com

And the Physical Therapy Page!
https://clinicalathlete.com/physical-therapy/

Follow the new Physical Therapy IG page!
@clinicalathlete_pt

Follow the team leads on IG!
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt
@stephallen.dpt
@stephmundt.dpt

Ever had one of your athletes have a flare up after following YOUR program? What about after your told them it was ok to progress, then boom, setback..? What about when your athlete expects to return to sport after a specific amount of time, but it’s clear the timeline ain’t timelining?

Don’t fret – Quinn Henoch is here to discuss how to navigate the conversations around these scenarios and how to more effectively set expectations with your athletes.

We hope you enjoy!

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
Clinical Athlete Provider Cert ApplicationFree Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

Do a good job and be a fun hang… That’s all it takes to build and run a successful sports rehab clinic inside of a badass facility for over a decade. Ok, maybe there’s more to it, but those things are definitely important! On this episode, we welcome Clinical Athlete OG Teddy Willsey of Healthy Baller on to the show to talk all about the journey of building a dream clinic and provider team. Teddy is someone who just does it the right way, and we have massive respect for him and the Healthy Baller crew. There are plenty of gems in this one,

Hope you enjoy!

Connect with Teddy and Healthy Baller!
@strengthcoachtherapy
@health_baller
teddy@healthyballer.com

Healthy Baller Website
DMV Clinical Athlete Meet up!

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
Clinical Athlete Provider Cert ApplicationFree Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

Ever feel like we have to repeat certain things to our athletes, even when we thought there was a mutual understanding? Well, let’s also consider it from the athlete’s side.

On this episode, Clinical Athlete Co-Founder Quinn Henoch discusses how to navigate our athlete education more effectively, so that even if we do have to repeat ourselves, it all just becomes a useful part of the process.

Hope you enjoy!

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
Clinical Athlete Provider Cert ApplicationFree Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

On this episode, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor riff on some books that had huge influences on them as new graduates in their professional and personal development. There’s some real bangers in here that maybe you can add to your reading list!

The Books we discussed:

• Mastery by Robert Greene
• Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson
• Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz
• Afflicted by Nicole Piemonte
• Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky
• The Upside of Stress by Kelly Mcgonigal

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
Clinical Athlete Provider Cert ApplicationFree Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

Episode 151: You Ask, We Answer: Q&A w/ Quinn Henoch

On this episode, we’re answering your questions! How do we manage athletes who want to get better at all the things all the time? What about in-season and off-season training? Are dips bad? How to provide an effective strength stimulus with minimal equipment?

We discuss all of this and more,

Hope you enjoy

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
Clinical Athlete Provider Cert ApplicationFree Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

Omnipresent Exercise Prescription Process Auditor (OEPPA):

– Oh cool, you have a new athlete that you’re working with. What’s your specific role in their overall plan?

Well Meaning Physical Therapist (WMPT):

– I’m the Physical Therapist. I’ll be doing the Physical Therapy.

Omnipresent Exercise Prescription Process Auditor (OEPPA):

– That means nothing to me.

“Defining Your Role” is a foundational principle of our exercise prescription and overall planning for any athlete that we’re working with.

It’s not just repeating your professional title.

It’s also where a lot of athlete rehab plans go wrong from Day 1. Don’t be that provider. Listen to this episode.

Hope you enjoy

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
Clinical Athlete Provider Cert ApplicationFree Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

Quinn Henoch & Zak Gabor are back with another episode! On this show, we tackle some topics around exercise prescription that we know you wrestle with too — how far out do we program for our rehabbing athletes? Is it different than an athlete training only for “performance”? What does “periodization” really mean, and how do we balance being flexible enough with our programming to account for the volatility of rehab, while not losing sight of the big picture? They discuss it all.

Hope you enjoy

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
Clinical Athlete Provider Cert ApplicationFree Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

Shout out to Chris Hughen & E3Rehab for being awesome. Give them a follow!
@chrishughen
@e3rehab

Quinn Henoch & Zak Gabor are back with another episode! On this show, the CA squad sat down with Peter Malliaras who has done a TON of the research over the last decade on all things tendons and tendinopathy. You’ve probably come across some of his work, even if you didn’t realize it. He’s really helped to push the field forward. The cool thing is that he’s also a clinician, so he understands this stuff from multiple angles, and we all know how tricky tendon issue issues can be clinically. So, we’re super excited to have Peter share some of his knowledge with you on this one.

We hope you enjoy!

Connect with Peter!
http://www.tendinopathyrehab.com
ResearchGate
Monash University Profile
X: @DrPeteMalliaras
IG: @tendinopathyrehab

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
Clinical Athlete Provider Cert ApplicationFree Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

Quinn Henoch & Zak Gabor are back with another episode! On this show, the Clinical Athlete squad sat down with Kyle Thibodeaux, the owner of Refine PT & Performance. Kyle and the Refine team are one of our newest Clinical Athlete partners, and it’s a match made in heaven; because Refine is a people-first business, that puts their athletes and clients first and provides their staff with real mentorship. And that now includes the Clinical Athlete Provider certification. We pick Kyle’s brain on the types of values and habits that has helped Refine turn into a thriving and sustainable business. There are a ton of gems in this one. Also, Kyle was a part of the old Clinical Athlete Forum as a student almost a decade ago, so it’s pretty cool to see things come full circle here.

We hope you enjoy!

Connect with Kyle and Refine!
https://refineptp.com/
IG: @refineptp
Kyle’s Email: kyle@refineptp.com

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
Clinical Athlete Provider Cert ApplicationFree Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

Quinn Henoch & Zak Gabor are back with another episode! The “Honey & Vinegar” segment makes its return, as Zak rants about what annoys him on social media, and Quinn calms the waters with a shout out to coaches and other providers who put their athletes first.

And then we talked about a couple of scenarios that were going on with their athletes that had to do with athletes posing the question of using external supports such as knee wraps during training and another about modalities, in this case dry needling. These discussions with athletes can be very fruitful, but also challenging, so we talk about that a bit here.

We hope you enjoy!

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
Clinical Athlete Provider Cert ApplicationFree Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dp

On this show, Quinn Henoch & Zak Gabor discuss all of the things that make mid stage rehab challenging, and common pitfalls, like:

• Sticking arbitrarily to rigid timelines and progressing before the athlete is ready
• Waiting too long to start introducing basic entry points for your exercise categories
• Not having a clear understanding or criteria for what qualities need to be prioritized

Also, we are VERY excited to introduce a new segment, where Zak and Quinn bring a little honey and vinegar to the rehab space — and Quinn got to put on his hater shades! We’re still open to names for this segment, so feel free to help us out!

We hope you enjoy!

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
Clinical Athlete Provider Cert ApplicationFree Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

Shout out to Erik Miera!
Science PT WebsiteIG: @erikmeirapt
X: @erikmeira

On this show, we are joined by Kellen Cannon who is a badass Physical Therapist who loves working with active people and the athletic population within her own business — but, has also been a travel PT for several years now. And that’s the part that we really dive into on this show. Travel PT seems like this huge unknown to a lot of people, and you definitely hear about all the cons and horror stories that are seemingly associated with it. But are those things even true? What are some of the pros? If this is ever something that you have considered for your own career, or know someone who is, this is the show. Kellen goes into so much useful detail and gives us an insider perspective on the ins and outs of travel PT, and we’re really appreciative to her for sharing these insights.

We hope you enjoy!

Connect with Kellen:
@yourtravelptfriend
@kellencannon

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
Clinical Athlete Provider Cert ApplicationFree Clinical Athlete Facebook Community

On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

What are the core values of being a Clinical Athlete Provider? On this episode, Quinn Henoch & Zak Gabor discuss what being a Clinical Athlete provider is all about, by sharing the CA Provider Code. And we think adopting these tenets would be beneficial for anyone listening, so hopefully you pick up a lot of gems in this episode.

We hope you enjoy!

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
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On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

On this episode we welcome a very special guest. Many of you know him already, because he’s been part of the Clinical Athlete community since 2016, and was the podcast co-host for several years. It’s Jared Maynard. He’s back! We had countless shows in the past with Jared, in which we talked X’s and O’s of training, deep sciency stuff, but this show is a little different. Jared has been on quite the ride — around this time 5 years ago, he was literally fighting for his life, spending 5 weeks in the ICU with a body that was failing him. Ask the doctors that worked with him directly, the fact that he’s talking to us now is nothing short of miraculous. So, that’s what we’re talking about today — Jared’s story, it’s one of overcoming odds and coming back stronger with some powerful messages for anyone to take away for their personal lives, their coaching, or clinical practice.

We hope you enjoy!

Connect with Jared:
@jared.unbreakable

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
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On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

On this episode we have the whole Executive Clinical Athlete Provider Mentor Team — Quinn Henoch, Zak Gabor, Steph Allen, and Steph Mundt. We started as the 4 mentors in the Clinical Athlete Provider Certification Program exactly two years ago in March of 2024. Our mentor team has now grown to 8 and counting, but there’s been a ton of growth in many other aspects over the last 2 years. So, we thought it’d be a great opportunity to get the 4 of us on the show for the first time together, and reflect on the last two years. There’s a lot of great nuggets to take away from this about working with a team and continuing your professional development within leadership positions.

We hope you enjoy!

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
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On IG:
@stephallen.dpt
@stephmundt.dpt
@clinicalathlete
@zakgabor.dpt
@quinn.henochdpt

On this episode Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor talk about a really important topic — the best Ninendo 64 games of all time. We actually do talk about that, but also, we talk about timelines in rehab and communication with our athletes around forecasting and prediction of how rehab should go, how long it will take — all of the things that give us anxiety but that we address on a regular basis in our practice. What makes up our timeline predictions? And what happens if the original timelines that we communicated don’t match up with how the athlete’s rehab is actually going? We dig into all of that and more.

We hope you enjoy!

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
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On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

On this episode we welcome an awesome guest — The Plyo guy himself and creator of Plusplyos Matt McInnes Watson. Matt is an absolute go-to resource for anything and everything regarding plyometrics, and has had a big influence on us and how we view these things within the Clinical Athlete community. What the heck does “plyometric” even mean? How can we break down the barriers to entry for coaching, programming, and performing these movements? We cover it all with Matt, this was an absolute banger.

We hope you enjoy!

Connect with Matt:
@mcinneswatson
@plusplyos
https://www.plusplyos.com/

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
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On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

On this episode we welcome an awesome guest — Ben Cormack. Ben has been a valuable resource to the Clinical Athlete community for years with his practical educational content around pain and exercise.

We think both providers, athletes, and clients alike will find this one if chalk full of practical recommendations for managing the pain experience while ultimately achieving your physical activity goals.

We hope you enjoy!

Connect with Ben:
@corkinetic
https://www.cor-kinetic.co.uk

Connect with Clinical Athlete:
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On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt

It’s a Clinical Athlete Diary vibe.

When’s the last time you re-read a book or retook a course, instead of buying a new one? Hmm…

Also, you ever struggle with tracking your athlete’s symptoms in rehab? Or find it to be a slippery slope to have a goal be for them to have no more pain flare ups? Me too. Let’s talk about it all.

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On IG:
@clinicalathlete
@quinn.henochdpt
@zakgabor.dpt