We speak with Canadian Men’s National Basketball Team Performance Coaches Charlie Weingroff and Karamvir Gill about their experiences working with the team, getting injured athletes back to playing, and how training = rehab.
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00:28 Would you like to introduce yourselves?
01:02 Can you talk about your experience working for team Canada basketball and how you approach working together?
03:58 What’s your framework for developing a well-rounded strength and conditioning program?
06:17 At what level of sport or what age do you think it is important for kids to learn strength and conditioning?
08:22 There’s a lot of overlap between rehab programs and strength and conditioning programs. Do you look at those separately or together? How do you approach that?
10:08 What about if a player was recovering from an injury?
12:27 For physios or clinicians who aren’t working closely with a team but may be treating athletes, how would you suggest they communicate with the team coaches/strength coaches?
13:06 How can a physio at a clinic help to integrate their athlete back into their sports program?
16:34 How do you transition athletes back to playing? How do you determine when an athlete is ready to play again?
19:46 Do you use an athletes pain level as an outcome measure?
21:43 Do you incorporate pain science education into what you do with your athletes?
24:08 What are your opinions on biomechanics and how do you incorporate that into an athletes performance?
28:01 What are your thoughts on traditional physio equipment such as therabands?
28:56 Some physio clinics you go to, theres a treatment table, theraband, and weights up to 10 lbs. Do you think that is enough to get an athlete back to a high level of sport? Eg. A basketball player.
30:47 For clinicians who have not been taught a lot of strength and conditioning principles, do you have any recommendations on where they can learn that?
31:34 Do you think that strength training fundamentals should be taught in physio school?
33:02 Is there any technology that you see up and coming in this field?
33:31 Is there anything that you would like clinicians who don’t have a great idea of what you do to know?
37:19 Anything else you’d like to add in?