Dr Claire Minshull

@claireminshull.bsky.social

Research-led education & training for healthcare professionals in Strength & Conditioning. Passionate about OA. 🏋️‍♂️Director of Get Back To Sport 🎓Visiting Prof Leeds Beckett 🦵🏼 Co-Founder Joint Approach https://jointapproach.co.uk

Had an absolute blast of a day with these awesome physios filming hip strength testing using #dynamometry, exploring what’s possible, repeatable & can be standardised in clinic just using a plinth. Some tension & compression dynamometer options. All videos feature in my course

I’m often asked which dynamometer to buy & about testing in rehab. 1st response -what data do you want to obtain? 2nd- why do you want it? Do you want to use data in decision making, or as a motivational aid? Answer this THEN we can consider which tool 👍🏻

A muscle’s contractile history influences its subsequent performance. Doesn’t always have to be negative. We can use potentiating mechanisms in clinical practice to overcome inhibition, or augment RFD & Power-based rehab👍🏻

These types of statements, in published papers really really annoy me 😡 Reader led to believe that break tests are associated with ⬆️ risks of injuries & these papers evidence it They don’t ! ‘Throw away’ statements like this can have a profound impact. Authors & reviewers please do better

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Question for you… What’s the sampling frequency of the Lafayette HHD - used in many research papers ? Sampling frequency = number of data points obtained obtained per second 1️⃣ 40Hz 2️⃣ 125 Hz 3️⃣ 1000Hz (See if you can avoid looking it up 😉)