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Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Jamie Quinto, a physical therapist in the Bethesda clinic who has become one of the most requested therapists in the practice about a year into her career. Yoni wanted to know how she got good this fast. Her answer is that she stopped trying to have every answer. She builds goals with a patient in the first session and measures each visit against them. It is also how she handles the question every clinician gets asked: how long is this going to take? She gives a range and a checkpoint instead of a date she cannot keep. They get into what PT school leaves out. Talking to referring surgeons is the skill Jamie says she is still working on, and she is blunt about what fails: a note reporting degrees of flexion and nothing else. The back half is basketball. A point guard and a center can walk in with the same Achilles tendinopathy and still need different loading. If you are a new grad, you treat court athletes, or you want referral relationships that hold up, this one is worth your time. #TrueSportsPT #JamieQuinto #BasketballRehab #SportsPhysicalTherapy #NewGradPT #PTMentorship #PhysicalTherapy #SportsRehab #RehabPodcast #SportsPT

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Roger St. Onge, a residency and fellowship trained physical therapist who now coaches clinicians on how to think through an evaluation rather than how to collect more tools.   The conversation opens on patterns. Roger makes the case that most of the diagnostic picture comes from the subjective, that the objective exam needs at least two differentials to eliminate, and that testing should be built to prove you wrong instead of confirming what you already believe. He walks through the MAPs he listens for: the movements, activities, positions, and situations that fill a patient's day.   From there he treats the nervous system as a set of vital signs rather than a screen. Reflexes, myotomal strength, and neural tension sensitivity show what symptoms cannot, and Roger explains how he grades neurological fatigability, why he reads pain on a 24-hour clock, and how an athlete a year past ACL surgery finally passed return to sport testing once his lumbar spine was addressed.   If you evaluate orthopedic or athletic patients and want a system instead of more knowledge, tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #RogerStOnge #PhysicalTherapy #SportsRehab #Radiculopathy #DifferentialDiagnosis #ManualTherapy #PTEvaluation #RehabPodcast #SportsPT

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Mike Stella, an athletic trainer and the founder of The Movement Underground in New York. Mike traces his path from Division I training rooms to building a multidisciplinary practice for athletes and active adults. They unpack the economics behind professional sports medicine: why experienced head clinicians spend less time treating, why assistants carry so much day-to-day care, and why top athletes often build their own outside teams. Mike also explains what physical therapists misunderstand about athletic trainers, from the context they gain by seeing athletes every day to the liability and hierarchy behind gatekeeping. The conversation then shifts to Growth Engine, Mike's framework for clinicians learning storytelling, systems, hiring, and value communication without abandoning evidence or ethics. He also shares his vision for movement-led primary care, where good generalists coordinate the system, specialists enter when needed, and resistance training becomes part of long-term self-preservation. If you work in sports medicine, run a clinic, or want better collaboration across credentials, tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #MikeStella #AthleticTraining #SportsMedicine #MovementUnderground #PTBusiness #PhysicalTherapy #SportsRehab #RehabPodcast #SportsPT

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. This episode flips the format: Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt takes the guest seat, fielding questions from Jared Aaron of Coherent Healthcare, whose “Business of a Clinic” podcast covers the operational side of running healthcare practices.   The conversation walks through the full scaling story: growing True Sports from a single rented room to 19 clinics and 80 physical therapists, with two more locations on the way, building career ladders for sports PTs, hiring for growth mindset and coachability over credentials, and bringing in COO Dr. Tim Stone to introduce the concept of scale.   Yoni tells the origin story in full, from a $400-a-month room in the back of a repurposed church to the lacrosse families who drove into Baltimore City during a difficult stretch to keep seeing him. He also draws the distinction True Sports now builds its leadership programming around: responsibility means checking boxes, accountability means seeing tasks through to completion.    If you own a clinic, are thinking about opening one, or want to see how the business side of sports physical therapy actually runs, this episode is for you. Tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #YoniRosenblatt #JaredAaron #PTBusiness #ClinicOwnership #PhysicalTherapy #SportsRehab #RehabPodcast #SportsPT #PTEntrepreneur

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Gregory DiFelice, an orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery who has spent close to 20 years repairing ACLs rather than replacing them.   He lays out Preservation First, his algorithm for sorting ACL tears by tear type and tissue quality, and the four lanes it runs through: repair, BEAR, augmentation, and reconstruction as a last resort. He also explains why the field abandoned repair decades ago, what the 1993 paper that buried it actually said, and why he thinks the current direction of ACL surgery is big, bigger, and biggest.   The second half is built for sports PTs. Dr. DiFelice drains every patient's knee at the first visit, shares the data his group presented on what that does to range of motion and quad firing within 10 minutes, and explains why he moved his protocols off the calendar and onto milestones. He is also candid about the cohort where his own published failure rate was high and what he changed because of it.   If you rehab ACLs, this conversation will change what you think you are treating. Tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #GregoryDiFelice #ACLRepair #PreservationFirst #BEARImplant #ACLRehab #SportsMedicine #KneeSurgery #SportsPhysicalTherapy #RehabPodcast

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Kevin Johnson, the trainer behind Team Ascension in Virginia, whose client list runs from middle school athletes to All-Pro NFL talent.   Kevin's path into the profession is unlike any guest we have had on. He walks through the two and a half years he spent incarcerated, where a thousand push-ups a day and a deck of cards turned into a training system and a following of inmates who wanted in. That became the blueprint for everything he built afterward.   The conversation gets into how he landed his first pro client in a Chuck E. Cheese, why he told that athlete no when he showed up late, and how holding that line earned the respect that built the business. Kevin and Yoni compare notes on setting a precedent with your first big-name client, the gratitude mindset behind training someone in a cave with two rocks, and how Kevin assesses force absorption before he ever lets an athlete chase speed.   If you are a clinician, coach, or trainer trying to build something real, this one is worth your time. Tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #KevinJohnson #TeamAscension #StrengthAndConditioning #AthleteDevelopment #SportsPerformance #PTBusiness #SpeedTraining #SportsPhysicalTherapy #RehabPodcast

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Justin Farnsworth, founder of Rebuilt Strength in Rochester, New York, a physical therapist who spent over a decade coaching in the fitness industry before PT school.   Justin makes the case that rehab is training, and that most clinicians were never taught to program. They get into the characteristics rehab tends to skip: power, which lives at 3 to 5 reps rather than 3 sets of 10, strength, which requires real strain and not just fatigue, and hypertrophy, which comes down to mechanical tension and proximity to failure. He also rethinks activation, breaking down yielding and overcoming isometrics and where potentiation belongs in a session.   The conversation covers his pre-fatigue hack for return to sport testing, built with a leg press, a tape measure, and his eyes rather than a $10,000 machine. It closes on the business of physical therapy, and why understanding math is not the opposite of altruism but the thing that keeps the lights on.   If you are a clinician, coach, or new grad who wants a bigger toolbox, this one is full of gold. Tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #JustinFarnsworth #RebuiltStrength #RehabIsTraining #StrengthAndConditioning #PostActivationPotentiation #ReturnToSport #PTBusiness #SportsPhysicalTherapy #RehabPodcast

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Vikash Sharma, DPT, OCS, COMT, CFSC, founder of Perfect Stride Physical Therapy in Manhattan, a board-certified orthopedic clinician, certified strength coach, and run coach who has spent over a decade building an out-of-network practice niched entirely around runners.   They dig into the patient population that intimidates so many clinicians: the high-level marathoner who feels great until mile 23. Vikash explains why his first question is almost always about nutrition and fueling, not the tissue, and how a training block can expose a problem that was there all along.   The conversation also covers what "tendons love load" actually means in practice, from desensitizing an acute Achilles to progressing through heavy isometrics, eccentrics, plyometrics, and back to running. They get into strength programming across all three planes of motion, and the hard-won business lesson of working on the practice instead of in it.   If you treat runners, coach them, or are building a clinic of your own, this one is full of gold. Tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #VikashSharma #PerfectStride #RunningRehab #AchillesTendinopathy #StrengthForRunners #SportsPhysicalTherapy #PTBusiness #PTPodcast #RehabPodcast

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down for the third time with Jack Rasmussen, founder of Caddix Cleats, the company behind the Smart Studs that move with the athlete and decrease force up the kinetic chain.   Jack traces the whole arc: from making beds as a housekeeper and watching a player go down on an open field, to building a cleat now worn by nearly 100 NFL players, Team USA Lacrosse, and Olympic athletes. He and Yoni dig into the decisions PTs face too, including why he turned down $80 million in funding and a $20 million buyout on gut feeling alone.   It also covers the science a clinician can stand behind: the Rush University testing that showed reduced peak force at the ankle, knee, and hip, plus reduced hip adduction and knee valgus, the first step of an ACL tear. Jack is careful about that claim, and the precision is the point. They also get into why athletes are breaking down earlier than ever.   If you are a sports PT, a clinic owner weighing your next big decision, or building something from scratch, this one carries lessons on both the business and the biomechanics. Tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #JackRasmussen #CaddixCleats #SportsBiomechanics #ACLPrevention #Entrepreneurship #SportsPhysicalTherapy #InjuryPrevention #PTPodcast #RehabPodcast

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Marc Pietropaoli, MD, orthopedic surgeon out of Syracuse, NY, founder of Victory in Motion, and author of Repair Not Replace: Natural Joint Relief Without Surgery or Pills.   Dr. P walks through the regenerative medicine philosophy he built after training under Dr. James Andrews and Kevin Wilk: treat the body as something that heals itself, and only operate when nothing else will work. They get into the PRP literature, why dose matters more than almost any other variable, the difference between leukocyte-rich and leukocyte-poor preparations, and the case for treating the knee as an organ instead of injecting only intra-articularly.   The conversation also covers Dr. Hernigot's landmark bone marrow study (82% of severely arthritic knees never needed replacement at 15-year follow-up), how the Victory Method's Clarity Day combines physical exam, ultrasound, MRI, and a full hour with V Motion Fit, and the long-game mission to eliminate knee replacements by 2043 through prevention.   If you are a sports PT working alongside orthopedic referrals or fielding patient questions about PRP, biologics, and surgical alternatives, this one will sharpen how you vet providers and how you talk about regenerative care. Tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #MarcPietropaoli #Pietropaoli #RepairNotReplace #RegenerativeMedicine #PRP #BoneMarrowAspirate #SportsPhysicalTherapy #KneeArthritis #PTPodcast #RehabPodcast

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Odell Miller, former NFL athlete, businessman turned physical therapist, and owner of Off the Bench Physical Therapy.   Odell unpacks the cash versus in-network debate, why he chose a premium cash model from day one, and how he hit $51K months as a new grad inside six months. They get into the art of the handoff (how to position a clinic so it is not built around the founder), Gary Vee's "hire fast, fire faster" approach, and what to actually look for in an interview beyond the rehearsed answers.   The conversation also dives into Myron Golden's implementation ladder (implementation, management, communication, imagination) and why staying small and treating every patient yourself is doing the world a disservice. Odell shares his content philosophy (documentation over creation), how he lives in his van to reinvest cash into the business, the mentorship lens he uses to pick coaches, and why building leaders beats managing people.   If you are a PT student, new grad, or clinic owner thinking about scale, this one will fire you up. Tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #OdellMiller #OffTheBench #PTBusiness #CashBasedPT #SportsPhysicalTherapy #NewGradPT #PTPodcast #PhysicalTherapy #RehabPodcast

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Kevin Lynch, a brand new UMB graduate, former Division I lacrosse captain at the University of Delaware, NLL Philadelphia Wings alum, and the newest staff PT at the True Sports Bare Hills location.   Kevin walks through how he prepped for and passed the NPTE on the first try, why he believes the CSCS exam was more applicable to outpatient MSK than the boards themselves, and the gaps in PT school curriculum around movement deviations, exercise prescription, and the business of physical therapy.   The conversation also unpacks how to build and maintain professional relationships from PT student to first job, what truly separates a good outpatient PT from a great sports PT, and why coaching youth athletes is one of the fastest ways to level up your clinical communication. Kev closes with the Eric Cressey lightning round covering The Hard Hat, the Daily Stoic, and the PTs he watches outside True Sports.   If you are a PT student, new grad, or clinic owner thinking about hiring, this conversation is loaded with practical guidance. Tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #KevinLynch #PTStudent #NPTE #CSCS #SportsPhysicalTherapy #NewGradPT #PTSchool #PhysicalTherapy #RehabPodcast

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Zack Atwood, owner of Primal Recovery PT and Performance, founder of the ACL Institute, and the creator behind The Football Doc on Instagram.   Zack walks through how he thinks about graft selection across age and sport demands, when an LET (lateral extra-articular tenodesis) earns its place in a primary repair, and why retear rates may be tracking better with modern hamstring + LET combinations. He explains arthrogenic muscle inhibition, why the calves get neglected in ACL rehab, and how focal joint cooling, NMES, and BFR change what is possible in the first 6 to 8 weeks.   The conversation also unpacks why limb symmetry index can mislead clinicians and parents, how peak torque to body weight gives a far truer picture of readiness, and why Derek Hansen's 10x10 protocol is replacing traditional run-walk progressions for field sport athletes returning to sprint.   If you are a sports PT, student, or clinic owner who wants to level up ACL rehab and return-to-sport decision making, this conversation will sharpen every phase of your program. Tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #ZackAtwood #ACLRehab #ACLInstitute #SportsPhysicalTherapy #ReturnToSport #ForcePlateTesting #TorqueToBodyWeight #PhysicalTherapy #RehabPodcast

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. Today's episode is a rewind of one of Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt's favorite conversations: Dr. Frank Benedetto, founder of the Honey Badger Project, a business incubator for healthcare clinicians modeled after Y Combinator. Frank breaks down why grad schools fail clinicians on business, the consolidation and fragmentation cycle playing out in PT right now, and the lean startup principles that make bank loans obsolete for most new practices. He explains why your gym choice dictates your income ceiling more than any other variable, and how to progress from basic HEP apps into hardware-software integrated member journeys. The conversation also digs into the money-versus-mission problem baked into PT education: why clinicians are taught that business is dirty, why that framing costs patients, and why a lean, ethical practice is the vehicle for impact rather than the obstacle to it. If you're a startup clinician, a cash-based practice owner, or an established operator looking to add revenue streams, this episode will reframe how you think about business as the vehicle for mission. Tune in. #TrueSportsPT #FrankBenedetto #HoneyBadgerProject #PracticeModel #CashBasedPT #PTBusiness #HealthcareInnovation #PhysicalTherapy #PrivatePractice #RehabPodcast

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Brent Brookbush, founder of the Brookbush Institute, longtime educator, and one of the most outspoken voices in rehab education.   Brent breaks down why so much continuing education feels evidence-based without actually being built on comprehensive research review. He explains what outcome-driven education really means, why original research matters more than recycled summaries, and how clinicians should think about expected value when choosing interventions.   The conversation also digs into the profession's bigger structural problems: why outdated board content survives for years, why many so-called experts are not reading research or measuring outcomes, and how that disconnect shapes what students and clinicians are taught.   If you're a sports PT, clinic owner, student, or educator trying to think more clearly about evidence, outcomes, and clinical decision-making, this episode will challenge how you evaluate rehab information. Tune in.   #TrueSportsPT #BrentBrookbush #EvidenceBasedPractice #PhysicalTherapy #SportsRehab #PTEducation #OutcomeDriven #ClinicalReasoning #RehabPodcast #SportsPT