Ep 215: Assessing pain in athletes, with Ciarán Purcell

How do you approach assessing pain when you're working with athletes? What tools do you find most helpful? Today, sports physiotherapist and researcher, Ciarán Purcell (University of Limerick, Ireland) describes the project he is leading to gather consensus from athletes and sports medicine & rehabilitation clinicians about how best to assess athletes' pain. Listen to the end to learn about how you can get involved in the consensus! ------------------------------ RESOURCES IOC consensus on managing pain in elite athletes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28827314/ Framework for assessing upper and lower limb pain in athletes: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2024.12807 Scoping review of tools for assessing pain in athletes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36759138/ To get in touch with Ciarán about the consensus project, email ciaran.purcell@ul.ie

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The Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy brings you the JOSPT Insights podcast every Monday. On each episode, experienced clinicians and researchers unpack musculoskeletal rehabilitation topics in under 30 minutes. Guests share clinical tips and research discoveries with host Dr Clare Ardern, Editor-in-Chief of JOSPT. Sports physical therapists Dr Chelsea Cooman and Dr Dan Chapman are frequent co-hosts.