Mick Girdwood – knee injuries, osteoarthritis and relationship with hip and knee muscle strength

Mick Girdwood is a physiotherapist, researcher, and PhD candidate. We spoke about his research on knee injuries and osteoarthritis, and their association with the strength of the hip and knee muscles. We finished with a discussion about outcome measures you can use in the clinic and the importance of considering the goals and activities that are most important to the patient/person. Thanks, Mick for a great conversation.

In this episode:

• 0:00 About this episode and welcome Mick
• 1:55 What drew you to physiotherapy?
• 9:00 Journey into research – how did this start?
• 11:27 Mick’s PhD in ACL injuries and getting started as a research assistant
• 18:00 Knee research
• 23:20 Hip and knee strength – association with patient outcomes
• 25:55 Change in strength over time after ACL injury
• 30:57 Outcome measures for ACL injury – what’s important to the patient? Goal setting and re-measuring against goals
• 35:20 Hop strengths are not tests of strength – considering movement confidence and other patient outcomes
• 41:29 Final thoughts

You can read more about Mick and his research here

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