Episode 10 - Dr. Joanne Kemp. Hip Pain in Adolescents

​Dr Joanne Kemp is a Senior Research Fellow at the Latrobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, Latrobe University, Australia. She is also a titled APA Sport & Exercise Physiotherapist of 25+ years’ experience, and still practices clinically on a weekly basis.

She has 60+ peer-reviewed publications in hip pain (OA) in young and middle-aged adults, and the consequence of injury on joint health. She has received over $3 million in grant funding and has been awarded several prizes including best paper for Sports Physiotherapy Australia in 2015 and 2017. She is co-project lead for GLA:D Australia. 

Joanne has presented extensively on the management of hip pain and OA in Australia and internationally. She has a particular interest in non-surgical, exercise-based interventions that can slow the progression and reduce the symptoms associated with hip pain and OA.

 
In this episode we cover;

  • Young athletes respond differently to adults
  • Young athletes have immature skeletons, that changes as young athletes develop
  • The shape of the hip bones can change depending on the loads we put through the hip
  • We need to consider how much load we are subjected young athlete
  • The importance of the growth plates - these are still open on growing young athletes
  • We want young athletes to exercise and move in lots of different ways - not the same way all the time
  • 2 main ways that hip pain generally develops in young athletes
  • An outline of the key issues that can occur in young athletes and what to look for
  • How long should you wait before you take your young athlete to a Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist
  • When should you get imaging for hip pain?
  • FAI - or FAI Syndrome, busting the myths about what it is and what it means
  • How and why FAIS develops
  • Are there particular sports that predispose young athletes to hip pain?
  • The importance of parents as load managers
  • Young athletes need an off-season from their main sport to change the loading in their hip
  • Ask young athletes the question "Do you want this to be your career?"


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