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MSKMag OutLoud
MSKMag combines cutting edge clinical opinion with light hearted relief from the daily grind! Featuring insights from the finest minds in the MSK industry, MSKMag will keep you up to date with best practice evidence and the best topical memes.
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Episodes
MSKMag OutLoudOsteoporotic Vertebral Fractures: are we doing enough?
Vertebral fractures are one of the most common osteoporotic fractures, yet they are the one that we miss most often. Case study A 58-year-old woman presents…
MSKMag OutLoudWho's Actually Keeping Physios in Check?
If I think about my own appointments with physiotherapists as a patient recently, I’ve been told I need an MRI and I’ve been told I don’t. I’ve been told I…
MSKMag OutLoudPerimenopause and musculoskeletal health: what you need to know
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com If you’re a clinician or working with active women, you’ll probably recognise…
MSKMag OutLoudHeadache patients – dream or nightmare? Top tips from my headache student clinics
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Are you ever uneasy when faced with a headache patient? Could you recognise…
MSKMag OutLoudEveryone Thinks AI Can Do Anything. Just Not What They Do
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com It can write their marketing, answer their emails and probably do their…
MSKMag OutLoudThe Art of Managing Uncertainty in Clinical Practice
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com As I write this, many are bracing themselves for the start of a new school…
MSKMag OutLoudForecast: Uncertain - Editorial - MSKMag Issue 35
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com In recent years I have become obsessed with the Northern Lights. This is good…
MSKMag OutLoudThe Zebra Farm: When Anterior Knee Pain Isn’t Patellofemoral Pain
With cases from James Noake In musculoskeletal medicine, we are trained to recognise patterns. Most of the time, the answer sits comfortably within the…
MSKMag OutLoudHealthcare's best-kept secret - the pelvic floor (and why every therapist needs to know about it)
It always struck me as bizarre that sports medicine and musculoskeletal specialties deal with pain and dysfunction from head to toe in the human body, yet…
MSKMag OutLoudScar Scepticism: what’s the big deal with scarring?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com You may already be treating scars. You may not. You may have no idea that…
MSKMag OutLoudRunning Injury Rehab: The Diagnosis Is Only Part of the Story
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com When I first started writing this article, I found myself writing a more…
MSKMag OutLoudEvery Day I’m Hustlin'
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com It is 2am on a Tuesday and my girlfriend (now wife) isn’t necessarily grumpy…
MSKMag OutLoudFirst-Rate Second Opinions
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com What actually is a second opinion? Many will think that a second opinion is…
MSKMag OutLoudThe Great North Logistical Headache - Editorial - MSKMag Issue 34
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Here in the North East of England, we are emerging from Great North Run…
MSKMag OutLoudMSK’s Lost Carrots & Sticks
Rewards for quality, consequences for a lack of. It’s not a big ask, is it?! Yet to my eye we have neither and it risks stagnating the MSK industry. In any…
MSKMag OutLoudAI solved our notes - but can it improve care?
A few years ago, if you asked most clinicians what they wanted AI to do, ‘write my notes’ would have been pretty high on the list. Which is fair enough; nobody…
MSKMag OutLoudMSKMag goes to... Neko Health
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com In case you haven’t heard of Neko Health, let me enlighten you. Neko Health…
MSKMag OutLoudChildren Are Not Mini Adults: Rethinking Sudden Anterior Knee Pain in the Skeletally Immature Athlete
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com A 12-year-old soccer player lands in knee flexion from a jump and develops…
MSKMag OutLoudCore Memories: The Physio Matters Podcast Session 3 - The Rugby Shoulder with Ian Horsley, 2014
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com In 2014, Dr Ian Horsley joined Jack Chew on the Physio Matters Podcast to…
MSKMag OutLoudTendons: What’s Load Got to Do With It?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Tendons are frequently discussed as though loading is either therapeutic or…
MSKMag OutLoudRecalibrating the Scales - Editorial - MSKMag Issue 33
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Happy New Football Season to all who celebrate! And godspeed to all my fellow…
MSKMag OutLoudAuntie Version - MSKMag's Agony Aunt - August 2026
Hello! I’m Auntie Version (aka Jo Turner) and I am unbelievably excited to be MSKMag’s very own agony aunt. Oh the arrogance in my assumption that I have any…
MSKMag OutLoudThe Biggest Wins in the NHS are Cheap
A community pilot reduced musculoskeletal waiting lists by 20%, and its reward was a national budget smaller than the pilot itself. The announcement, stripped…
MSKMag OutLoudBeyond the Bump: Reframing High-Grade AC Joint Injury
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com A rugby player lands heavily on the point of his shoulder. He’s ‘done’ his AC…
MSKMag OutLoudThe Forgotten Child of MSK: Why Paediatric Services Deserve a Bigger Voice
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com “Children aren’t mini adults” is a phrase we hear a lot to highlight the…
MSKMag OutLoudOff the Treadmill, Into the Field How might nature shape the future of MSK care?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Observing clinicians across the landscape of musculoskeletal care, I see the…
MSKMag OutLoudThe Diagnosis That Keeps Getting Missed: Adult Hip Dysplasia
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com She was 25 and needed a hip replacement — how can we stop this happening? Not…
MSKMag OutLoudTime in Range - Editorial - MSKMag Issue 32
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com When was the last time you ate something without some input from a medical…
MSKMag OutLoudThe Zebra Farm: Calf pain
With cases from Dr James Noake In musculoskeletal medicine, we are trained to recognise patterns. Most of the time, the answer sits comfortably within the…
MSKMag OutLoudChewy and Jim - Navigating The System
Chewy and Jim are back - the lads were evaporating during the recording this month as the weather matched their opinions for heat… Chewy and Jim is best…
MSKMag OutLoudThe Beak Is The Breadcrumb: Tarsal Coalition and the Pain That Points the Wrong Way
A 24-year-old middle distance runner came in with dorsal midfoot pain – just distal to a little lump at the dorsal talonavicular joint. By the time she reached…
MSKMag OutLoudThe Soft Tissue Cost of Testosterone
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com As testosterone injections become normalised for strength, physique and…
MSKMag OutLoudIs this the writing on the wall for First Contact and Advanced Practitioners in the NHS?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com In May 2026, the British Medical Association, the largest doctors’ union in…
MSKMag OutLoudPhysiotherapy Education: Getting Graduates Ready for What Exactly?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Are physiotherapy graduates ready for practice? If you’ve ever asked this…
MSKMag OutLoudAn Axolotl at Breakfast - Editorial - MSKMag Issue 31
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com I recently spent some time with my five-year-old nephew on a family trip. As…
MSKMag OutLoudBeware Concierge Healthcare
The following is not a real service. That is important to say upfront, because the uncomfortable truth is that it easily could be. If it were not so off-brand…
MSKMag OutLoudFighting talk - Grappling with Combat Sports Rehab
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com My interest in MSK healthcare grew out of my obsession with combat sports. In…
MSKMag OutLoudSwitching MSK practice management software: what it actually involves (and why it's probably less painful than you think)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com If you’ve ever caught yourself muttering “there has to be a better system…
MSKMag OutLoudNotes on PAD
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Vascular claudication is angina in the legs: pain that starts when plaque…
MSKMag OutLoudAI in MSK: Useful Tool or Clever Distraction?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com AI in MSK is not about replacing physios; it is about removing friction…
MSKMag OutLoudGreat Expectations - Editorial - MSKMag Issue 30
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Is it normal to assume that whenever someone cancels their appointment…
MSKMag OutLoudWho is Responsible?
I look around the waiting room. There’s an average BMI of about 40. I observe oedematous ankles and a variety of walking aids (some flowery so you know they’re…
MSKMag OutLoudShockwave Therapy: A Love-Hate Story, and Everything In Between
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Shockwave therapy… I was surprised to hear it hadn’t been covered in MSKMag…
MSKMag OutLoudPhysios are nice...and it's killing our profession
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Putting the finishing touches to this article, I skim back over the Writer’s…
MSKMag OutLoudThe Corporate Athlete
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com If you mention the words ‘elite performance’, most people will think of…
MSKMag OutLoudDo adolescents get rotator cuff tendinopathy?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com The short answer is no - at least not in the way the term is typically…
MSKMag OutLoudWhat's Spanish for 'nice'? - Editorial - MSKMag Issue 29
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com ¡Buenos dias! I’ve been in Valencia for a few days to explore the city, get…
MSKMag OutLoudCore Memories: The Physio Matters Podcast Session 10 - 28/09/2014 with Ann Gates
In 2014, clinical pharmacist and exercise medicine champion Ann Gates spoke to Jack Chew on The Physio Matters Podcast about the need to reposition physical…
MSKMag OutLoudFinding true value: how to build something worth selling
I spent the better part of a decade buying MSK practices before I ever helped anyone sell one. I founded a physiotherapy clinic group in my twenties, growing…
MSKMag OutLoudIndustrialised Rehabilitation: Where Does the Patient Sit?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Recently I found myself in two very different rooms: Laing Buisson’s Out of…
MSKMag OutLoudTrained to Struggle?: Why MSK physio needs to be its own degree
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Picture it. The next patient is walking through the door and you don’t have a…
MSKMag OutLoudWhat is Expertise?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Expertise is special skill or knowledge that is acquired by training, study…
MSKMag OutLoudThe Best Dynamometer For Clinical Practice
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Dynamometry and assessment of performance are hot topics right now and with…
MSKMag OutLoudBarking at Our Reflection - Editorial - MSKMag Issue 28
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com I took a phone call from a friend this month. She’s been called up for HCPC…
MSKMag OutLoudChewy And Jim - Two Tier MSK?
Chewy and Jim are back and so is the theme tune. Now I am not usually one to call out Chewy’s mum for bias but apparently she is in a grump about the lyrics…
MSKMag OutLoudAdvanced practice without the title: The reality of the FCP role
Over the past decade few developments have reshaped UK musculoskeletal (MSK) care as profoundly as the rise of First Contact Practitioners (FCPs) in primary…
MSKMag OutLoudContinence Considerations
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Urinary incontinence is often seen as something that belongs firmly in the…
MSKMag OutLoudThe business and life lessons learned from MSK industry titans!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com I didn’t set out to write a book. I set out to understand people. Through…
MSKMag OutLoudPAIn Care in 2050: what might it look like?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Imagine we can teleport to 2050 and witness a pain clinic visit. Before the…
MSKMag OutLoudFootball Has a Hamstring Problem
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mskmag.substack.com Who was the first player you pictured when you read the title? I would bet…