Associate professor and Sports medicine physician @ Erasmus MC University Medical Centre and Club doctor @ Football club Excelsior Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Great research from Tjerk Visser & colleagues has given us normative values for calf testing that go beyond reps alone!
Assessing peak height, total work & total displacement can provide valuable insight into calf function.
Visser et al. (2025) 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
It's recommended that we load at ≥70% of 1 Rep Max during rehab but what does this translate to in terms of reps to fatigue? Nuzzo et al. (2024) suggests 70% of 1RM is ~15RM which is a good place to start with loading & can be progressed towards 6RM (& heavier) as symptoms allow
🚨New publication ➡️ @BJSM_BMJ
Exercise parameters to consider for Achilles tendinopathy: a modified Delphi study with international experts.
Proud to share this publication with the world's leading experts in Achilles tendinopathy rehabilitation
👉 bjsm.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf/bj…
Great new research from Tjerk Visser & colleagues has given us normative values for calf testing that go beyond reps alone!
Assessing peak height, total work & total displacement can provide valuable insight into calf function.
Visser et al. (2025) 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Great new research from Tjerk Visser & colleagues has given us normative values for calf testing that go beyond reps alone!
Assessing peak height, total work & total displacement can provide valuable insight into calf function.
Visser et al. (2025) 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Just published on AJSM! Long-term Prognosis of Athletes With Patellar Tendinopathy Receiving Physical Therapy: Patient-Reported Outcomes at 5-Year Follow-up. @rj_devos@aossmjournalsjournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Just published on AJSM! Long-term Prognosis of Athletes With Patellar Tendinopathy Receiving Physical Therapy: Patient-Reported Outcomes at 5-Year Follow-up. @rj_devos@aossmjournalsjournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
📣 NEW Delphi consensus study on Achilles Tendinopathy 🔥
Diagnostic domains, differential diagnosis and conditions requiring further medical attention that are considered important in the assessment for Achilles tendinopathy 📄
READ 👉 bit.ly/4iqHnR4
Our article is one of the top viewed articles (top 10%) in Physiotherapy Research International: "Devices to measure calf raise test outcomes: A narrative review". Open Access, so read it now if you have not already :) with @XanneFernandezonlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
📣 NEW Delphi consensus study on Achilles Tendinopathy 🔥
Diagnostic domains, differential diagnosis and conditions requiring further medical attention that are considered important in the assessment for Achilles tendinopathy 📄
READ 👉 bit.ly/4iqHnR4
Our new BJSM publication 🆕 🦶
We achieved consensus for the key diagnostic domains and conditions you should consider when assessing Achilles tendinopathy.
bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2…
Figure 1 summarises the recommended diagnostic process
A huge thank you to all 50 authors 👏
Check out this great work let by Tjerk,
Normative values for calf muscle strength-endurance in the general population assessed with the Calf Raise Application: A large international cross-sectional study - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/ar…authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…