Jordan Rutherford part 2 – Working with professional golfers for performance and injury management.

Physio Foundations

Jordan Rutherford is a physiotherapist with the Professional Golf Association of Australasia and the director of Launch Health in Melbourne, Australia. In part 2 of our conversation we talked about working with professional golfers for performance and injury management and using objective measures such as handheld dynamometers.

In this episode:

• 0:00 About this episode
• 1:51 What it’s like being a physiotherapist working in professional golf and how Jordan got started
• 4:40 The hard yards in professional golf
• 6:19 Millimetres and degrees is the difference between the fairway and the trees
• 7:25 What injuries do golfers get?
• 9:00 What preparation do golfers do before they start hitting?
• 9:56 How do you avoid coaching when you play golf yourself?
• 11:50 Could you assess somebody and predict their most likely injuries and performance?
• 14:00 Strength and conditioning for performance in golf – objective measures for what is important for performance
• 16:30 Collecting data and doing research in your clinic
• 19:50 Handheld dynamometers, force plates and other objective measures Jordan uses in the clinic.
• 24:17 How you set up your handheld dynamometer testing and your instructions will affect the quality of your measurement
• 27:50 When to use force, torque or body-weight normalised torque
• 29:59 Final thoughts? Develop your own way of helping people and find the people you can help

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