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Enjoy this sneak peak of Lee and Matt discussing the relevance of knee valgus in injury risk.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the framework for late stage rehab and return to sport.
- Learn how to train and improve neuromuscular explosiveness and restore movement quality.
- Learn the pillars of on-field rehab and how to restore sport-specific load.
- Understand how to conduct RTS testing, who it is appropriate for and when to do it.
Dr Lee Herrington
PhD | MSc | MSCP | CSCS
Lee is a Physiotherapist, Senior Lecturer in Sports Rehabilitation at Salford University and programme leader for the MSc Sports Injury Rehabilitation course. He is also the athlete health lead with the United Kingdom Sports Institute, leading on issues related to lower limb injury rehabilitation across all the Olympic & Paralympic sports, along with being responsible for musculoskeletal injury management innovation. He also acts a consultant physiotherapist to English Premiership and Championship Football clubs and has worked as part of Team GB medical team at London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Lee has previously worked with British Swimming, Great Britain Basketball team, Wigan Warriors and Great Britain Rugby League teams along with England Table Tennis and Netball.
Lee is the lead clinical researcher in the Knee Biomechanics and Injury research programme at Salford University. His specific research interests are anterior knee pain and rehabilitation following knee surgery (principally ACLR), has published over 250 peer reviewed papers. Lee is the editor in chief of Physical Therapy in Sport.
Dr Matthew Buckthorpe
PhD | MSc | BSc
Matt is a Senior Lecturer in Physiology and Strength and Conditioning Science who has published more than 35 peer-reviewed research papers. Matt joined St Marys in 2020, following his PhD and having spent nearly 10 years working in the industry.
Following his PhD, Matt joined Isokinetic Medical Group (FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence), initially as an injury rehabilitation and reconditioning specialist and then as an Education, Research and Service Innovation Consultant. Matt also consulted with Southampton FC for a number of years during this position.
