ClinicalAthlete Podcast

On this episode we have the whole Executive Clinical Athlete Provider Mentor Team — Quinn Henoch, Zak Gabor, Steph Allen, and Steph Mundt. We started as the 4 mentors in the Clinical Athlete Provider Certification Program exactly two years ago in March of 2024. Our mentor team has now grown to 8 and counting, but there’s been a ton of growth in many other aspects over the last 2 years. So, we thought it’d be a great opportunity to get the 4 of us on the show for the first time together, and reflect on the last two years.  There’s a lot of great nuggets to take away from this about working with a team and continuing your professional development within leadership positions.  We hope you enjoy! Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @stephallen.dpt @stephmundt.dpt @clinicalathlete @zakgabor.dpt @quinn.henochdpt

On this episode Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor talk about a really important topic — the best Ninendo 64 games of all time. We actually do talk about that, but also, we talk about timelines in rehab and communication with our athletes around forecasting and prediction of how rehab should go, how long it will take — all of the things that give us anxiety but that we address on a regular basis in our practice. What makes up our timeline predictions? And what happens if the original timelines that we communicated don’t match up with how the athlete’s rehab is actually going? We dig into all of that and more. We hope you enjoy! Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this episode we welcome an awesome guest — The Plyo guy himself and creator of Plusplyos Matt McInnes Watson. Matt is an absolute go-to resource for anything and everything regarding plyometrics, and has had a big influence on us and how we view these things within the Clinical Athlete community.  What the heck does “plyometric” even mean? How can we break down the barriers to entry for coaching, programming, and performing these movements? We cover it all with Matt, this was an absolute banger. We hope you enjoy! Connect with Matt: @mcinneswatson @plusplyos https://www.plusplyos.com/  Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

Ben Cormack, clinician and educator who created Cor-Kinetic, breaks down a dry forest analogy for understanding pain risk. He explores how stress, inflammation, and behavior interact to ignite pain. Short takes cover radiculopathy, exercise as a systemic tool, boosting self‑efficacy, and practical steps to raise recovery and resilience.

It’s a Clinical Athlete Diary vibe. When’s the last time you re-read a book or retook a course, instead of buying a new one? Hmm… Also, you ever struggle with tracking your athlete’s symptoms in rehab? Or find it to be a slippery slope to have a goal be for them to have no more pain flare ups? Me too. Let’s talk about it all. Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

Ever found yourself getting stuck in paralysis by analysis with your exercise prescription?  Ugh.. amateur.. Just kidding! We’ve all felt it. You’re in luck —  on this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor dig into why that may happen and some practical approaches to getting past it and providing some baller programs to our athletes.  Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor welcome a special guest onto the show – Matt Kuzdub.  Matt is a tennis coach and a tennis strength & conditioning coach – and I’ll even frame that differently, that’s he’s just an awesome sport and S&C coach and the sport and athletes that he works with happen to be tennis players. He’s also Zak’s tennis and S&C coach and Matt is currently finishing up going through the Clinical Athlete Provider certification — which has been awesome for all of us because he’s already such a wealth of knowledge. So, we’re really excited to share this conversion with you — we discussed what shaped Matt’s current training philosophy, how he balances needing to help his athletes develop multiple qualities simultaneously in a sport without much of an off season, some myth busting and misconceptions in training tennis athletes, and much more.  It was an awesome conversation. We hope you enjoy Connect with Matt: @mattspoint_tennis www.mattspoint.com matt@mattspoint.com Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor attempt to bust down the unnecessary mystique of exercise prescription. Have you ever felt like a topic is just out of reach or that you just don’t feel comfortable discussing or implementing with your athletes? Whether it be energy system development, plyometrics, change of direction – well, improving your confidence with any topic doesn’t have to be so daunting and intimidating – and hopefully after this episode you have some actionable takeaway to be able to start tackling your exrx bugaboos in a productive and fun way. We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community Follow us on IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, we welcome a very special guest Asaf Klaf Weisman. Asaf is a clinician and a researcher, who for the better part of the last decade has really challenged some of the conventional wisdom around contemporary pain science, pain neuroscience education, and the biopsychosocial model as a whole. For this convo, we use the widely accepted aphorism of “Nociception is neither necessary nor sufficient for pain” as an example to anchor to what might be, at best, a claim formed on shaky evidence and at worst, just plain wrong, misleading, and keeping the field from moving forward. Zak leads this interview, and we unpack many layers. It’s a dense show, so make sure you eat something, buckle in and prepare for some mind melt in the best way. The Brain Gainz come off the back end of that. We hope you enjoy! Connect with Asaf: Twitter & IG: @asafklaf FB: Asaf Klaf Weisman Google Scholar ResearchGate Painlosophy Blog *All of the papers that we referenced can be found above in Asaf’s Google Scholar and Researchgate links! Connect with Clinical Athlete: Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community On IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt

On this show, Quinn Henoch and Zak Gabor welcome two special guests onto the show – Josh D’Angelo and Rich Ortiz of MovementX Josh is a co-founder of MovementX, which is a company that is providing Physical Therapists with unique employment opportunities that help them both scratch the entrepreneurial itch, but also provide stability within an established and trusted brand. It was really cool to hear Josh tell the founding story and go into what makes MovementX such a unique company to work for, and in turn, to bringing great care to their clientele. And Rich Ortiz is one of those bright shining star Physical Therapists who’s crushing it within the MovementX umbrella, so it was cool to get that perspective as well – and Rich also recently completed the clinical Athlete provider certification, so he’s a great example of someone who is really trying to maximize their professional development gainz.  We go into a ton more – what can rehab professionals do to connect with their communities and educate them on what value they bring to the table, what can new grads do, or anybody looking for growth really, to find those new opportunities, and a ton more. It really was a great conversation. We hope you enjoy! Clinical Athlete Provider Cert Application Free Clinical Athlete Facebook Community Follow the Movement X crew: https://movement-x.com/ @movementxinc josh@movement-x.com rich.ortiz@movement-x.com  Follow Clinical Athlete on IG: @clinicalathlete @quinn.henochdpt @zakgabor.dpt