Blood Flow Restriction: Breaking It All Down With Johnny Owens

Youth Soccer, the World Cup, and America's Pay-to-Play Problem 6 to 8 Weeks: Perspectives in Sports Medicine Runtime:~23 minutes Episode Summary With the World Cup underway, the hosts ask a controversial question: why isn't the US better at men's soccer, given a talent pool that dwarfs countrie…

Episode Overview With Dr. Drew Lansdown away (and reportedly playing golf in Scotland), Brian and Nirav dive deep into the sports medicine landscape of the FIFA World Cup 2026. The episode covers the unique injury patterns in soccer, what surgeons and physicians need to understand about treating e…

Episode Summary With sub-internship (away rotation) season approaching, the hosts pull back the curtain on what orthopaedic faculty and residents are actually evaluating when a visiting medical student rotates through their program — and how to make the most of a high-stakes, high-anxiety few week…

[00:00] Introduction — what's new in rotator cuff research [00:39] Breaking down the new JAMA Internal Medicine paper: a Finnish population-based study of 600+ patients (ages 40–75) who received bilateral shoulder MRIs [01:00] Key finding: imaging findings were nearly identical between asymptomat…