CPD Portfolio Evidence
May 2026
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- DISADVANTAGE STARTS EARLY: Oral health challenges in English academy footballers
- ICRS-FIFA-Aspetar consensus on the management of knee cartilage injuries in football players: part 2 – appropriateness of specific surgical procedures to address articular cartilage lesions in different clinical scenarios using the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method
- INTEGRATING YOGA INTO CONTEMPORARY FOOTBALL TRAINING
- SHOOTING WIDE? OR STRAINING MUSCLES? THEN OPEN WIDE
- Novel purity, health and performance Pure Ionic Water promotes anti-oxidative properties to support performance of professional athletes
- MEDICAL CARE IN INTERNATIONAL Football: Insights, challenges & the road ahead
April 2026
- Warm-up is not a workout: a principles-based critique of continued efforts to use warm-up programmes for ACL injury prevention
- The use of bisphosphonates in the management of pubic overload in an english premier league footballer – A case report
- “MY 10-MONTH INTERVIEW”: UNPAID labour for performance and medical staff in men’s professional football
- PODCAST – Beyond corticosteroids: The growing role of hyaluronic acid in joint health of a footballer
- MPA Diploma – FREE access to all members!
FEBRUARY 2026
- The Connection Edge – How psychological safety & belonging can unlock performance, engagement & player availability in football
- A practical approach to the skeletal muscle morphology and its importance in sports-related skeletal muscle injuries
- PODCAST – Advancing Hamstring Assessment: “Where biomechanics meets performance”
JANUARY 2026
DECEMBER 2025
NOVEMBER 2025
- How manual therapy can form part of a holistic management approach
- Applying the principles of risk management in male professional football: a feasibility study, introducing the Aspetar sports injury and illness risk management tool
- Establishing team match physical performance reference values at UEFA EURO 2024 Germany
- PODCAST – Football vs Olympic Sport – What’s the Difference for a Physio?
OCTOBER 2025
- PODCAST: Physically developing children the Arsenal way
- Non-operative treatment of anterior cruciate ligament injuries: two-thirds avoid surgery at 2-year follow-up in a nationwide cohort
- Global cardiac screening practices among youth and adult football players: the FIFA cardiac screening survey
- Quantification of heading in adult football: a systematic review and evidence synthesis
- Pectoral major ruptures in professional football
SEPTEMBER 2025
- PODCAST – Facial Fractures in Football
- FOOTBALL MEDICINE & PERFORMANCE – ISSUE 49 – OUT NOW!
In this Issue:
Pectoral Major Ruptures in Professional Football – Tom Whittamore
Gaps & Our Knowledge: High-Grade Hamstring Rehabilitation in Elite Football – Dr. Fearghal Kerin
Plus more…
AUGUST 2025
JULY 2025
JUNE 2025
MAY 2025
- Prescribing trends & practices in professional football
- VIDEO PRESENTATION: Holistic player development pathway
- Sprint running mechanics are associated with hamstring strain injury: a 6-month prospective cohort study of 126 elite male footballers
- Recommendations for cardiac screening and emergency action planning in youth football: a FIFA consensus statement
- PODCAST – The evolution of football
APRIL 2025
- From Medial Hamstring Rupture to Return in Sub 50 Days; Is surgical repair a waste of time?
- VIDEO PODCAST: Use and implementation of development programmes within staff’s pathway
- Disadvantage starts early: academy football has high levels of oral disease
- PODCAST – Medical Governance
- ‘Setting the Benchmark’ (Part 5): The contextual and tactical factors that influenced the physical match demands at the FIFA men’s and women’s world cups
MARCH 2025
FEBRUARY 2025
- PODCAST – Back in the Game – Navigating football after pregnancy
- “Check engine light” Optimising individualised high-speed running zones in football. Are we measuring what we think?
- **OPEN ACCESS** Response to: The ‘nervy’ business of T-junction hamstring injuries
- PLAY BALL (OR DON’T): TOWARDS A MORE VALID MEASURE OF PHYSICAL INTENSITY DURING MATCH PLAY
- PODCAST – How to become a team doctor
JANUARY 2025
- Integrating force plate technology: Performance optimisation and rehabilitation
- HAMSTRING INJURIES: WHAT ROLE DOES THE LUMBAR SPINE AND PELVIS PLAY?
- PODCAST – Cracking the code: an approach to managing the problem hamstring
- VIDEO PODCAST – UNDERSTANDING THE TEAM AROUND YOU, BUILDING WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
DECEMBER 2024
- The Effects of a 6-Week Plyometric and Sprint Interval Training Intervention on Soccer Player’s Physical Performance
- Maximising bone adaptation & reducing risk of BSI in youth development footballers via exercise & nutrition
- Pubic apophysitis – an important cause of groin pain in young athletes
- Back in the game: Navigating football after pregnancy
- PODCAST – Human Factors: A journey in improving care
NOVEMBER 2024
- Ankle Syndesmosis Management: Grade 2B, or not 2B, that is the question!
- Energy Stacking
- Machine learning approaches to injury risk prediction in sport: a scoping review with evidence synthesis
- The Effects of a 6-Week Plyometric and Sprint Interval Training Intervention on Soccer Player’s Physical Performance
- PODCAST – Football and Diabetes
OCTOBER 2024
- LATEST EDITION RELEASED ‘football medicine & performance’ – Issue 47
- Enhancing Sports Injury Risk Assessment in Soccer Through Machine Learning and Training Load Analysis
- PODCAST – Improving health and performance outcomes in footballers using 3D muscle analysis
- Injury-inciting circumstances of sudden-onset hamstring injuries: video analyses of 63 match injuries in male professional football players in the Qatar Stars League (2013–2020)
SEPTEMBER 2024
- Efficacy of exercise interventions on prevention of sport-related concussion and related outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- PODCAST – Surgical Management of Hamstring Injuries
- The Effects of a 6-Week Plyometric and Sprint Interval Training Intervention on Soccer Player’s Physical Performance
AUGUST 2024
- How Does Altering the Volume-Load of Plyometric Exercises Affect the Inflammatory Response, Oxidative Stress, and Muscle Damage in Male Soccer Players?
- PODCAST – From the NBA to the premier league: The importance of a practical biomechanical assessment in injured athletes
- Pubic apophysitis – an important cause of groin pain in young athletes
JULY 2024
- Surface electromyography implementation in football players rehabilitation after lower limb surgery
- Baseline clinical and MRI risk factors for hamstring reinjury showing the value of performing baseline MRI and delaying return to play: a multicentre, prospective cohort of 330 acute hamstring injuries
- PODCAST – How to integrate MSK ultrasound into your practice
JUNE 2024
- The role of the physiotherapist in Serie A: Is rehabilitation for elite athletes always as simple as it appears?
- Thermography: A game-changer for injury prevention & performance in football
- Coping with the heat while playing football: Challenges and potential solutions
- Don’t forget to look up high! Assessment of ankle syndesmosis injuries
- How to Thrive with a little help from your friends