The Foot and Ankle Podcast - Injury Prevention with Dr Travis Pollen

Injury Prevention with Dr Travis Pollen

08/27/23 • 84 min

Alex is joined by Travis to discuss the murky world of injury prevention literature and how we can help our patients avoid future injury.

About Travis:

Dr Travis Pollen, PhD, is a personal trainer, author, and Assistant Professor of Exercise Science. Over his 10-year personal training career, he’s trained professional athletes, senior citizens, and everyone in between. He’s on a mission to bridge the gap between rehabilitation and performance. In addition to his doctorate in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Travis has a master’s degree in Biomechanics and Movement Science. He’s previously held two American records in Paralympic swimming. When he’s not engaging in scholarly or athletic pursuits, he can be found listening to indie folk music and eating sushi, preferably at the same time. He currently resides in Philadelphia with his fiancée and their furry friends.

Alex is joined by Travis to discuss the murky world of injury prevention literature and how we can help our patients avoid future injury.

About Travis:

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Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Podiatry from the University of South Australia (2006) and is a certified Sports Podiatrist (APodA 2017). He has practiced for 15 years in the field of Sports Podiatry with a primary emphasis on reducing running related injury risk via education on training, recovery, strength & conditioning, biomechanics, neuromuscular re-education and footwear selection.

Michael has competed in athletics for over 2 decades, and now continues to work in athletics via coaching middle-long distance runners (Level II advanced MD/LD coach - Athletics Australia) at the Adelaide University Athletics Club and head coach of the Adelaide Milers Crew. He also makes time to train and compete himself both on the track & road running events.

More recently he has begun part-time research where the focus is looking at the training characteristics of elite and recreational runners and the association with performance and sustainability, along with investigating training pace/critical pace and track running performance prediction.

Michael is a co-host of the monthly Shoe Geeks Podcast via the Inside Running Podcast with fellow runners/shoe geeks Julian Spence (The Running Company - Geelong) & Thomas Do Canto (Pinnacle Sports Podiatry).