Podcast: Ebonie Rio on Tendon Pain

Ebonie Rio is a world-class expert on tendon pain. She completed a PhD and is a post-doc researcher at La Trobe University. Her research has won numerous awards. She's also a sports physiotherapist with significant experience treating professional ballet dancers, athletes and Olympic athletes.

In this episode we talked about how tendons adapt to exercise, how they can degenerate with overuse, why degeneration doesn’t always lead to pain, peripheral versus central factors in tendon pain, and how to treat painful tendons with exercise.

Ebonie is just incredibly knowledgeable on this subject so give it a listen.

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