GRAM REVIEW: Back to the Gram! USA edition

Back to the Gram

The U.S.A.

by Emma Lattey

This month I review my top five brief picks of American sports physio/medicine influencers on Instagram. This has not been an easy piece to prepare for as there are so many American “influencers” out there in the sports medicine space. Here are five of my favourites which have been useful to help me introduce new rehabilitation exercises, can provide access to recent papers, and help to further educate my patients on latest trends and research from the other side of the world.

• rehabscience

Dr Tom Walters is based in southern California and his posts address a wide variety of physical therapy and training topics. Tom demonstrates most of the exercises himself in a really slick manner, and he also does a great job of curating content from others in the field.

• evidencebasedmvmt

What I enjoy the most about this instagram handle is the catchy, straight to the point graphics and messaging based on recent evidence-based research. Their posts are almost daily and cover many aspects of sports medicine life, with research “reviews” and research “rapid fire” providing a quick and easy to understand evaluation of recent papers.

The prehab guys are three doctors of physical therapy who specialise in strength and conditioning. The content here is effective and easy to understand with each of the “guys” taking turns to demonstrate exercises. They identify common flaws that most people make in the gym and give simple, easy to follow solutions with corrective exercises and appropriate progressions and regressions.

• theprehabguys

• dr.caleb.burgess

Dr Caleb Burgess is a doctor of physical therapy who specializes in strength and conditioning. His Instagram account gives helpful tools and strategies to deal with common injuries. Caleb demonstrates the exercises mostly himself and with helpful graphics and simple instructions on screen for each exercise.

• mariespano

Marie Spano is a sports dietician with a both nutrition and exercise sports science degrees. She consults with professional, recreational, and collegiate athletes and her posts are catchy and to the point – with good evidence to back it up. Marie doesn’t has as many followers as the others but the content is top quality and is useful to keep up with the current updates in sports nutrition and how it affects performance.

• Finally….. for a bit of light-hearted physio related insta love try physiogram...