True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast

Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Roger St. Onge, a residency and fellowship trained physical therapist who now coaches clinicians on how to think through an evaluation rather than how to collect more tools.
 
The conversation opens on patterns. Roger makes the case that most of the diagnostic picture comes from the subjective, that the objective exam needs at least two differentials to eliminate, and that testing should be built to prove you wrong instead of confirming what you already believe. He walks through the MAPs he listens for: the movements, activities, positions, and situations that fill a patient's day.
 
From there he treats the nervous system as a set of vital signs rather than a screen. Reflexes, myotomal strength, and neural tension sensitivity show what symptoms cannot, and Roger explains how he grades neurological fatigability, why he reads pain on a 24-hour clock, and how an athlete a year past ACL surgery finally passed return to sport testing once his lumbar spine was addressed.
 
If you evaluate orthopedic or athletic patients and want a system instead of more knowledge, tune in.
 
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Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Mike Stella, an athletic trainer and the founder of The Movement Underground in New York. Mike traces his path from Division I training rooms to building a multidisciplinary practice for athletes and active adults.
They unpack the economics behind professional sports medicine: why experienced head clinicians spend less time treating, why assistants carry so much day-to-day care, and why top athletes often build their own outside teams. Mike also explains what physical therapists misunderstand about athletic trainers, from the context they gain by seeing athletes every day to the liability and hierarchy behind gatekeeping.
The conversation then shifts to Growth Engine, Mike's framework for clinicians learning storytelling, systems, hiring, and value communication without abandoning evidence or ethics. He also shares his vision for movement-led primary care, where good generalists coordinate the system, specialists enter when needed, and resistance training becomes part of long-term self-preservation.
If you work in sports medicine, run a clinic, or want better collaboration across credentials, tune in.
 
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Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. This episode flips the format: Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt takes the guest seat, fielding questions from Jared Aaron of Coherent Healthcare, whose “Business of a Clinic” podcast covers the operational side of running healthcare practices.
 
The conversation walks through the full scaling story: growing True Sports from a single rented room to 19 clinics and 80 physical therapists, with two more locations on the way, building career ladders for sports PTs, hiring for growth mindset and coachability over credentials, and bringing in COO Dr. Tim Stone to introduce the concept of scale.
 
Yoni tells the origin story in full, from a $400-a-month room in the back of a repurposed church to the lacrosse families who drove into Baltimore City during a difficult stretch to keep seeing him. He also draws the distinction True Sports now builds its leadership programming around: responsibility means checking boxes, accountability means seeing tasks through to completion. 
 
If you own a clinic, are thinking about opening one, or want to see how the business side of sports physical therapy actually runs, this episode is for you. Tune in.
 
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Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Gregory DiFelice, an orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery who has spent close to 20 years repairing ACLs rather than replacing them.
 
He lays out Preservation First, his algorithm for sorting ACL tears by tear type and tissue quality, and the four lanes it runs through: repair, BEAR, augmentation, and reconstruction as a last resort. He also explains why the field abandoned repair decades ago, what the 1993 paper that buried it actually said, and why he thinks the current direction of ACL surgery is big, bigger, and biggest.
 
The second half is built for sports PTs. Dr. DiFelice drains every patient's knee at the first visit, shares the data his group presented on what that does to range of motion and quad firing within 10 minutes, and explains why he moved his protocols off the calendar and onto milestones. He is also candid about the cohort where his own published failure rate was high and what he changed because of it.
 
If you rehab ACLs, this conversation will change what you think you are treating. Tune in.
 
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Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Kevin Johnson, the trainer behind Team Ascension in Virginia, whose client list runs from middle school athletes to All-Pro NFL talent.
 
Kevin's path into the profession is unlike any guest we have had on. He walks through the two and a half years he spent incarcerated, where a thousand push-ups a day and a deck of cards turned into a training system and a following of inmates who wanted in. That became the blueprint for everything he built afterward.
 
The conversation gets into how he landed his first pro client in a Chuck E. Cheese, why he told that athlete no when he showed up late, and how holding that line earned the respect that built the business. Kevin and Yoni compare notes on setting a precedent with your first big-name client, the gratitude mindset behind training someone in a cave with two rocks, and how Kevin assesses force absorption before he ever lets an athlete chase speed.
 
If you are a clinician, coach, or trainer trying to build something real, this one is worth your time. Tune in.
 
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Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Justin Farnsworth, founder of Rebuilt Strength in Rochester, New York, a physical therapist who spent over a decade coaching in the fitness industry before PT school.
 
Justin makes the case that rehab is training, and that most clinicians were never taught to program. They get into the characteristics rehab tends to skip: power, which lives at 3 to 5 reps rather than 3 sets of 10, strength, which requires real strain and not just fatigue, and hypertrophy, which comes down to mechanical tension and proximity to failure. He also rethinks activation, breaking down yielding and overcoming isometrics and where potentiation belongs in a session.
 
The conversation covers his pre-fatigue hack for return to sport testing, built with a leg press, a tape measure, and his eyes rather than a $10,000 machine. It closes on the business of physical therapy, and why understanding math is not the opposite of altruism but the thing that keeps the lights on.
 
If you are a clinician, coach, or new grad who wants a bigger toolbox, this one is full of gold. Tune in.
 
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Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Vikash Sharma, DPT, OCS, COMT, CFSC, founder of Perfect Stride Physical Therapy in Manhattan, a board-certified orthopedic clinician, certified strength coach, and run coach who has spent over a decade building an out-of-network practice niched entirely around runners.
 
They dig into the patient population that intimidates so many clinicians: the high-level marathoner who feels great until mile 23. Vikash explains why his first question is almost always about nutrition and fueling, not the tissue, and how a training block can expose a problem that was there all along.
 
The conversation also covers what "tendons love load" actually means in practice, from desensitizing an acute Achilles to progressing through heavy isometrics, eccentrics, plyometrics, and back to running. They get into strength programming across all three planes of motion, and the hard-won business lesson of working on the practice instead of in it.
 
If you treat runners, coach them, or are building a clinic of your own, this one is full of gold. Tune in.
 
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Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down for the third time with Jack Rasmussen, founder of Caddix Cleats, the company behind the Smart Studs that move with the athlete and decrease force up the kinetic chain.
 
Jack traces the whole arc: from making beds as a housekeeper and watching a player go down on an open field, to building a cleat now worn by nearly 100 NFL players, Team USA Lacrosse, and Olympic athletes. He and Yoni dig into the decisions PTs face too, including why he turned down $80 million in funding and a $20 million buyout on gut feeling alone.
 
It also covers the science a clinician can stand behind: the Rush University testing that showed reduced peak force at the ankle, knee, and hip, plus reduced hip adduction and knee valgus, the first step of an ACL tear. Jack is careful about that claim, and the precision is the point. They also get into why athletes are breaking down earlier than ever.
 
If you are a sports PT, a clinic owner weighing your next big decision, or building something from scratch, this one carries lessons on both the business and the biomechanics. Tune in.
 
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Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Marc Pietropaoli, MD, orthopedic surgeon out of Syracuse, NY, founder of Victory in Motion, and author of Repair Not Replace: Natural Joint Relief Without Surgery or Pills.
 
Dr. P walks through the regenerative medicine philosophy he built after training under Dr. James Andrews and Kevin Wilk: treat the body as something that heals itself, and only operate when nothing else will work. They get into the PRP literature, why dose matters more than almost any other variable, the difference between leukocyte-rich and leukocyte-poor preparations, and the case for treating the knee as an organ instead of injecting only intra-articularly.
 
The conversation also covers Dr. Hernigot's landmark bone marrow study (82% of severely arthritic knees never needed replacement at 15-year follow-up), how the Victory Method's Clarity Day combines physical exam, ultrasound, MRI, and a full hour with V Motion Fit, and the long-game mission to eliminate knee replacements by 2043 through prevention.
 
If you are a sports PT working alongside orthopedic referrals or fielding patient questions about PRP, biologics, and surgical alternatives, this one will sharpen how you vet providers and how you talk about regenerative care. Tune in.
 
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Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Odell Miller, former NFL athlete, businessman turned physical therapist, and owner of Off the Bench Physical Therapy.
 
Odell unpacks the cash versus in-network debate, why he chose a premium cash model from day one, and how he hit $51K months as a new grad inside six months. They get into the art of the handoff (how to position a clinic so it is not built around the founder), Gary Vee's "hire fast, fire faster" approach, and what to actually look for in an interview beyond the rehearsed answers.
 
The conversation also dives into Myron Golden's implementation ladder (implementation, management, communication, imagination) and why staying small and treating every patient yourself is doing the world a disservice. Odell shares his content philosophy (documentation over creation), how he lives in his van to reinvest cash into the business, the mentorship lens he uses to pick coaches, and why building leaders beats managing people.
 
If you are a PT student, new grad, or clinic owner thinking about scale, this one will fire you up. Tune in.
 
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