True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast

What actually makes someone a great coach?
Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with world renowned strength coach Luka Hocevar to talk about why technical knowledge alone is not enough. Luka explains why some of the smartest coaches struggle to connect with clients, why emotional skills often matter more than another certification, and what makes people want to keep coming back.
They get into the “51 percenter” idea, why great coaches are storytellers, how to coach two completely different people in the same session, and the three things every client should feel when they walk out the door.
Luka also shares how coaches actually get better, why you cannot think your way to excellence, and why the words a clinician uses can change how a patient experiences pain.
If you coach athletes, treat patients, or lead other clinicians, this episode will change how you think about what great coaching really is.
 
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Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with sports PT and strength coach Kyle Covey to talk about what actually moves ACL rehab forward.
Kyle breaks down why peak quad strength is not enough, why rate of force development matters when injury happens in a fraction of a second, and why a 90% limb symmetry index can still hide a weak athlete. They also get into torque-to-body-weight, how Kyle structures quad-focused ACL sessions, and how to keep improving as a clinician when burnout makes reading and learning harder.
If you treat ACLs, this one will change how you think about strength, testing, and return to sport.
 
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Connor Clayton tore the same ACL four times.
The part that should make every sports PT uncomfortable: he passed return-to-sport testing with 100% limb symmetry before one of those retears.
Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Connor, founder of @theKneehaber, to unpack what his ACL rehabs actually looked like, what was missing, and why being symmetrical does not necessarily mean an athlete is strong enough to return to sport.
They get into the problem with using the uninvolved leg as the standard, what progressive strength training should look like after ACL reconstruction, where rehab may be ending too early, and who actually owns the outcome when an athlete gets cleared but is not truly ready.
Connor also explains why he now trains very differently, what he has taken from the knees-over-toes approach, and how he continues to ski, lift and train today despite living without an ACL.
If you treat ACLs, this conversation should make you reconsider what “ready” actually means.
 
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Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast. This week, Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Chris Hughen, head coach at E3 Rehab and host of The E3 Rehab Podcast..
They get into what actually matters in an initial eval, why 40 special tests usually do not help, how much of the visit should be spent just talking to the patient, and why communication may be one of the most important skills PT school barely teaches.
Chris also gets into overprescribing exercise, natural history, passive treatments, manual therapy, peptides, and why sometimes saying “I’m not sure” builds more trust than pretending to have every answer.
A practical conversation about simplifying rehab and becoming a better clinician.
 
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Welcome to the True Sports Physical Therapy Podcast.
Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt sits down with Dr. Jamie Quinto, a physical therapist in the Bethesda clinic who has become one of the most requested therapists in the practice about a year into her career.
Yoni wanted to know how she got good this fast. Her answer is that she stopped trying to have every answer.
She builds goals with a patient in the first session and measures each visit against them. It is also how she handles the question every clinician gets asked: how long is this going to take?
She gives a range and a checkpoint instead of a date she cannot keep. They get into what PT school leaves out. Talking to referring surgeons is the skill Jamie says she is still working on, and she is blunt about what fails: a note reporting degrees of flexion and nothing else. The back half is basketball.
A point guard and a center can walk in with the same Achilles tendinopathy and still need different loading. If you are a new grad, you treat court athletes, or you want referral relationships that hold up, this one is worth your time. #TrueSportsPT #JamieQuinto #BasketballRehab
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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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