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Ryan Collins

Ryan Collins

Physical therapist (PT, MSPT) at Memorial Hermann's sports medicine and rehabilitation program in Houston, TX, and repeat guest on the Sports Medicine Broadcast podcast.

Sep 22, 2026

0:54
Can you give me a little bit more, a little more deep dive of the talk that you just had here at the Sports Medicine Update?
1:00
Sure.
1:01
Thanks for having me.
1:02
So what I talked about today was kind of a topic that I think a lot of trainers and therapists probably think about is when you have an athlete come in and they've been shut down from throwing their softball, their baseball, or even volleyball and tennis, any sort of overhead sport.
1:22
Yeah.
1:23
They have, you know, potentially six weeks to three to five months, depending on if it was a big injury or surgery or whatever, where they can't play, right? They can't participate in their sport.
1:31
And so the question is, all right, if we can't play and participate, are we going to just sit there and lose those skills that we developed on the field, right? You have this high performing athlete, right? Now they have to sit down.

10 MINS LATER

11:53
So if you have an athlete that's

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