Enda King: Decoding Anterior Knee Pain, Elite Rehab And The “20% Outliers” [Ep.01]

On to you.

So you wear lots of different hats from a research standpoint to a clinical, to a clinician, practitioner, and then a big leadership roles in lots of different ways.

And this is where I really admire.

And we also from Curtin have a common component.

to program development.

I love and miss some of that component of what I used to do kind of before the MBA with, like I said, a youth back pain program and, and finding different creative ways.

And so I don't know how many people know that side of you.

So can you share a little bit about different project passion projects you have? And, and kind of, yeah, share a little bit of that component of your life.

Yeah, I think, I mean, if you take my most recent post here in Aspetar as head of performance and development, a lot of that is around trying to work with our team.

We've almost 100 practitioners in the rehab team in Doha here.

And it's not about, you know, the right way, the wrong way or my way.

It's about what's our way.

And, you know, almost everyone that's in Aspatar has come here because it has a reputation of being one of the best places in the world.

And they're coming because they want to be part of that and they want to contribute to it and they want to learn from it.

So, you know, having that common goal before you start out in that you know, we want to be delivering the highest level of care in groin, in hamstring, in patellofemoral or whatever else.

And that's your North Star.

And so, you know, immediately you get everyone's buy-in to what that direction is.

And the second part then is, and where I'm particularly interested in, is, you know, the multiple components that can contribute to that, whether it's orthopedic or sports medicine or biomechanic or S&C or from a rehabilitation point of view.

And As I said, part of the beauty of having a high volume of a particular type of injury is that there are outliers that either you don't recognise or maybe a member of your team don't recognise because they haven't come across it before.

So you do what you do, it works until it doesn't work.

And so when we're building our programmes, we're building them and our assessments, we're building them for the 20% because if they look after the 20%, the 80% will have no problems whatsoever.

We have to recognise that a lot of times people get better in spite of us rather than because of us.

So a lot of these programmes are around putting together an assessment and an exercise curriculum that will ensure that the 20% get recognised early and get to where they want to go.

And then the beauty of having biomechanics incorporated with that or assessment guided rehab as they've done it for years here is that you do a block of work, nothing is more humbling than having your work reassessed and you either got what you needed to get or you didn't need to get.

And so that when people start to get There's a great book by Cal Newport called So Good They Can't Ignore You.