Matt Whalan

@FigtreePhysio

🇦🇺 | PhD | Sports & Exercise Physio | Player Availability Coordinator @footballaus | FIFA l

Wollongong, Australia figtreephysio.com.au Joined September 2010

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Matt Whalan @FigtreePhysio Apr 23, 2021

💥🇦🇺⚽️ Excited to see the official release of the new @FootballAUS primary injury prevention and risk reduction programs - Football Australia Perform+ and Fundamentals+.

footballaustralia.com.au/performance

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Football Australia @FootballAUS Apr 23, 2021

.@FootballAUS today released a suite of free Injury Prevention, Warm Up and Performance resources designed to assist players at all levels of the sport to reduce their risk of injury, perform better on the field and to be available to play more football, more often.
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Matt Whalan @FigtreePhysio Jul 1

Another reason to prevent ACL injuries

Dan Lorenz @kcrehabguy Jun 30

New @BJSM_BMJ paper shows the risk of TKR increases 3X after having ACL reconstruction. I really wish these studies were able to correlate that to quad strength. Always seems to be underreported.

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Matt Whalan @FigtreePhysio Jul 26, 2025

🗣️ a privilege to be an invited speaker @theafcdotcom Medical Conference in Malaysia. Great to speak about the Perform+ system & preventing injuries!

Fantastic to re-connect with colleagues from all over the world - great to see work in Australia being used by FIFA, UEFA & AFC

Matt Whalan @FigtreePhysio Jun 25, 2025

🤝 New Article - great to see this out! Was an epic project.

Open Access

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tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Matt Whalan @FigtreePhysio Jun 17, 2025

Nice study - More evidence that niggles matter!

“Injuries that do not affect participation should not be ignored but managed, as they carry a five-fold increased risk of leading to participation restriction in the following week compared to healthy status.”

Pascal EDOUARD @PascalEdouard42 Jun 17, 2025

🚨ARTICLE🚨

"The ‘vicious circle’ of sports injuries: an analysis of 165 athletics (track and field) athletes over a 39-week follow-up using Markov chains"

A concept: Vicious circle of sports injuries
An innovative analytical approach: Markov chain

OA👉bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/11/2/e…

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