Trent Salo: Responding to Tendon Dysfunction

About this episode

Trent Salo discusses tendon health and dysfunction, sharing insights from his experience and research.

Trent Salo - Owner/Founder of the Tendon Lab - joins us for the 139th episode of the podcast. On today's show we dive into quite a few topics regarding tendon health and care. Trent gives us some hugely valuable information when it comes to loading, understanding mechanisms, difference in intervention, and much more in the way of tendon dysfunction. As a former NBA Director and current PhD student, Trent has been a student of performance his entire career, and we were excited for him to be able to share just a small part of that in this conversation. Make sure you check out his website: https://www.thetendonlab.com/ and the upcoming Traverse City Tendon Summit from April 24-26th. You can find more information about the summit and sign up for the free tendon newsletter here: https://www.traversecitytendonsummit.com/ You can also find Trent on social media @trentsalo Find and follow us on social media @mtn_perform and check back each Wednesday for a new episode A huge Thank You to our sponsor, Hawkin Dynamics: Hawkin is the world leader in force measuring, and continues to put forth the tools for high-performance practitioners to be exactly that, high performers. If you haven't yet…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike Sullivan, Hunter Eisenhower

Guest: Trent Salo

Topics covered

• tendon health
• tendon dysfunction
• performance
• loading mechanisms
• intervention strategies

Keywords

• tendon health
• tendon dysfunction
• performance
• loading
• intervention
• NBA
• PhD

Sponsors

Hawkin Dynamics, Samson Equipment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tendon Lab

Places: Traverse City

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