Ep 278: Managing the uncertainty of tendinopathy, with Max Hopes

Tendinopathy will show up regularly in the clinic for many JOSPT Insights listeners. In a person-centred care model, it's important to understand the person with tendinopathy, where they're coming from and what they're experiencing.

Today's guest has been studying patients' experience of different types of lower limb tendinopathies. The results might surprise you, in just how complex and variable people's experiences are.

Max Hopes is an osteopath and researcher (University of Technology Sydney) studying lower limb tendinopathy. Today Max shares some of the early results of his PhD work, and we explore what it means for musculoskeletal practice.

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RESOURCES

Lived experiences of people with tendinopathy: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2026.13666