FM 006 - How to efficiently connect medical and coaching staffs - a talk with Carlos Carvalhal

In this sixth episode we talk with football manager Carlos Carvalhal from Portugal, who recently trained Sheffield Wednesday and Swansea in the UK. In this interview we discuss some aspects regarding this type of relation, like: main expectations from the manager about the work of a medical department; main flaws, if any, found in this department and how to correct them; and the up-growing role of the medical staff in training load monitoring and management.

FM 003 - Load Management with Steve Barrett

For the third episode of the Football Medicine® Podcast we invited Steve Barrett, head chief of the Sports Science Department at Hull City FC, to talk about load management strategies, with special focus on RPE: its purpose, differences between sRPE and dRPE and their correlation with other external load measurements like GPS.