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I'm your host, Jessica Riddle. If you tuned in last week, you heard the first half of my conversation with doctor Tom Teter, where we unpacked the disconnect between rehab and performance and why so many traditional care models leave athletes underprepared and at risk for reinjury. Today, in part two of our conversation, we dig even deeper into what comes after pain relief. Doctor Teeter introduces us to the framework behind his clinical human performance practitioner certification, including the two audit systems he's developed to guide both clinical care and performance training. You'll also learn how his model helps eliminate confusion on integrated teams, establishes clear roles between providers, and ensures athletes transition seamlessly from rehab to full performance. This episode is full of practical or real world applications you can take straight into your practice or team environment. Let's jump back in.

That's huge. That's the first time I've heard someone so eloquently lay out exactly how that sports med team goes. And, obviously, it's not just the sports med team, but it's that, that entire integrated team that is responsible for those players and that team achieving whatever goals they have. So I think that's huge. And how does this framework that you explained in terms of the clinical audit process, the the fitness audit process, has that provided just a better level of and I don't want like, oftentimes when practitioners hear you use the word system, they're afraid that you're talking about cookie cutter care. Right? Because we've all unfortunately encountered practitioners that really just give every single patient the exact same treatment every single time they come through their doors. Whether that's for financial reasons or just lack of knowledge or otherwise. So how does having a system or framework still allow you the flexibility to make those clinical decision making decisions for each individual patient? Like, does it does it helps still allow for that flexibility, or do you feel like it also can kinda serve as a way to help guide younger, newer practitioners that are still getting started with all that?

All the above. Let me give you a really, I'm the king of really bad analogy, so I'm gonna give you a bad analogy. I think of it like bumper bowling. Right? If you and I go bowling and we put the bumpers up, those are the frameworks to make sure the ball doesn't get outside the lane. We need the ball to stay on the lane. How you roll the ball is entirely up to your experience and your expertise and your comfort. Right? But you have to know that this is the lane. Here's my boundaries.

And, like having an operational framework, it doesn't allow you to throw the ball out. I mean, it's gonna be really hard, but you can't throw the ball outside the lane. How you roll the ball is entirely up to your education, how the techniques you use. It's entirely up to your professional designation. Are you a chiropractor? Are you a physical therapist? Are you athletic trainer? Are you a massage therapist? It's up to your education, and it's up to your experience. I'm not telling you how to do technique x. I'm telling you where to use the techniques that you know in a structure of a system that gets you from point a, which is acute management, to point b, which is back on the fields.