The Ask Mike Reinold Show

The Ask Mike Reinold Show is built for clinicians who think in progressions, criteria, and return-to-sport decisions. It is direct and clinic-minded. The show takes physical therapy and sports performance questions and works through them with the kind of practical detail that matters when an athlete or patient is in front of the provider. Recent episodes spend real time on ACL reconstruction, especially whether a fixed nine-month marker should guide return to sport. The answer is treated as more complicated than a calendar date. Objective testing, criteria-based progressions, strength work, agility, plyometrics, and running all sit inside that larger conversation. Rotator cuff repair brings out a different kind of caution. The discussion around handheld dynamometry after surgery emphasizes tissue healing, the operation report, surgeon communication, and the risk of asking for a max-effort contraction too soon. The show is comfortable saying that one injury category cannot simply borrow the testing logic of another. Hamstring strains, by contrast, can involve strength testing within tolerance as part of the assessment picture. That distinction captures the show's appeal. It is not chasing general rehab slogans; it is sorting clinical situations by tissue, timing, risk, and usefulness. Strength measurement comes up as both a tool and a skill. Standardized positioning, consistent cues, shared clinic protocols, device choice, and tester reliability all matter. The conversations also widen beyond treatment rooms. The anniversary episode turns toward the next decade of physical therapy and raises uncomfortable professional concerns around reimbursement, burnout, student debt, and the return on investment of PT school. The tone is conversational, sometimes blunt, but still grounded in clinical reasoning. Champion PT and Performance is a recurring frame for the work. For listeners, the value is the show's habit of turning everyday rehab questions into sharper decisions.