Speaking

Conferences, fellowships, military schoolhouses, podcasts, and press.

Recent and upcoming

  • 2027The Things You Know That Just Ain’t SoElite Football Rehab Conference, invited
  • 2026Power Training Considerations for Para-AthletesAPTA CSM
  • 2026Dungeons and DynamometersTactical and Occupational Performance Conference, Georgia Southern, featured speaker
  • 2026Tracking Athlete Wellbeing Through Performance ToolsASPDA
  • 2026Managing Hip Pain and Total Joint Replacement Across the LifespanMotivations Inc
  • 2022 to 2026Thought Experiments for CliniciansWake Forest D1 Sports PT Fellowship, every year
  • 2024 to 2025Force testingSanford Sports Medicine Symposium, Physio Network, Rogue VBT Event, AETC Human Performance Summit, U.S. Air Force
Chris with Jen Gruenhagen and an athlete after a talk on para-athlete power training
After a talk on para-athlete power training with Jen Gruenhagen.

Podcasts and media

Older talks, 2014 to 2023

2023

  • Dynamic Systems and Clinical Practice, OPTA
  • High Tech / Low Cost, APTA CSM

2022

  • Return to Functional Fitness for the Adaptive Athlete, APTA CSM
  • What Is Strength and Do You Have Some?, Northwestern
  • The Best at Exercising, AMSC
  • Shoulder Exercise Ideology for Sports, CALU
  • How to Collect Kinetic Data, USAF CCT Schoolhouse
  • Cognitive Performance, USASOC

2021

  • The Squat, AASPT
  • What Is RFD? Science Meets Practice, APTA CSM and Creighton
  • Biomechanics and Physics, USAF Academy
  • Tendon Management Update, Evans Hospital, Fort Carson
  • Creatine for Cognition; Cold Water Immersion for Recovery, USASOC
  • Leadership Advice for Success, Memorial Hermann Residency

2020

  • Hip Pain and Anthropology, AUT
  • RFD vs. Power, AASPT
  • Hip and Rugby Modules, USAF Academy

2019

  • Hip Pain and the S&C Coach, AUT SPRINZ Conference
  • Anthropometrics and Hip Pain During Squatting, SIG Symposium

2018

  • Hip Preservation: CliffsNotes for the Clinician, TPTA
  • What Is FAI, Does It Matter, How Is It Managed?, SWATA
  • Strategies to Reduce Overuse Injuries in Endurance Athletes, Sports Medicine Update
  • APTA CPT Code Development Meeting, Boston

2017

  • What’s the Big Deal With FAI, TPTA
  • FAI and Hip Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine Update

2014 to 2016

  • Hip Procedures for the Rehab Specialist, Symposium of the Americas
  • Dry Needling for the Athlete and the Clinician, Sports Medicine Update and Symposium of the Americas
  • Reliability of the Criteria-Based SFMA, APTA CSM platform
University and residency teaching
  • USAF Academy PT Fellowship: hip, rugby, biomechanics, and physics modules (2020 to 2021)
  • Auckland University of Technology: physics and biomechanics, anatomy, intro to MSK (2019 to 2020)
  • Memorial Hermann sports residency: hip, tendinopathy, Olympic lifting in rehab, sideline management, isokinetic testing, EMR and primary care (2014 to 2019)
  • Bellarmine University: McKenzie Method; Spine II (2014)
  • Ohio State residency: spine, shoulder, concussion, imaging, and pharmacology (2012 to 2013)

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