Deep Dive Ortho — Orthopaedic Surgery, AI & Digital Health Podcast.
Health, Fitness & Longevity
About
Ortho. AI. Leadership. Digital Health. Bones, Joints, Muscles, Tendons—and everything in between. Deep Dive Ortho is the podcast for orthopaedic surgeons, MSK clinicians, and healthcare leaders who want to grow as surgeons, evolve as thinkers, and thrive as humans. Founded by Professor Mohamed Imam — consultant orthopaedic surgeon, founder, and digital health advocate — every episode goes beyond the surface. We unpack cutting-edge orthopaedic surgery techniques, the latest in shoulder, knee, and joint research, regenerative medicine, robotics, and AI in healthcare. We talk to the people shaping modern medicine: world-class orthopaedic surgeons, healthcare entrepreneurs, digital health founders, and physician leaders. If you are an orthopaedic trainee preparing for fellowship, a consultant surgeon refining your practice, a clinical leader navigating change, or a healthcare innovator building the future of MSK care, this is your show. What you will find inside Deep Dive Ortho: • Deep dives into orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine, and MSK clinical practice • Honest conversations on physician leadership, career sustainability, and burnout prevention • The intersection of AI, digital health, and orthopaedics • Innovation, entrepreneurship, and the business of modern medicine • Practical wisdom for surgical trainees and early-career consultants New episodes weekly. Follow Deep Dive Ortho wherever you listen. 🔗 www.DeepDiveOrtho.com
Episodes
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Evidence-Based Clinical Management 2026
This episode of the Deep Dive Ortho podcast reviews the latest evidence and clinical management strategies for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. It aims to provide listeners with essential insights and context regarding current practices and controv…
- Scaphoid Fractures: Clinical Diagnosis, Treatment, and AVN Management
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses clinical diagnosis, treatment, and AVN management for scaphoid fractures, reviewing the newest evidence and controversies in the field.
- Subscapularis Tears: Clinical Diagnosis and Surgical Management
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses the clinical diagnosis and surgical management of subscapularis tears, reviewing the newest evidence and controversies in the field.
- Wrist Instability and Carpal Pathologies: Clinical Guide
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho reviews current evidence and clinical insights regarding wrist instability and carpal pathologies. It aims to provide listeners with must-know information and context for understanding these conditions.
- Advances and Comparisons in Orthopaedic Fracture Fixation
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho examines the latest evidence and discussions surrounding advances and comparisons in orthopaedic fracture fixation, providing clinical insights and takeaways.
- Wearable Technology in Trauma and Rehabilitation: Scoring, Monitoring, and Adoption
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses the newest evidence and clinical takeaways regarding wearable technology in trauma and rehabilitation, covering scoring, monitoring, and adoption.
- 3D Printing in Orthopedics: Applications and Considerations
This episode discusses the applications and considerations of 3D printing in orthopedics, reviewing the newest evidence and clinical takeaways.
- Revolutionizing Orthopedics with AI and Wearable Monitoring
This episode discusses the latest evidence and buzz surrounding AI and wearable monitoring in orthopedics, providing clinical takeaways and context behind the headlines.
- Blockchain and Data Security in Healthcare and Orthopaedics.
This episode examines the current evidence and discussions surrounding blockchain and data security in healthcare and orthopaedics. It aims to provide clarity on the topic, highlighting key insights and controversies.
- The Aging Athlete: Adjustment Without Abandonment
This sports medicine podcast episode discusses the care of active older adults, emphasizing training adjustments over cessation of activity. It covers challenges such as slower recovery and interpreting diagnostics, aiming to guide clinici…
- Achilles: Injury Epidemiology, Repair Techniques, and Recovery
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses Achilles injuries, covering their epidemiology, various repair techniques, and the recovery process.
- AI and Digital Twins in Musculoskeletal Care
This episode reviews the newest evidence and discussions surrounding AI and Digital Twins in Musculoskeletal Care, providing clinical insights and addressing controversies.
- How do scientists link genetics to health?
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses how scientists link genetics to health. It covers the newest evidence and buzz in the field, aiming to provide clinical takeaways and context behind the headlines.
- How can scientists know what's in your genome?
This episode discusses the methods and evidence used by scientists to determine the contents of a person's genome, aiming to provide clarity on the topic.
- Biomechatronics: Control, Augmentation, and Movement Restoration
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses Biomechatronics: Control, Augmentation, and Movement Restoration, focusing on the latest evidence, clinical takeaways, and controversies.
- Wearable Technology in Trauma and Rehabilitation: Scoring, Monitoring, and Adoption
This episode examines current research and discussions on wearable technology's role in trauma and rehabilitation, focusing on scoring, monitoring, and adoption, and providing clinical takeaways.
- Foundations and Future of Embodied AI Systems
This episode reviews current evidence and discussions on the Foundations and Future of Embodied AI Systems, covering key insights, controversies, and clinical takeaways.
- Fault Lines: AI Liability and the Clinical Bedside
This episode discusses the legal liability of healthcare professionals using AI in clinical settings. It stresses that clinicians and institutions remain accountable, even as regulations adapt, and highlights the importance of independent…
- The Global Landscape of Medical Tourism
This episode discusses the global landscape of medical tourism, examining current evidence, insights, and controversies. It aims to provide listeners with key clinical takeaways and the context behind relevant headlines.
- Terrible Triad of the Elbow: Management and Clinical Outcomes
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses the Terrible Triad of the Elbow, reviewing the latest evidence, controversies, and clinical takeaways in its management and outcomes.
- Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Triage and Care
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho examines the newest evidence and discourse surrounding Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Triage and Care, providing clinical takeaways and context.
- Endurance training
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho focuses on endurance training, reviewing the newest evidence, insights, and controversies to provide essential clinical takeaways for listeners.
- Patient Motivations and Expectations
This episode examines current research and discussions concerning patient motivations and expectations within medical tourism, providing essential clinical insights.
- The Physician's Framework for Self-Coaching and Clarity
This episode details a self-coaching framework for physicians, using written prompts to help them resolve personal and professional dilemmas. The host explains how this method aids in bypassing circular thinking and uncovering fears for gr…
- Environmental Sustainability in Medical Tourism
This episode examines the topic of Environmental Sustainability in Medical Tourism, reviewing current evidence and debates to provide key insights and clinical takeaways.
- The Global Landscape of Medical Tourism
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses The Global Landscape of Medical Tourism, examining the newest evidence, controversies, and key clinical insights. It aims to provide context for current discussions on the topic.
- Medical Tourism: Evolution, Theory, and Global Typologies
This episode examines the latest evidence and buzz surrounding Medical Tourism: Evolution, Theory, and Global Typologies, providing insights, discussing controversies, and highlighting key clinical takeaways.
- The Global Ecosystem of Medical Tourism and Stakeholder Dynamics
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho examines the global ecosystem of medical tourism and its stakeholder dynamics, cutting through the noise to provide essential insights and clinical takeaways.
- Distal Radioulnar Joint Injuries and Instability
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses Distal Radioulnar Joint Injuries and Instability, reviewing new evidence and clinical takeaways.
- The SUCCESS Principles of Powerful Presentation Secrets
This episode explores the SUCCESS Principles for crafting and delivering impactful presentations, drawing from TED Talk analysis. It covers structuring content, using storytelling, and employing techniques to make messages memorable and pe…
- The Art of Designing Worthy Presentation Slides
This episode discusses designing effective presentation slides, advocating for visual anchors and a single idea per slide, inspired by the TED talk format. It emphasizes using high-quality imagery, consistent design, and audience-focused c…
- Radius and Ulnar Shaft Fractures
In this episode, listeners explore the latest clinical evidence and controversies surrounding the treatment of radius and ulnar shaft fractures. The discussion aims to provide practitioners with essential clinical takeaways and context.
- Atypical Ulnar fracture
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses Atypical Ulnar fractures, reviewing current evidence, controversies, and essential clinical information.
- Coronoid process fractures and their role in elbow stability
This episode reviews the newest evidence and discussions surrounding coronoid process fractures and their importance for elbow stability, offering clinical insights and highlighting controversies.
- Proximal humerus fractures
This episode of the Deep Dive Ortho podcast reviews current evidence and discussions regarding proximal humerus fractures, offering clinical insights and addressing controversies in orthopaedic surgery.
- The First Sixty Seconds: Designing the Clinical Opening
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses the critical first sixty seconds of clinical encounters in orthopaedic surgery, reviewing current evidence and providing essential clinical insights.
- The Demo Gap: A Clinician’s Filter for Real AI
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses "The Demo Gap: A Clinician’s Filter for Real AI", sifting through evidence and buzz to offer clinical takeaways and context behind headlines.
- Clinical management of clavicle fractures
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho focuses on the clinical management of clavicle fractures, reviewing recent evidence, controversies, and key takeaways for clinicians.
- Humeral Nonunion Management
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho reviews the newest evidence and clinical takeaways for Humeral Nonunion Management, addressing current insights and controversies in the field.
- Distal humerus fractures
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho reviews the newest evidence and discussions surrounding distal humerus fractures, offering insights and clinical takeaways.
- From Rejection to the Nobel Prize
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho examines the evidence and discussions surrounding 'From Rejection to the Nobel Prize,' offering insights, addressing controversies, and highlighting key clinical takeaways.
- Orthopedic Surgery: From Ancient Origins to Robotic Horizons
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses the history of orthopedic surgery, tracing its development from ancient practices to modern robotic applications.
- The Invisible Infrastructure: Forging the Digital Backbone of the Borderless Virtual Ward
This episode discusses the 'Invisible Infrastructure' and its role in creating the digital backbone for the borderless virtual ward, drawing from the newest evidence and discussions in the field.
- The Host’s Dilemma: Brain Drains, Superbugs, and the True Cost of Care
This episode discusses current evidence and discussions surrounding brain drains, superbugs, and the true cost of care within orthopaedic surgery, offering insights and clinical takeaways.
- Digital Technology in the Transformation of Medical Tourism
This episode examines the role of digital technology in transforming medical tourism, sifting through evidence and buzz to provide key insights and clinical takeaways.
- Sustainable Medical Tourism: Aligning Planet, Patient, and Profit
This episode examines the evidence and discussions surrounding Sustainable Medical Tourism, focusing on its alignment with environmental, patient, and financial considerations. It aims to provide clarity on the topic's key aspects and clin…
- Digital Technology in the Transformation of Medical Tourism
This episode examines the impact of digital technology on medical tourism, presenting current evidence and key clinical insights. It aims to provide clarity on the topic beyond the headlines.
- Building a Sustainable Medical Tourism Brand
This episode examines the latest evidence and trends regarding sustainable medical tourism brands. It aims to provide listeners with essential clinical insights and context behind current headlines in the field.
- Roadmap for Value-Driven Medical Tourism
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho examines the 'Roadmap for Value-Driven Medical Tourism,' presenting evidence and insights while highlighting clinical takeaways and the context behind current headlines.
- The AI Job Revolution: 20 New Careers Shaping the Future
This episode of Deep Dive Ortho discusses the AI Job Revolution, focusing on 20 new careers. It aims to provide insights and clinical takeaways related to the topic.