Doc On The Run Podcast

Today's episode comes from a question from one of the Doc On The Run YouTube channel viewers about fibular stress fractures. 

There are only tow bones between your knee and your foot: The Tibia (or s…

I was just speaking with a runner who scheduled a second opinion consultation. He asked, "what is the best way to tell if my foot is broken." 

I said, "Well, there's the fast and easy way and then th…

Today's episode comes from a comment on Doc On The Run YouTube channel. 

Colin watched the video explaining: “Bone bruise vs stress reaction in a runner.” He posted a question asking what he should d…

I just had a conversation with a runner who signed up for one of the self-help courses. She booked a short call just to get a jumpstart, prioritize and figure out what she really needed to do first, …

Perhaps the most nagging injury, and most difficult to deal with if you're a runner, is something called a "plantar plate sprain." 

The plantar plate ligament is on the bottom of the foot, usually a…

The peroneal tendons help stabilize your foot. They're kind of your landing gear when you run. They keep you from wobbling or swaying out of control. 

When you start to roll your ankle, the peroneal …

Today's episode comes from a discussion I had with a runner who is only five weeks out from a marathon. 
 
She has been injured and super-aware that she could lose her fitness fast!

Her main goal on …

There really are three basic steps that doctors use when you have a broken toe. 
 
The medical term for this procedure is called "closed reduction." 

We don't cut the broken toe open, look at the bon…

One of the questions I get most often from runners with stress fractures is...

"How can I get it to heal better? How do I get back to running faster?"
 
The best way is to remove the stress so that t…

Plantar plate injuries are very common, and they are extremely annoying. 
 
I get lots of questions and comments both from the podcast and from the Doc On The Run YouTube channel about plantar plate …

If you have ankle pain and you push around on that lump of bone on the outside of your ankle, you may realize that you have pain on the bone specifically.  

If so, you might become worried that you h…

If you've been running, training for a marathon or an ultra-marathon and you start to get pain on the outside of your ankle, you do have a reason to be concerned.
 
There are really four things that …

If you have been told you have a plantar plate sprain, you're probably already really frustrated. 

Even minor plantar plate tears can be nagging injuries that are very difficult to get better while y…

If you're out on a run and you roll your ankle, you need to know how you can test the ankle to figure out what is wrong.
 
More importantly, what tests can tell you how likely it is that you're actua…

There are times when you might have a suspected stress fracture in your foot. If so, your doctor may order an X-ray. 

There are other times when it's extremely unlikely that you have a broken bone at…

If you are running with foot or ankle pain, and you're trying to figure out what's wrong, the first step is deciding if it is a bone injury or  soft tissue injury. 
 
It might be useful to talk about…

I recently did an episode where I was talking about Lister’s corns.

If you missed it, a "Lister's corn" is really just a callus or thick skin that looks like the pinky toenail or the little toenail h…