Doc On The Run Podcast

All overtraining injuries are difficult. 

The problem is that you're trying to not lose your running fitness while giving the injured part enough of a rest so it can actually heal.
 
A runner asked m…

I was recently doing a second opinion consultation with a runner over a webcam to review the MRI of his foot. 
 
What we found was that he had what looked to be attenuation and a partial tear in the …

Every runner who gets injured is in a race against time.  

It is a race to not lose your running fitness. 
 
You know you are going to get weaker. You know you're going to get stiffer. You're probabl…

I just saw a runner who sprained her ankle.  It's been about a month and she's still having pain. Pain and swelling persisting a month later, are not good. There are a couple of reasons that that ca…

If you are a runner with pain in the ball of the foot at the base of the second toe and start researching online, you may become concerned you have a thing called a plantar plate injury. 
 

If so, yo…

Just this week, I got a call from an injured runner about a new problem. I've seen him before for some other issues, but in this case.

He said that he thought maybe he actually had an ingrown toenail…

Today's episode comes from a YouTube viewer named John, who wrote in with a question about nerve pain vs. peroneal tendon pain. 
 
He said ”I'm experiencing discomfort in my fifth metatarsal/peroneal…

You're out on a run, and you suddenly start having extremely sharp heel pain.

You think it's plantar fasciitis. 

But when you look at your foot, you see a huge bruise. 
 
That's not plantar fasciitis…

One of the most powerful ways to reduce stress and strain on any piece of injured tissue is to get completely off of your feet.  Bedrest can do that. 

I was talking with a runner recently who asked a…

Today I was on a call with an injured runner who was told she had plantar fasciitis. 
 
She was confused and she started doing some research. She enrolled in the Runner's Heel Pain Course because she…

Have you ever been to the doctor and heard this, “You must be allergic to running because you get injured every time you go running.” 

A recovering runner and I were on a call talking about how she c…

Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common conditions that affects runners.

In fact, foot pain consistent with plantar fasciitis accounts for about 40% of all visits to the podiatrists in the United…

I just had a discussion with a really interesting patient. He was a pro triathlete. He had some difficulty getting past a particular injury.

We were talking about all of the ways that you can encount…

Every runner with a stress fracture wants to know "when can I run?" 

How soon you can start running after a foot fracture really depends on when you have enough strength in the bone so that the heali…

The first thing any runner should do when you roll your ankle is protect the ankle from further injury. In fact, the algorithm doctors use to treat ankle sprains is P. R. I. C. E.

P stands for Protec…

There are three key indications that tell me that somebody may not have plantar fasciitis, but probably have something else.

If you think you have plantar fasciitis, you may have a different form of …