Doc On The Run Podcast

I just got off the phone with an elite athlete recently who asked a great question.

He called me and said, "I have custom orthotics and I know they support my foot better. So the question is, can I u…

One of the things about getting an MRI has to do with timing of the injury.

What do I mean by that?

Well, it means timing in terms of when the MRI is done relative to how long it has been since you a…

Every time I talk to a recovering runner who is trying to figure out how to run, and help figure out what's causing all their trouble, I ask them to keep a pain journal.

Why do you think that is?

Pai…

When you get a stress fracture, you have to remember that it is a stress related injury.

That's why it's called a "stress" fracture.

It is not a "run-too-much" fracture. It is not a "ran-too-far" fra…

If you get an overtraining injury and your doctor tells you to stop running, so you sit still doing nothing, lots of bad things happen. 
 
If you stop running, you will feel terrible physically. Zero…

A runner with a calcaneal stress fracture has a problem. So we got on a call. 

The problem with calcaneal stress fractures is not healing. The heel bone "heals" fast!

Runners with calcaneal stress fr…

If you recently got an MRI and then looked at the MRI report, it may seem like a bunch of gibberish. 

What you really want to see is a picture of the actual injury.

So you do the most reasonable thin…

Let's say you're out on a run and you start feeling some aching pain in your foot. The next day you wake up, it really hurts when you step out of bed. 
 
You go see a doctor and you're told you have …

An injured runner called me with a problem. "I rolled my ankle and it hurts HERE. The explanation from my doctor didn't make any sense, because the pain on the top of my foot is not where the trouble…

If you're a runner who got injured and got an MRI, I'll bet that you've already tried to look at it...but you have simply no idea what you're looking at. 

You see there are more than a hundred images…

If you're injured, you really need to have a goal.

If you were to call me for a private consultation or a house call, I would not accept "I want to get over my foot pain" as a goal.

But interestingly…

You and your brain are supposed to be on the same team. You work hard with long runs, tempo runs and speed work to get your brain used to the idea of letting you run fast.  

But sometimes your mind c…

There are only a few occasions when you might want to get an MRI on both feet. 
 
Truthfully, getting an insurance company to agree to pay for an MRI on both feet is not easy to do. 

A few years ago …

When you're trying to get back to running, you have to think about all of the variables that can increase the stress and strain to your injured tissues.

Your "threshold for recovery" or your "thresho…

Yesterday it started to snow. So I decided to go out on a trail run on the trail in this picture.  

I only saw one deer and two people.

As I ran around a corner under a cliff two climbers approached …

One of my Elite Access patients sent me a message. He was having pain from an inflamed Tailor's bunion bursa at the base of the pinky toe.

He got a bigger shoe with a wider toe box that decreased the…

When you get injured, a lot of things go wrong. 
 
1. Because you have pain, you suspect you have to stop training.

2. When you see a doctor, they confirm your fear and tell you that you really need …

Today we're talking about metatarsal fracture, nonunion surgery versus no surgery.

I know some people will think that I probably should have gone straight from #665 to 667 because frankly, there are …