Doc On The Run Podcast

What if you could be out on a run, sun on your face, running two weeks ahead of schedule, faster than what you thought, or what some doctor told you? 

That would be amazing, right?

Let me tell you th…

Everyday I help runners who are stuck by giving them a different perspective during a second opinion call. 

When we get on the call, we do a couple of things to get focused in the right direction and…

Ankle sprains are probably the most common musculoskeletal injury affecting runners. It is really easy to roll an ankle and find yourself limping, unable to run.

You might have sprained your ankle tr…

In this episode, we're talking about three mistakes I see almost every runner make when they call me for help.

Let's be clear, runners do not call me when they are on their run and first start getti…

A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to give some lectures at the Heartland Podiatry Conference in Des Moines, Iowa.  The conference organizers asked me to give an entire "Doc On The Run session" dur…

If you have trouble with your Achilles tendon and a doctor told you that you might actually rupture it and tear completely if you continue to run, you should probably be worried.

If you are anxious a…

Today's episode comes from a question from one of the YouTube viewers. The specific question was, are calcified Achilles tendons more prone to tendon rupture in runners?

That's a great question.

I th…

What would happen if you did this? 

Walk into your doctor's office and say, 

"Hey, look, I'm a runner. My situation is complicated. I really want to train. I really want to get back to running. I wou…

If you're a runner and you have pain in the ball of the foot, especially around your second toe joint where the toe attaches to the foot, you may be suffering from a plantar plate sprain.

Many years …

Every time a runner calls me who has a plantar plate sprain, they're trying to figure out how they can know for sure they actually do have a plantar plate sprain. They often also want to know how bad…

If you are a runner and you have an injury, my guess is that you are most worried about how long you will need to stop running.

When people call me for a webcam consultation or an in-person second op…

Last week I was lecturing at the International Foot & Ankle Foundation medical conference in Hawaii. Specifically, I had been asked to give a couple of talks on treating running injuries.

During the …

Growth happens outside of your comfort zone. This is true for both emotional growth and physical growth.

Very few patients who call me for help with a stress fracture are not really upset.

They all f…

If you have this pain on the outside of your foot near the cuboid bone, you might start worrying you have a cuboid stress fracture.

Cuboid stress fractures are rare. 
 
In fact, cuboid stress fractur…

If you have been running with a nagging aching pain on the outside of your foot, just in front of your ankle, you might think you have a cuboid stress fracture. 
 
If you then get an x-ray of the foo…

If you call me and you tell me, I think I have a cuboid stress fracture, the first thing I'd say is...pretty unlikely. 
 
In fact, cuboid stress fractures are less than 1% of all the stress fractures…

"Subluxed Cuboid" is just a cuboid sitting slightly out of position. 

Stress fracture of the cuboid is very different from a subluxed cuboid. 

If you have this aching pain on the side of your foot, a…

If you are a runner and you've had pain on the outside of your ankle or the outside of your foot, kind of near the heel you may have been told that you have peroneus longus tendinitis. 

Sometimes per…