Doc On The Run Podcast

If you're a runner who has been told that you have a cuboid stress fracture, you might be worried that there's an actual crack in the bone.
 
A visible crack on x-ray is what I think of when I pictur…

If you are a runner and you get an aching pain on the top of the foot, and it's not getting better, you might have this weird thing called a cuboid stress fracture. 

Cuboid stress fractures are often…

Just today I was seeing a runner during a house call and he had a neuroma. So, understandably, he put a neuroma pad in his shoes.

When he was running, his neuroma suddenly got way worse!

I asked him …

I was just speaking at a medical conference in Las Vegas, and of course I flew on a plane to get there. 
 
To me, as a podiatrist, the most dangerous two spots in the airport are in the security scre…

If you are a runner with a painful tendon or ligament issue like chronic plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis or plantar plate sprain that just won't get better, you might have done some research i…

The #1 concern all injured runners face is time. 

How long will I have to use crutches.

How long will it take the surgery to heal.

How long will I have to wear a fracture walking boot. 

How long will…

If you have ever run with a rock in your shoe, you know just how painful a little pebble can be.

Sometimes a callus forms in a way that it gets rock hard and starts to get embedded in the skin.

Painf…

The whole key to rapid running injury recovery is to proceed with confidence.

If you are using a fracture walking boot or crutches, you must do so confident the boot is necessary...and not based on g…

One time at a medical conference, an expert lecturing on biomechanics said, 

“When a runner develops Hallux Rigidus, he becomes a swimmer instead of a runner.”

Most of the doctors in the audience lau…

I was just giving 3 lectures on running injuries at a medical conference in Las Vegas.  

As is often the case, after one of my lectures one of the physicians in the audience approached me in the hall…

When you have two painful problems in different parts of the same foot, things can get complicated.

I recently had a call with an injured runner with a couple of different problems. 

On the outside o…

I just got off a call with a runner who needed a second opinion with his running injury recovery.

He had a fracture and it has been improving. But because it was painful and swollen, he was still ici…

Sometimes a doctor really needs to touch your foot to make the diagnosis. But not always with runners. 

Since the pandemic pushed so many of us into Zoom meetings, we all know it's pretty easy to get…

Today's episode comes from a great question I got during one of the Runners Aid station calls.

This was someone who had a plantar plate sprain and had talked to a doctor about a couple of different p…

Ivan has a great question. After watching the watching the video "Can I Run After Wearing a Fracture Boot?” he wanted to know: “It still swells and
has a lot of pain what do I do?”

Anytime a runner g…

Let's say you've had an aching pain in the ball of the foot that's been going on for several weeks. 

You've tried lots of stuff. You tried icing it. You tried some over-the-counter inserts that you g…

I was just on a call with a cross-country runner  who had had a second metatarsal stress reaction. 

A stress reaction is basically like a mild stress fracture, but without any crack in the bone. 

She…

The radiologist reading your MRI knows nothing about your problem. 

The only clues a radiologist gets about your injury are described in the clinical history section of the MRI order from your doctor…

This episode has a whole bunch of complicated-sounding terms that you may have never heard before. 

One of them is sinus tarsi syndrome, and the other one is FHL tenosynovitis or flexor hallucis long…

Imagine your doctor tells you that you have a metatarsal stress fracture and you should not run. 

Why would you come home from the doctor and call me asking, "Can I run in cleats with a stress fractu…