Doc On The Run Podcast

Let's say you are out running on a trail and you catch a root and you roll your ankle. 

You limp back home and you realize that your ankle is all swollen. It is bruised, it hurts and you're really bu…

I was just lecturing at the International Foot and Ankle Foundation meeting in Seattle. I was giving talks on running injuries. A doctor in the audience asked me if "not running" was the safest way f…

Let's consider you are a runner with a painful neuroma.

The more you run, the more painful the foot becomes. 

But it only started with some weird little sensations.

Eventually it starts to get more n…

I was listening to a podcast about the way that disagreements happen.

He said, anytime there's a disagreement, no matter what, there are two possibilities. 

If there are two people arguing about some…

Maybe you have been taking some time off because you have been injured. 

Maybe you took some time off because you spent way too much time in a fracture walking boot.

Maybe all of your training just t…

If you're reading this, it's probably not because you love toenail fungus. It it also probably not because you think black toenails are pretty. In fact, you probably think both are pretty gross and y…

If you get a plantar plate sprain, the first thing you may notice is pain and irritation at the ball of the foot, right where the second toe attaches to the foot. If the foot feels swollen, puffy or …

This morning I was on a call answering injury questions live in the Injured Runners Aid Station.

This runner actually said,

"Well, my doctor said that since I got a running injury, the solution is to…

I was just speaking with a woman who has a suspected mild plantar plate sprain. What was interesting is the fact that she doesn't really have a whole lot of pain.

I was explaining how important it is…

I just got off a webcam call in the Injured Runners Aid Station. The runner who called me, had some down with a cold.

He had been sick for a few days. He wasn't running. He was curious about whether …

The plantar plate ligament is a little ligament on the bottom of the ball of the foot, right where the toe attaches to the foot. The function of the plantar plate ligament is to reinforce the joint a…

If you recently started getting some aching pain on the outside of your ankle every time you run, you might have a condition called peroneal tendonitis. 

Peroneal tendonitis is a problem often encoun…

If you get pain on the top of the foot when you're running you might discover  you have a painful condition called extensor tenosynovitis.

"Tenosynovitis" just  means you have irritation and inflamma…

The other day in the Recovering Runner's Aid Station, I got a great question:

“If I get stress and strain on my foot, because I'm overweight, should losing weight be part of the strategy to actually …

Yesterday I saw a runner with a plantar plate sprain. She wanted to know if stretching the toe would help the plantar plate ligament heal faster. 

Plantar plate sprains happen because the plantar pla…

Think about what happens when you start running.

You decide you want to run. You make a decision, then you go out and you actually run.

You start working on your running form. Maybe you hire a coach …

Overtraining injuries only happen when you ignore a problem.

No runner wants to be injured. 

Most runners who call me for web-cam visits have been tuning out the signs of impending injury...long befo…

I just did a web-cam call with a runner who had a thing called a "mallet toe" deformity. He had pain in the ball of the foot when running.

He said he was reading about plantar plate sprains, and thou…

When we think about training for endurance events like marathons, we expect the payoff to feel good. 

We are patient with the process, yet in the progression of building fitness, we always expect tha…