Doc On The Run Podcast

I was just watching an injured runner walk. We were trying to pin down her diagnosis and figure out why she was getting injured.

She asked me what I actually saw when analyzing her gait.

One of the t…

What happens when you look down at your feet as you run? 

Many injured runners start looking down toward the injury, even as they run.
 
What do I mean by that? 
 
We start to hunch over, our running…

If you are reading this because you are researching Achilles tendinosis, I'm sorry.
 
Achilles tendinosis is one of the worst injuries a runner can get. 
 
Tendinosis is a serious problem and must be…

One of the things that's really important is that you really have to think about what it takes to ramp up without getting injured, and that requires tracking and paying attention to everything.

I'm g…

The reality is, there are only two kinds of runners that I think really need a fracture walking boot for plantar fasciitis.

The runners who don't mind losing all their running fitness and the other g…

One of the worst things when you're an injured runner is to stop taking action. 

Think about what would happen if you did this with a marathon. If you were to sign up for a race and you didn't do any…

A great question I got from someone recently who had a plantar plate injury and the toe was a little bit crooked.

His question was,

"Do I really need to have surgery if my toe is crooked? Is that a g…

Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain and it's also one of the most common reasons people actually go to the podiatrist.

The fastest way to get it to calm down is to reduce …

I do lots of running injury second opinions and I do most of those over webcam.

Sometimes I do them over phone, but webcam's way better because I can see you, we can talk, I can show you some stuff o…

If you are a runner with a plantar plate sprain, you may be really frustrated. 

Unfortunately, plantar plate sprains are difficult injuries to get better quickly. One key is to make sure it doesn't c…

Faith and doubt are both beliefs.

If you're taking action to maintain your running fitness, you have faith you're going to get better.

If you're doing nothing to maintain your running fitness it's be…

Is resting overrated for runners?

Well, the short answer is yes and no but I want you to think about something.

If it's true in training, then it must be true in over training injury recovery and whe…

This episode actually comes from Eryn and she's somebody who was listening to the Doc On The Run podcast and then sent in a question.

She said that she was 10 weeks out after getting a dancer's fract…

All day long I talk to injured runners and help them figure out what they could be doing differently to get back to running as quickly as possible.

I have realized is that the majority of injured run…

In today’s podcast we have Patrick from the Running Lean Podcast here on the show, and you’re going to love this episode.

Patrick McGilvray is a podcast host, Licensed Primary Sports Nutritionist, NA…

I was just on a call with a guy who signed up for the Runner’s Aid Station and one of the things we were talking about is he had noticed that while he was doing some specific exercise I gave him to r…

What exactly is primary repair of the planter plate? Well, that's a surgery where we actually go in and sew it back together. We fix it. We repair it. We do something to actually make it strong and h…

When other doctors ask me what I do, I tell them rather simply I help runners figure out how to stay fit, hang onto their running fitness and get back to running as quickly as possible.

The other day…

I have talked about this before in other episodes where you basically have four kinds of structures that you could consider having surgery on.

You could have bone surgery, you could have ligament sur…

The worst runner to call me for a second opinion is someone who has been in a fracture walking boot or not running for 12 weeks or so.

Why is that so bad?

Well, they're extremely aggravated. They've …