Doc On The Run Podcast

If you are a runner and you're thinking about surgery, you're probably maybe thinking about a second opinion, but maybe just doing your initial research, but some doctor has probably already suggeste…

In this episode we're talking about stress fractures and we're talking about what happens when you as a runner, wished something to be true and it's not a fact.

It's really important that you underst…

In today’s podcast we're talking about two different joint surgeries that are commonly performed as a component of plantar plate repair in injured runners.

This is a really important thing to underst…

In today’s episode we're talking about bias and bias, of course, is where somebody is already kind of made up their mind about what should be going on with you.

They're biased, they've got a slanted …

In today’s episode we're talking about the four classes of procedures that affect four different anatomic structures in your foot when you have a plantar plate injury.

I think t's really helpful if y…

I get questions all the time, daily almost, where somebody will send me a message and they'll say, "Well, I saw a doctor and they said I had this injury, and they said that I couldn't run for six wee…

A couple of years ago Martha was on the podcast talking about how hip arthritis has impacted her running and how she has been able to gain a different perspective on her running goals.

She is the hos…

This is the thing I came up with when I actually was thinking about what I do differently with runners now that I've been for about a decade, basically focusing just on injured runners, what do I do …

Today's episode actually comes from something I read in one of the running forums where someone actually was saying that they were confused.

They had been to see a couple of different doctors and had…

Several years ago I had the honor of speaking with Gary and interviewing him for an episode of the Doc On The Run Podcast, called From 400 Pounds To Running 100 Miles.

At one point in his life Gary, …

Let's say you have this aching pain in the ball of your foot. You've been running and when you run, you get some sort of weird aching soreness in the ball of the foot.

You just know it's in the middl…

I was just giving a talk recently at the IFAF where I was talking about protocols that I use with injured runners to help them get back to activity after common foot and ankle injuries that happen to…

If you're a runner and you think you have a grade 5 stress fracture because your radiology report said that or some doctor told you that, well, I have some good news and some bad news.

The good news …

What are the three best ways to diagnose extensor tenosynovitis in runners?

Well, it's pretty simple. They're really three ways that I think are effective and they can work, all of them.

It's not nec…

The way that I thought about this episode today is that I just got off the phone, I was on a consultation with a runner and he has a plantar plate injury and he was planning on getting an injection t…

This is a great question that I got from somebody on a call who actually signed up and enrolled in the plantar plate class for runners.

He was going through the plantar plate course and he was actual…

I recently got a call from someone who had a son who was in cross country and he's been having some trouble. He's had several weeks of not running, and she wanted to get some advice on what to do.

I …

Believe it or not, most of the time when I see a runner, either on webcam or in their home, and they have shin splints, and they've been given a fracture walking boot, they need the fracture walking …

I was just lecturing at the IFAF meeting in Lake Tahoe and I was giving a couple of different lectures on running injuries, and one of them was about the protocols that I use with injured runners so …

Today's episode is going to be a good one for you to listen to, if you've been told that you have a tibial stress fracture, or if you just think you might have a tibial stress fracture.

If you get a …