Doc On The Run Podcast

One of the phrases I often tell injured runners is that “nothing in medicine is free.”

For every potential treatment that might help some particular injury, you pay for it in risk.

A fracture walking…

Today's episode actually comes from a question sent in by Shay.

She said, "I have a plantar plate complete tear and I had surgery on my left foot in October 2019. So that was a couple years ago. I'm …

This weekend I was lecturing at the International Foot & Ankle Foundation meeting in lake Tahoe, and I was lecturing on running injuries.

At the beginning of that lecture, I was asking the group of d…

I just got off the phone with a runner who had a plantar plate sprain. He was out on a run, he got a plantar plate sprain.

I saw him, I helped him understand what to do and what I showed him to do wa…

Yesterday I was giving a lecture at the International Foot & Ankle Foundation meeting in Lake Tahoe. The topic was on protocols for return to running after recovering from over training injuries.

One…

One of the worst injuries you can actually get if you're a runner is a plantar plate ligament sprain.

The plantar plate ligament is a very small ligament on the bottom of the foot, where the toe atta…

I talk to injured runners all the time, and what I see is there are some runners who are kind of over the hump.

They've started figuring out that they're injured and they're going to have to do a who…

I got a question from a runner who's had a metatarsal stress fracture who's very frustrated, who's trying to figure out how to get back to running.

He went and saw a doctor and he was told that he ha…

I just got off a consultation call with a runner who called me for a second opinion, and she had an injury.

She actually said that a doctor told her she wasn't built to be a runner.

I'm not built to …

In this podcast episode we’re talking about one of my favorite false beliefs. It's that rest equals recovery.

This sort of makes sense to most people, but then runners get confused and wind up callin…

In this episode we're talking about whether or not you can't run just because you got a running injury and this is a thing I hear all the time from injured runners.

They call me because they're frust…

A running injury is always bad. No runner is ever happy to have a stress fracture or to have plantar fasciitis or Achilles tendonitis...or something worse.

If you get an overtraining injury and you'r…

If you are a runner with a plantar plate injury, it is pretty easy for a doctor to make a convincing sales pitch on surgery. There are a couple of reasons that you should consider surgery for a plant…

I was recently doing a webcam call with an injured runner who wanted to know whether or not he should try to work on his running form.
 
He got injured and he started to get better. But the injury ke…

One thing that's really demoralizing if you get a stress fracture is to spend a bunch of time in a fracture walking boot and then go get something like an MRI and be shocked and horrified when the do…

I was just on a call with an injured runner who's been having trouble for a couple of months. He wanted to know what to do next. 

The very next step in most cases is getting baseline numbers so you c…

If you're a runner with running pain on the top of the foot, it could be lots of different things. 

The actual diagnosis depends on what happened, what you did, and what it feels like now.

There are …

If you've got an overtraining injury, but you're trying to figure out how to stay fit, a lot of people are going to think that you're not normal.

But if you ran 50 miles you are not normal.

If you si…

I just saw a comment on our YouTube videos from a runner named Mary. She viewed the video on permanent calf atrophy, and how that can happen if you spend way too long in a fracture walking boot or a …

If you've been running and you started having pain on the outside of your foot and then you went to see a doctor who diagnosed you with a thing called a Jones fracture, you're probably really worried…