Doc On The Run Podcast

This may seem like a crazy question when you first think about it, because skiing seems like a high stress activity. But I have had lots of runners who have asked me this question, and usually when t…

If you rest long enough any overtraining injury will eventually calm down. 

But if you rest too long, you will lose all of your running fitness. 

The difference between elite athletes who get better …

Let's say you're out on a run and you start noticing this weird aching pain in your foot and so you suspect you have a metatarsal stress fracture. I often get consultation calls and webcam visits, an…

I often get questions from runners and this is actually a common one that I get from runners when they have either enrolled in the plantar plate sprain treatment course for runners, or if they've sig…

I lecture at medical conferences about stress fractures, trying to teach physicians the difference between a stress response, a stress reaction, which is basically an irritated and inflamed metatarsa…

If you only get one thing from this episode, let it be this…Thank you!

From the bottom of my heart I am grateful for you as a listener of the show!

More than 10 years ago I started writing a blog tal…

Every time I do a second opinion consultation with a runner who has a plantar plate injury, I hate to tell you this, but I hear the same story over and over and over.

Basically they call me and they …

Metatarsal stress fractures are one of the most common overtraining injuries afflicting runners.
Much of the time the stress fracture is preceded by what we as doctors call a “stress reaction.”

If yo…

This question came up from somebody in the coaching groups who wanted to make sure that she wasn't going to get re-injured.

She wanted to know which running shoes she should use to reassess her patte…

An MRI can be very helpful when you have a strange injury that doesn't seem to fit in any of the common running injury boxes. 

I just had a call from a runner in that very situation. He is someone wh…

Today's episode actually comes from a second opinion telemedicine visit with a runner who wanted to know more about a tarsal coalition. 

He had an X-ray and the doctor found this thing called a "C-si…

Today's episode comes from an injured runner who saw a doctor, got x-rays and found what looked like bone fragments in the peroneal tendons. 

We were doing a telemedicine second opinion consultation,…

I was just on a second opinion telemedicine call with an injured runner.

She had a recurring injury that was still keeping her from running. 

Unfortunately, that injury first started eight years ago.…

Today's question comes from a telemedicine visit second opinion for a runner. 

She was asking if she should have surgery to remove bone fragments.

I said, "Well, let's talk about what's going on with…

The other day I was talking to a runner who had some abnormal findings on the x-rays. 

What we could see was calcification in the Achilles tendon that looked like bone chips. 

She wanted to know if s…

Today's episode comes from a runner who was having some weird aches and pains when running.

One doctor suspected he might have a thing called a "tarsal coalition."

A tarsal coalition is an abnormal u…

A podcast listener sent in a great question for the Doc On The Run Podcast.

Sandra asked, "Is there a best way to ascertain if a person has a leg length discrepancy? MRI, measuring, what is it?"

"Lim…

Today's episode comes from a discussion in our Monday, Wednesday, Friday coaching group.

This was someone who actually had a metatarsal fracture and had graduated from using crutches to using the boo…

Today's discussion actually comes from a question from a runner in the Monday, Wednesday, Friday Coaching Group.

This is a runner who has a condition called "hallux rigidus."

He wanted to understand …

Today's episode comes from a discussion I had with a runner in person who had some foot pain, it was kind of weird.

He's an elite runner and he started developing this symptom that he couldn't figure…