Doc On The Run Podcast

Every treatment in medicine has pluses and minuses. Applying ice is no different. Ice can make some things better, and some things worse.

If you ice something, in general it will calm that inflammato…

Every day I do telemedicine calls with injured runners.  They often ask questions that remind me of things learned in the past, that help them understand what to do right now.

It's interesting how ma…

Ankle sprains are incredibly common in runners.

Sprained ankles account for about 10% of all musculoskeletal injuries that show up in the Emergency Room.

But there is another injury that can seem sor…

If you suffer a severe running injury, some doctors will give you crutches to speed up the recovery process.

Healing any running injury is a race against time. 

All overtraining injuries will eventua…

This podcast episode comes from a telemedicine visit second opinion with a triathlete and runner who was having pain as he ramped up his mileage.

It turns out he had what we call a limb length discre…

This is a great question from a runner I've been helping in the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday coaching group. 

She had a fifth metatarsal fracture and wanted to know if this could actually cause post…

A runner in the in the recovering runners coaching group asked a great question.

She had just broken her toe and could barely walk on it. She was really worried that she was going to have to use a fr…

I just got a great question from somebody who said he went rock climbing over the weekend, and he got a huge blister on his big toe from his climbing shoes.

He didn't really complain that much about …

I recently got a great question from a runner who was calling me for a second opinion during a telemedicine visit.

She wanted to run but had a partial rupture in the plantar fascia.

When we were talk…

I got a call from a runner who has a really interesting situation.

He's been doing lots of running, but he's been getting pain in his ankle whenever he runs. 

He gets a little bit of swelling in the …

This is a great question I got from a runner during a recent telemedicine visit and this was a runner who actually called me for a second opinion because she had a tear in the plantar fascia.

She fel…

I was just doing a call with a runner who started running before his fracture was healed on the x-ray.

In fact his regular doctor said he couldn’t run on it until the x-rays showed healing.

I let him…

This episode actually comes from a question I got during the live question and answer period at the end of a talk I was giving at the International Foot and Ankle Foundation meeting in Hawaii.

The qu…

A doctor at a medical conference asked me a great question! 

I was giving a lecture at the International Foot and Ankle Foundation meeting in Hawaii on runners heel pain, specifically about the, what…

Today I got a question from a doctor who wanted to know what I would do with a runner after surgery to remove non-healing sesamoid fractures in both feet. 

You have two sesamoid bones under the big t…

I was just given a talk at the International Foot and Ankle Foundation's 40th Annual Hawaii Seminar.

And at the end of the session, we got a couple of questions from the audience during the live Q&A …

This episode comes from a question from a runner I saw in person during a second opinion house call. 

She had a  metatarsal stress fracture and felt like it was more comfortable when she was barefoot…

If you want to get back to running faster after a foot fracture (or any overtraining injury), the whole key is make sure that you are increasing your activity to get stronger, instead of just sitting…

A podcast listeners wrote in and she asked, 

"How long do I need to stop running or take it easy after taking five doses, meaning two and a half days, of Cipro? 

I told my doctor I was a runner, so I…

A couple of weeks ago, I was working on my motorcycle, and I accidentally cut myself open. 

Long story short…I let a middle school kid put the stitches in the wound. 

In this episode we talk about ho…