Doc On The Run Podcast

A new runner was having some aching in pain in the shins and he asked, 

"I just started running. I started having shin splints. Some people told me I have to stop. Some people, say I don't. What do I…

I was just doing a second opinion consultation over webcam with a runner who had an overtraining injury. 

She was really worried that she could to lose all of her fitness while waiting to heal. 

It i…

I just did a second opinion consultation with a runner who called and said she was diagnosed with a grade five stress fracture. 

The doctor didn't actually explain what that meant. He just said it wa…

I was just doing a second opinion consultation with a runner who was really stressed out.

She said, "I'm going to lose all my aerobic fitness. I'm going to get weaker. I'm going to get stiff or my ru…

The fifth metatarsal bone goes from your midfoot out to your little toe. And if you break it, it could be one of three things. 

You could have a shaft fracture, which heals pretty uneventfully, most …

This episode actually comes from a YouTube comment. This runner saw an image from when I was running a 50 mile trail race wearing Hoka trail running shoes. 

He said, "I would never take advice from a…

Today's episode actually comes from a podcast listener who had a question: 

"I got an MRI just to give me the green light to resume training and it showed a grade three stress reaction of the left ti…

Today’s episode comes from a podcast listener with a stress fracture and wants to get back to running.

Jennifer says, "I went to see my doctor again today for my MRI results.

He told me that I still …

I had a really great question from a patient on a second opinion webcam visit. 

“I have a partially torn plantar fascia. Can I keep running and let it heal later?”

He had purchased The Runner's Heel …

It's no secret..I like to talk about running injuries!

But after so many years working with injured runners, helping runenrs race after they get an injury, and showing them how to maintain their runn…

Extensor tenosynovitis is one of the running injuries doctors don't often talk about simply because it's a relatively rare condition. 

But extensor tenosynovitis can be really painful when running. 

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Just this weekend, I got a call from somebody who said that she was out on a run, she felt a pop in the back of her heel, she went to the emergency room and she was told that she has a partial tear i…

Every day I talk to injured runners who ask me to help them recover faster so they can run sooner. Some runners call me for a one-time, one-hour consultation. Some runners call me and hire me to lite…

Today's episode actually comes from a question that is a real-world situation.

Should I take Lovenox after an ankle fracture? I broke my ankle. The doctor gave me a prescription. Should I take this t…

Most of the runners who call me when they are inured have hired a running coach. Some of them don’t realize they have a running coach.

A coach is someone who one who instructs players in the fundamen…

A body at rest remains at rest.

Now that is a law of physics. That's not something I came up with, but it definitely applies to running injuries.

This is what I see happen over and over and over. Som…

If you want to get back to running as quickly as possible you need 3 essential ingredients:

Recovery, Strength and Balance

When something is weaker because it is still recovering, this approach is al…

The action you and ONLY YOU take are all that matters now.

I can show you the way, but I can’t carry you there.

It takes work. Lots of work. It’s like training for a marathon, without cheering crow…

There is NO over-training. There is ONLY under-recovering. You did not run too much. You made a mistake in the order of your workouts or the intensity of one workout or in the strategy you used to re…

The premise is that your crazy physical activity is the problem.

The promise is that you will heal if you simply sit still.. long enough.

The hope is that recovery will magically take place through s…