Doc On The Run Podcast

I was talking with an injured runner who had a stress fracture in the second metatarsal bone.

He was working hard to get it to heal faster. He had gone through the stress fracture course for runners,…

I have recently had a rash of runners with navicular fractures. 

The navicular is a bone that is right on the top of your foot, in front of your ankle and it's also at the apex of your arch.

Navicula…

I was on a second opinion call with a runner. She developed a stress fracture in her accessory navicular bone.

If that wasn’t enough, she then started having pain in her arch in the tendon that pulls…

Jones fracture is a scary injury if you are a runner.

If you have been diagnosed with a Jones fracture and want to start running sooner, you must understand the severity.

Can a bone scan help you tel…

If you get a stress fracture in the fifth metatarsal, there are a couple of reasons why you might want to sleep in a fracture walking boot.

Your goal is to keep the total amount of stress applied to …

If you get a metatarsal stress reaction or a metatarsal stress fracture your doctor may order medical imaging to figure out how bad it really is. 

Your doctor's goal is to really figure out if it is …

You have a couple of options when you get injured. 

One option is to wait so long that you know for a fact it has to be healed enough that it can withstand the forces of running. 

The other option is…

Whenever you consciously give your brain direction, your subconscious brain will go to work to achieve it.

Your subconscious mind is not just controlling things that you want to happen but it's contr…

Which do you think is worse, a stress fracture or a stress reaction? 

Well, since a fracture is a crack and a reaction is just inflamed and irritating, you probably think stress reaction. However, it…

I was just on a call with an injured runner who is about to go out for a test run. 

She is very excited because she is going to get either a yes or a no on deciding if the tissue in her foot that is …

What if you were ramping up for several years to run 100 miles, but then you got tendinitis?

If you start getting pain because you have been doing lots of hill repeats, you could get irritation of th…

If you get pain on the top of your foot because you irritated the extensor tendons, they can be very painful. 

A runner asked me recently about using athletic tape to heal extensor tenosynovitis.

Sin…

Yesterday I was at the Twin Cities Foot and Ankle Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota. The reason I was there is I was invited by the Minnesota Podiatric Medical Association to come and give a one-hour…

Today's episode comes from a running injury from Jamie. He wanted to know about hallux rigidus. 

He asked:

“Are there any non-surgical approaches to helping hallux rigidus when you are not a good can…

I often get some questions from listeners I would never imagine. 

I just got one of those questions from a runner who has a mallet toe. 

Her doctor suggested surgery. The runner was worried because s…

Today's episode comes from a question posted on one of the YouTube videos, specifically on an episode called, “Should I get an MRI to see if I can run now?” 

Haitham wanted to know:

“Would you say it…

I was on a call this morning with a former professional Ironman triathlete. This guy is the real deal. He is not lazy. 

He is not unmotivated. He is not unathletic. He is a top tier kind of athletic …

I got a question from a runner with a fibular stress fracture.

She said her primary care doctor got r x-rays of the fibula bone.

The doctor could not tell from the x-rays if the spot on my fibula tha…

I was on a call with a patient who was a professional Ironman triathlete. He had a tibial sesamoid stress fracture.

The sesamoid bones are little bones underneath your big toe joint. They are kind of…

I was just lecturing at the International Foot and Ankle Foundation meeting in Hawaii. 

In the very first talk, I asked one of the doctors sitting on the front row, 

"What is your most important ques…