Doc On The Run Podcast

I just got off a telemedicine call with a woman who was an elite runner in college.

She has been having a difficult time getting back to an acceptable level of activity after recovering from her over…

If you over-stretch any nerve it can become inflamed and painful.

If you roll your ankle on a trail you can get a condition called traction neuritis.

Most of the time when I am on a telemedicine or s…

If you hire a running coach, your coach is going to design a program that is going to actually test you physically and mentally, and push you to your physiologic limits on a regular basis to make you…

Osteophytosis is a common finding on foot and ankle x-rays of runners. Bone spurs can form anywhere bone is irritated or otherwise aggravated by jamming, jarring motion. 

Most often, osteophytosis is…

The biggest mistake any runner can make when seeing a doctor for a running injury is leaving the office without a clear picture or how bad the injury actually may be. 

If you don’t have a clear idea …

The chances are good a lot of your friends secretly admire your ability to run. Unfortunately it seems a lot of people who want to start running, but don't think of themselves as runners find it very…

I am sure that you have heard your running buddies use an analogy: 

"We just banked another long run.” 

“We got another hard workout in the bank.” 

All these efforts and investments in our training a…

Snowboarder’s fracture is a small fracture in your foot that is often misdiagnosed as an ankle sprain. 

The injury occurs when you break a portion of the talus bone called the lateral process. 

The l…

Many times doctors look at you cross-eyed when you tell them how much you run, how far you run and how much you want to run now. They tell you that you ran “too much” and got injured. The snap recomm…

A runner with a stress fracture called me for a telemedicine visit because she was confused. 

The doctor told her that she has a stress fracture. But there was no crack on the x-ray. 

The doctor said…

If you're not actually healing as fast as you want to it is just not a priority. 

I talked to a runner the other day who said that he was trying to lose some weight, but he already felt like he was o…

The sesamoid bones, these two little bones and they sit under the big toe joint and interestingly when I show X-rays to someone like somebody who has a stress fracture almost always the first thing t…

The only thing worse than a running injury is a re-injury. 

Most of the runners who call me for a telemedicine visit are demoralized. 

You get inured. A doctor tells you to stop running so you can he…

I recently got a great question from a runner...

Why are flat feet less stable when you run?

Pronation of the foot happens as your arch collapses and the foot elongates. You do that every time you la…

One of my best friends has pain and swelling in his Achilles tendon, right in the watershed region that we know develops Achilles tendinosis and can even rupture.

He was understandably worried. He as…

----more----When you get any kind of over-training injury, something also incredible happens. You limp.

You compensate to remove all of the pressures and forces and friction that goes through that in…

I was recently doing a call with an athlete who has a sprain of the plantar plate ligament. 

One of the things that happens with runners is we get an MRI, sometimes just for what we suspect is a plan…

We always want obvious signs when we are healing form something like a metatarsal stress fracture, Achilles tendinitis or peroneal tendinitis or any injury that is keeping his from training as much a…

I was just talking to a runner in one of the sessions where people call in who are taking the One Run Away challenge. In that challenge course, I'm helping you try to figure out what is the step tha…

I was just doing a telemedicine visit with a runner who has had an injury to the plantar plate ligament with pain for months. 

He's been getting better slowly, but he was trying to figure out how bad…