Doc On The Run Podcast

Today's episode comes from a runner who asked me a very interesting question during a surgical second opinion webcam call.

She seemed to be really confused because the doctor had recommended performi…

Last week, I was in Hawaii lecturing at the International Foot & Ankle Foundation Medical Conference. meeting.  

I had been invited to give several lectures on running injuries. One of those was abou…

Plantar plate injuries in runners are a common topic at medical conferences because they cause a lot of pain in the ball of the foot. 

I just spoke to a runner who had an interesting question about p…

Today I was on the call with an injured runner who is trying to figure out how soon she can start running. She had been having pain and she was getting relief by taking over-the-counter medication. S…

Today I was doing a consultation with a runner who has a thing called an "accessory navicular."

She thought that the bump was much more swollen than normal. 

She had basically rolled her ankle and b…

Okay...I'm just gonna say it...lots of runners get funky toenails. Runners get bruised toenails, black toenails. 

But the worst thing  is when the nail lifts up off the nail bed and you get fungal fi…

If you start getting pain in the ball of the foot, especially in the area between the metatarsals, it might be caused by a little fluid-filled sack (called a bursa) that sits between the metatarsals.…

I have recently gotten a bunch of questions on one of the episodes I did where I mentioned somebody who had a stress fracture, and I had suggested that she should increase her cadence to try to decre…

This episode comes from one of the YouTube viewers on the Doc On The Run YouTube channel and he posted a question as a comment on one of the videos, and he wanted to know, how can I tell if I broke t…

Today's episode actually comes from a comment posted on one of the Doc On The Run YouTube videos.

The viewer asked, and he said exactly, “I dropped a piano on my foot. Will I run again?”

Well, that d…

A runner who has been recovering from a plantar plate sprain was on a webcam call just to follow up and ask me some questions about her first runs now that she is returning to running.
 
She wanted t…

This episode is a really good example of the confusion that comes from Jones fractures, and this was hosted as a comment on the Doc On The Run YouTube channel on a video that was entitled, “What is a…

I was recently on a follow-up call with a runner who is recovering from a calcaneal stress fracture.

She was doing really well, the stress fracture was healing, and her heel pain had completely resol…

If you get a metatarsal stress reaction, you might be confused for a number of reasons. First You are probably trying to figure out whether or not it is really just a subtle stress fracture or, if it…

I just got a really obscure question from a runner suffering from chronic stress fractures. 

She was asking about a surgical procedure called a tibialis anterior tendon lengthening in order to addres…

If you sprain your ankle, you know that you need to protect it. 

The old treatment algorithm used to be R.I.C.E.: rest, ice, compression and elevation.

The newer protocol is P.R.I.C.E.: protection, r…

Sometimes runners have to do a whole lot of digging trying to figure out the difference between a couple of different surgical solutions for a recurring injury. 

Pain under the big toe joint can be b…

I got a call from a worried runner who had a stress fracture. 

The fracture was not healing so he called for a second opinion. 

One of the things that he did not understand was this x-ray report that…

The plantar plate ligament that gets injured in runners is typically located on the bottom of the foot, at the base of the second toe. 

It gets inflamed, it gets irritated, it may feel weird at first…

I got a call from a runner who had a stress fracture that was not healing, who needed a second opinion. 

When we were on the webcam call, one of the things that he did not understand was the specific…