Doc On The Run Podcast

A tight Achilles tendon can cause a variety of problems for runners. A night splint is a brace that is supposed to help stretch a tight Achilles tendon by holding the foot in a corrected position whi…

As soon as you sign up for a marathon you start to think about what it will take to finish it. You come up with a plan. You design a series of of workouts. And you realize you are going to have to su…

Last week I was lecturing on running injuries at a medical conference.  A doctor in the audience asked, "What do you do exactly when a runner tries to renegotiate their activity level with you, the d…

How long before I can run on a metatarsal stress fracture?

The short answer is this, you can run as soon as the metatarsal bone has healed enough, becomes stable enough, to withstand the stress you a…

If you want to get back to running sooner, you have to figure out a way to maintain the maximum level of activity your healing tissues can withstand without causing any further damage and without imp…

Is it dangerous to run on a stress fracture? Stress fractures are one of the most common problems runners get when over training. When injured, stress fractures can keep you off running for a really …

If you get pain and swelling in the ball of the foot you might become worried you have a fracture. Let's face it. When runners get an aching pain in the foot at the first thing we worry about is prob…

You get a running injury because you made a mistake in over-training. You tripped over something. You did just a little too much in your workout. Something went wrong. It was an accident. 

But healin…

If you're not moving, you're more injury-prone. If you got an over-training injury from running, and you're not moving, if you're not exercising, things are actually getting worse for you. You are ac…

Faster means faster! It means making decisions quicker. Forward means you and your doctor are making decisions more frequently so you can shorten the recovery time and make it to your next race. 

So …

The key with recovering from running injuries faster than normal patients is to identify what it is helping your healing, and what may be hindering your recovery. Runners don't choose the rate of rec…

How does healing change on a weekly basis? It's going to continue to change throughout the healing process from day to day. No, it's not going to change a great deal in one day, but it's going to cha…

Why do runners heal faster? Simple...You are not a normal patient if you're a runner.

Not only do you exercise more, you eat better, you sleep better. You as a runner are a well-primed healing machin…

Today on the Doc on the Run podcast, we're talking about the number one book every runner should read in 2019.

I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm going to recommend the number one book you n…

Today we're talking about whether or not you should run when you have pain about 10 days out from a marathon. 

This morning I got a call from Amy in Houston, and she's running a marathon in 10 days. …

The purpose of a taper, is to …

I’m recording this episode right around the start of the New Year, and this time of year everybody starts talking about their goals. Most people talk about where they want to be. What they want to ac…

The idea that one given treatment will work for one condition, when the people are different is absurd. 

Runners are different than normal people. 

Risks of certain treatments are much higher for run…

This question comes up a lot for runners with Achilles tendon injuries. But it can happen with any kind of tendon. The difference between an injury to a tendon which has been labeled "tendonitis" ver…

Let me ask you a question. Do you set goals when you are training for a race? What about when you are injured? I mean let’s face it, if you are training for a marathon you probably have a really spec…