Doc On The Run Podcast

I was on a call with an active athlete who is recovering from a couple of different injuries and her main goal is to get back to running at high intensity.

But while she has been injured and she cann…

When you have a plantar plate injury, it can be frustrating. The whole problem stems from a tiny little ligament right at the base of the second toe that is getting irritated, stretched, and strained…

I get lots of calls from runners who need a second opinion for running injuries like metatarsal stress fractures.  Many times they are confused by medical terminology in their imaging reports. 

In th…

I was just on a call with a trail runner who is recovering from both a sesamoid bone injury as well as a peroneal tendon injury.

Right now she is focusing on working toward running on long technical …

If you are a runner and you got diagnosed with a plantar plate sprain, you probably already figured that out plantar plate sprains can be frustrating.

The plantar plate ligament is on the bottom of t…

Today's episode comes from a question that I got during a second opinion webcam call with a recovering runner. 

She is running, she is doing fantastic, and she wanted to know if she should hire a run…

Today's episode comes from a question posted in the comments section of one of the Doc On The Run YouTube channel videos. 

Specifically, it came after a viewer watched the video entitled Top Three Cl…

I was just on a follow-up webcam call with a runner who has chronic ankle instability but wants to get back to running on trails.

She is trying to decide when it is safe for her to make the transitio…

If you are a runner, and you have pain in the ball of the foot, and you have been diagnosed with a plantar plate sprain, you probably already realize you are in for a lot of trouble. 

It is very diff…

What if I told you that you could skip two days and avoid an overtraining injury altogether? 

Well, if you are injured, you would probably go back and skip any two days I picked on your calendar, rig…

Today's episode comes from a question that was posted as a comment on one of the videos on the Doc On The Run YouTube channel about the difference between a stress reaction and stress fracture in the…

I was just on a follow-up call with a trail runner who has chronic ankle instability. She had some follow-up questions about some of the exercises I gave her to do.

Gluteus medius weakness is known t…

I was just on a webcam call with a runner who had a plantar plate injury. 

We were reviewing her MRI. And one of the first things I did was check to see how big the slices were on the MRI.

That's bec…

I have a great question from a runner who was injured and is now recovering. 
 
She is getting better, she is back to running, she is advancing her mileage, she is increasing her strength, and her st…

Last night I was on a follow-up call with a trail runner who had chronic ankle instability. She was working hard to get strong enough to run on trails without worrying about rolling her ankle. 

One o…

I was recently on a second opinion web cam call with a runner who had a plantar plate injury.  One of the things we were talking about as was managing the inflammation in the joint next to the sprain…

I just got off a second opinion consultation call with a runner who called because he thought he had a stress fracture, and he asked a great question... 

He said, “Well, I don't get it. It hurts ever…

Have you ever had a toenail turn black and blue, and maybe even got so much of a bruise that the toenail fell off?

A lot of runners think of bruised toenails as a badge of honor for doing super long …

One of the questions I often get from runners is whether or not they can get a clear indication that the overtraining injury has healed enough that they can start running. 

This is most common with s…

I was just on a call with an injured runner who had what she thought was a stress fracture.  We were talking about the way bone stress injury shows up on an MRI. We all would like to believe MRI crea…