Doc On The Run Podcast

Today's episode comes from one of the YouTube videos and it was specifically a comment that someone posted on one of the videos that was called “Five worst exercises for hallux rigidus”.

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I'm not going to tell you that any runner should want to use crutches. I'm also not going to tell you that you will enjoy wearing a fracture walking boot.

But there are reasons that you may want to d…

Most of the runners I see who have pain in the ball of the foot from a plantar plate sprain rarely start out with a completely torn plantar plate tear. 

More often, runners ignore the pain from the p…

Sometimes when you get injured and have to stop running, you start to lose your identity.

One of the things that I notice most in runners who have gone weeks or months without running, is they are re…

I just had a consultation with a runner who had foot pain that she thought might be a stress fracture that had been coming and going for about a month. 

She had been increasing her training volume an…

Just this morning, during the live Stress Fracture Masterclass I had an interesting question. 

The story went like this. An athlete who is a State ranked high school cross country and track, had to s…

Let's say you had an ankle injury a long time ago. 

You sprained the ankle when you were out on a trail run, it got better , and you went right back to running.

But over time, you slowly got more and…

I recently saw a runner who thought that he might have a tibial stress fracture. But it turns out, it was just shin splints, which of course is good news. Because you don't really want a tibial stres…

If you got pain on the ball of the foot, at the base on the 2nd, and you have been running in a minimalist shoe,  running uphill, doing lots of calf raises, or running on steps, you could have an inj…

If you roll your ankle on a trail run and it turns black and blue and swollen, you may think you just have to take a few days off. 

In fact, if you research how long it will take to get back to runni…

Last night, I was doing a consultation with an athlete who had a fracture when she accidentally kicked a piece of furniture. 

Her foot was swollen, it was black and blue. The foot was really painful …

If you're out on a run, and you have heel pain that suddenly hurts a lot, you may have a calcaneal stress fracture, especially if you see bruising and swelling.

If you go see a doctor, they take an x…

Last night, I was doing a consultation with an athlete who actually broke one of her toes and her main question was:

Can I compete in four weeks? I have a competition in four weeks, I want to compete…

Yesterday, I went to an appointment with a friend who had an appointment with an orthopedist. 

She had 3 fractures. She wanted to know what she could do in terms of activity while she's healing and r…

Yesterday, I was doing a consultation with an athlete who broke one of her toes when she accidentally kicked a piece of furniture.

If you fracture your toe, and you just run and ignore it, it can tur…

If you're a runner with heel pain you may think you have plantar fasciitis. But if it is not getting better, your heel pain may be caused by "neuritis."

I was just giving a lecture to a group of phys…

I recently did a consultation with a runner who had gotten a plantar plate injury. He had been getting better by using some of the tricks I teach in the Plantar Plate Course For Runners. 

He got bett…

I was just at the International Foot & Ankle foundation meeting in Lake Tahoe listening to a lecture given by a Professor of Biomechanics and Podiatric Medicine at Barry University.

He said that a co…

I just had a conversation with a runner who has a plantar plate injury. 

He got the plantar plate sprain trying to build his uphill running strength in preparation for a trail race. 

This is no rooki…

Taping is one of the oldest and simplest ways to treat foot pain and injuries to the toes, feet and ankles.

There is a specific way to take your ankles after an ankle sprain so you can start running …