What is compensation from over-training running injury?

----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 injured structure by “compensating.”

But the reason compensation is a problem is that if you think about holding your foot in an uncomfortable and natural position, what you're doing is you are strengthening one thing and you're stretching and weakening something else.

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we're talking about compensation from over-training running injuries.