This podcast is for injured runners. Those who have been told (or worry) that running is at the root of their trouble.
If you are listening to this podcast you’re probably a runner. And you have probably been told by your friends, your family and maybe even your doctor that running is the cause of your trouble and that you need to run less.
But deep down inside you don’t just like running you feel like you have to run in order to be healthy, fit and sane. This podcast simply helps injured runners understand their condition better, and keep running.
He was actually explaining what he was getting in terms of muscle soreness and we discussed whether or not it was really…
What exactly is primary repair of the planter plate? Well, that’s a surgery where we actually go in and sew it back together. We fix it. We repair it.
When other doctors ask me what I do, I tell them rather simply I help runners figure out how to stay fit, hang onto their running fitness and get…
You could have bone surgery, you could have ligament surgery, tendon surgery, or joint surgery and of course, when you have an injury to only…
The worst patient, the worst runner to call me for a second opinion is someone who has been in a fracture walking boot or not running for 12 weeks or so. Why is that so bad?
If you are a runner and you’re thinking about surgery, you’re probably maybe thinking about a second opinion, but maybe just doing your initial research, but some doctor has probably already…
Some of the wishes are things like, well, I want to run. The second one is I don’t want there to be a crack on my x-ray. Some facts are, well, my podiatrist took an x-ray and there was no crack.
This is a really important thing to understand. There’s two different kind of procedures. They both have different risks and benefits, and we’re going to talk briefly about…
When you get a second opinion, bias is the worst possible thing, because it’s very difficult for a doctor to change their mind once they think they know what’s going on.
I think t’s really helpful if you’re really frustrated, you’re really demoralized and you’re in this very vulnerable place where…
There’s a reason doctors don’t give you permission to run, and there are really four ways that you can tell, ways you can…
A couple of years ago Martha was on the podcast talking about how hip arthritis has impacted her running and how…
This is the thing I came up with when I actually was thinking about what I do differently with runners now that I’ve been for about a decade…
The heel pain was in a little bit of an unusual area, the heel pain wasn’t exactly on the bottom, the heel pain wasn’t exactly…
Gary’s not just an incredible athlete but he’s also a personal development expert. Today were really fortunate to have him back…
Let’s say you have this aching pain in the ball of your foot. You’ve been running and when you run, you get some sort of weird aching…
The thing is, and what I was telling them is there are a few things that I use as protocols. When I say my protocol or a doctor says protocol…
If you’re a runner and you think you have a grade five stress fracture because your radiology report said that or some doctor told you…
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The way that I thought about this episode today is that I just got off the phone, I was on a consultation with a runner and…
He was going through the plantar plate course and he was actually trying to figure out what to do, and he was going to…
I recently got a call from someone who had a son who was in cross country and he’s been having some trouble. He’s had several weeks of not running…
Believe it or not, most of the time when I see a runner, either on webcam or in their home, and they have shin splints…
One of the doctors asked me about how I make these decisions and I explained to them was that the worst piece of advice I myself ever…
If you get a tibial stress fracture, the chances are really good that the doctor’s going to do something to really restrict your running…
A fracture walking boot is one of the simplest and most-often-prescribed treatments for overtraining injuries in runners and although fracture walking boots maybe inexpensive…
I talk to injured runners all the time. I lecture at medical conferences, teaching doctors what I do with runners who have these plantar plate injuries and…
At the beginning of that lecture, I was asking the group of doctors there and I said, “Well, if you had a runner with a fourth metatarsal stress fracture and they had this level of pain…
I just got off the phone with a runner who had a plantar plate sprain. He was out on a run…
One of the most important points I was trying to make to the doctors in that session was that fitness is transient.
Injuries can happen in this spot for lots of different reasons. Regardless of the plantar plate sprain cause, the unfortunate reality is this…
Then there are other runners I see who are basically demoralized and depressed because they’re stuck in a rut.
I got a question from a runner who’s had a metatarsal stress fracture who’s very frustrated, who’s trying to figure out…
But injured runners call me for a second opinion when they are told that complete rest is essential to recovery from a running injury.
They call me because they’re frustrated because they’re runners, they got a metatarsal stress fracture, or a plantar fasciitis, or a plantar plate ligament sprain, or Achilles tendonitis.
A running injury is always bad. No runner is ever happy to have a stress fracture or to have plantar fasciitis or Achilles tendonitis…or something worse.
If you are a runner with a plantar plate injury, it is pretty easy for a doctor to make a convincing sales pitch on surgery. There are a couple of reasons…
I was recently doing a webcam visit with an injured runner and he wanted to know whether or not he should try to work on his running form…
One thing that’s really demoralizing if you get a stress fracture is to spend a bunch of time in a fracture walking boot and then go get something like an MRI and be…
The whole key to getting recovered as quickly as possible is letting the injury heal…while you work to maintain your running fitness so that you can get back to running faster.
If you’re a runner with running pain on the top of the foot, it could be lots of different things. The actual diagnosis depends on what happened…
If you’ve got an overtraining injury, but you’re trying to figure out how to stay fit, a lot of people are going to think that you’re not normal.
I just saw a comment on our YouTube videos from a runner named Mary. She viewed the video on permanent calf atrophy, and how that…
If you’ve been diagnosed you with a Jones fracture, you’re probably really worried right now because you may have been told you might wind up in surgery.
This may seem like a crazy question when you first think about it, because skiing seems like a high stress activity. But I have had lots of runners who…
The difference between elite athlete who get better fast, and average runners who take forever to recover are the daily activities they focus on while recovering.
Let’s say you’re out on a run and you start noticing this weird aching pain in your foot and so you suspect you have a metatarsal stress fracture. I often get consultation calls…