In this podcast episode we’re talking about one of my favorite false beliefs. It’s that rest equals recovery. This sort of makes sense to most people, but then runners get confused and wind up calling me for second opinions because they’re still a little confused when they hear this. Rest equals recovery. That’s what we’re talking about today on the Doc On The Run podcast.
View Details »In this episode we’re talking about whether or not you can’t run just because you got a running injury and this is a thing I hear all the time from injured runners. 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. They say, “My doctor said I can’t run because I got a running injury. Does that make sense to you?” Well, that’s what we’re talking about today on the Doc On The Run podcast.
View Details »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 get an overtraining injury and you’re trying to recover, but you’re not getting better fast, you need to stop and evaluate. The biggest problem I see with most injured runners is that they half do the recovery. You stop running. You stop working out. All you do is sit around. You are waiting and waiting and waiting to heal. But all of that waiting puts injured runners in a dangerous place. Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we’re talking about the slippery slope of running injury recovery.
View Details »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 that you should consider surgery for a plantar plate sprain. The first reason surgery makes sense is you tried everything else and nothing non-surgical will work. But you have to be honest about your non-surgical attempts. Here are some examples I often hear from injured runners.” I used the fracture boot a little bit, but had to take it off to drive. “I “sort of taped the toe.” I used some pads, “but I’m not sure if they are in the right spot. “You have to be honest with yourself about those treatments before you can say that you failed those treatments. that. But when you have clearly failed all of the non-surgical treatments and you cannot get better, then and only then does surgery makes sense. Should a runner have surgery for a plantar plate injury? That’s a great question and that’s what we’re talking about today on the Doc On The Run podcast.
View Details »I was recently doing a webcam call with an injured runner who wanted to know whether or not he should try to work on his running form. He got injured and he started to get better. But the injury kept coming back. He was in a cycle of yo-yo healing. Better, then worse, then better again. After a big race he got a lot worse. His question was whether or not working on his running form might help halt the recurring running injury cycle. Should an injured runner work on running form? Well, that depends and that’s what we’re going to talk about today on The Doc on the Run podcast.
View Details »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 shocked and horrified when the doctor says, “Well, not only do you have a stress fracture in that bone, it looks like you’ve got a stress fracture in another bone as well.” If you think this stress fracture might have spread well, it could. But not the way an infection would spread. There is a way that stress related inflammation in a neighboring bone can spread after getting the original stress fracture. Can a stress fractures spread from one bone to another? That’s a great question and that’s what we’re talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.
View Details »I was just on a call with an injured runner who’s been having trouble for a couple of months. He wanted to know what to do next. The very next step in most cases is getting baseline numbers so you can figure out where you really are with your fitness, your injury, and your recovery…or lack thereof. You’ve got to take an honest inventory! 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. Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about taking an honest inventory when you’re a runner with an injury who’s trying to get back to running.
View Details »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, what you did, and what it feels like now. There are a couple of really common things causing pain in the top of the foot in runners. Let’s talk about two common causes. It may be either a tendon or a nerve on the top of your foot. Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about how a runner can tell tenosynovitis from neuritis in the top of the foot.
View Details »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. But if you ran 50 miles you are not normal. If you signed up for a marathon, you’re not normal. If you are a runner, you are not normal. Don’t think you will be told you’re normal when you are injured, in pain, but still working out. But that’s exactly what all the rapidly recovering injured runners do. I call them injury hackers. Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about how injury hackers are not normal.
View Details »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 can happen if you spend way too long in a fracture walking boot or a cast. Mary replied and basically said, “Great. Now you depressed the crap out of me. Thanks. Ugh.” Realizing that you have lost fitness to the point of atrophy can be really upsetting for any runner. Well, I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you, and that’s what we’re talking about today on the Doc On the Run podcast.
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