Today’s episode actually comes from something I read in one of the running forums where someone actually was saying that they were confused. They had been to see a couple of different doctors and had a couple of different recommendations because they had heel pain. 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 on the back and it was sort of in the middle, right at the back of the heel where it curves around and they wanted to know what to do. Is it plantar fasciitis or insertional Achilles tendonitis? That’s what we’re talking about today on the Doc On The Run podcast.
View Details »I had a really great question from a patient on a second opinion webcam visit.
“I have a partially torn plantar fascia. Can I keep running and let it heal later?”
He had purchased The Runner’s Heel Pain course and based on his self-diagnosis, he concluded that he definitely did not just have plantar fasciitis. It was more likely plantar fasciosis with a small tear in the plantar fascia.
Unfortunately, the treatment that we would normally do and normally recommend for somebody with a partial tear in the plantar fascia, well, he just cannot do right now. He does not have time to actually take off of his activity and stop running completely right now.
Today on the Doc On the Run podcast, we’re talking about Torn Plantar Fascia: If I run can it heal it later?
View Details »A runner just asked a great question about when runners should get a plantar fasciitis injection so she can run.
If you’ve signed up for the Runner’s Heel Pain Course, or you’ve listened to the podcasts on Runner’s Heel Pain about plantar fasciitis in runners, you’ve probably heard me say that I don’t inject most runners with cortisone when they have plantar fasciitis.
The way I break it down is that it depends on one of three different scenarios.
“Should I get a plantar fascia injection so I can run?”
That’s what we’re talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.
View Details »This episode comes from a medical conference last week.
I was asked to give a couple of different lectures on running injuries at the International Foot and Ankle Foundation meeting in Sonoma, California.
One of the sessions was about runner’s heel pain and the differences between normal everyday patients and runners.
Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about the top five differences between normal patients with heel pain and runners.
View Details »I was just doing a telemedicine call with a runner with a long history of plantar fasciitis, that has not been getting better. She had been doing stretches, icing, and even an injection of corticosteroids around the plantar fascia.
We were doing a second opinion telemedicine call to talk about what’s really going on. We talked about her whole history. She had been keeping track and has kept a pain journal.
During this one hour second opinion call, we figured out that she had been misdiagnosed.
We figured out she actually had bursitis on the bottom of the heel.
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about plantar heel bursitis, misdiagnosed as plantar fasciitis.
View Details »A partial rupture of the plantar fascia can be a truly debilitating injury for a runner.
It’s much worse than plantar fasciitis. You take time off. It starts feel better. Then you run and it starts to feel worse again.
Because it can be so frustrating it becomes very easy to convince yourself that you need surgery.
In fact I was just having a conversation with an athlete who started to talk himself into surgery, even though he has absolutely no desire to have surgery one the plantar fascia.
His story highlights how easy it is to become frustrated, and how to overthink a mild setback in your recovery.
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast were talking about how a runner with a plantar fascia rupture talks himself into surgery
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When plantar fasciitis first starts, doctors call that an “acute case” of plantar fasciitis.
Acute plantar fasciitis (which just started) should be treated differently than chronic plantar fasciitis (that has been around for months).
There are 2 common mistakes runners make with plantar fasciitis.
There are also 3 things runners should so do right when plantar fasciitis begins if you really want it heal and get back to running as quickly as possible.
If you do everything right, you should notice a huge improvement in just a few days.
Today on the Doc on the Run podcast, we’re talking about first aid for plantar fasciitis in runners.
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View Details »Subscribe: iTunes | Android Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re going to talk about whether or not you can run with a partial rupture of the plantar fascia. Can I run my race if I have a partial rupture of the plantar fascia? Well that’s a question I’ve got in a number […]
View Details » Subscribe: iTunes | Android Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we’re talking about whether or not you should run when you think you have plantar fasciitis. Can I run my race if I think I have plantar fasciitis? That’s a good question. In this session what we are going to talk about […]
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