#1015  How much can I walk with a tibia stress fracture

  Podcast  Show Notes Episode Title: How Much Can You Walk With a Tibial Stress Fracture? Podcast: Doc On The RunHost: Dr. Christopher Segler Episode Overview How much walking is safe when you have a tibial stress fracture? In this episode of Doc On The Run, Dr. Christopher Segler answers a common and critical question […]

#1010 Half boot versus half weight when recovering from running injury

The half-ass boot routine is no good. Slow improvement with unnecessarily increased risk of atrophy, weakness, stiffness, loss of neuromuscular connections, and destruction of your running form. Your running form, your strength, your flexibility, all protect you from another overtraining injury.

When you wear a fracture walking boot for a long time inconsistently, or a long time walking on it, you’re going to get more of those bad things.

The other thing that is good, the sort of polar opposite of that, is a half-ass weight routine.
Whaat is that? And more importantly, why would that be good?

Today on the doc on the Run podcast, we’re talking about half boot versus half weight when you’re recovering from a running injury.

Podcast #1009 Never let your recovering body compete with your racing body.

Today on the  Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about how you should never let your recovering body compete with your racing body.  This morning I was on a call with a recovering elite Masters athlete and she’s doing great!  During our call, I got worried about the way she was thinking about her […]

#1007 Suffering solution is different with running injury

Runners glorify the suffering needed to keep moving in spite of pain. And the payoff is almost always increased fitness, and improvements and mental fortitude for endurance. Think about the works we use to describe running and training for endurance events:  Enter the Pain Cave!  Glorious suffering.  Embrace the suck.  Surviving a work out.  The […]

#754 Single most effective but most neglected tool to run earlier after injury

Almost all runners who call me for a consultation have one thing in common.

The number one thing they want to get out of their discussion with me is “How can I start running sooner? I want to get back to running so I don’t lose all my running fitness.”

There is one free and highly effective tool you can use as an injured runner, but most of the runners I talked to seem to be completely neglecting and ignoring it.

What is the single most effective but most often neglected tool injured runners can use to get back to running sooner?

Well, that’s what we’re talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.

#462 Think of injury recovery as an expanded rest day

I was just doing a second opinion consultation with a runner who was really stressed out.
She said, “I’m going to lose all my aerobic fitness. I’m going to get weaker. I’m going to get stiff or my running form is going to be terrible!”
There are some mental tricks you can use that will be very helpful anytime you get an over-training injury, whether it’s a stress fracture, Achilles tendonitis, or any injury.
If a doctor tells you, you have to rest and sit still, that can be stressful. But all runners have the tools to navigate it, whether you have ever been injured or not.
Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about how you should think of your over-training injury recovery, as an extended rest day.

#449 3 Ingredients required for rapid recovery from running injury

If you want to get back to running as quickly as possible you need 3 essential ingredients:
Recovery, Strength and Balance
When something is weaker because it is still recovering, this approach is all the more important.
NEWSFLASH: you can work on recovery, building strength, and better balance at any stage of injury.
Get moving now!
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about the 3 Ingredients required for rapid recovery from running injury.

#426 Slow down if you want to speed up

I was just having a discussion with a runner about the things that she could do to accelerate her running injury recovery.

She has been yo-yoing through a cycle or workouts and short runs when she feels good, then does a little bit too much.

That’s when she gets re-injured.

She is aggravating the injury over and over. The real problem isn’t her injury. She’s just pushing her recovery too fast.

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about how you have to slow down if you want to speed up.

#407 There is no hope on a downward slope

There is no hope on a downward slope.

I know that sounds really negative and terrible, but it’s true.

A recovering runner recently called for a called me for a second opinion telemedicine visit. Her doctor had told her to wait…to wait to get better. In fact, she waited for 12 weeks and she did exactly what she was told: nothing. She did no exercise for 12 weeks.

If you just think about the last time you were really fit, and if you just stopped exercising completely, right then for three months, how fit would you be at the end of that 12 weeks?

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about how there is no hope on a downward slope.

#405 Recover. Don’t Rot.

This episode comes from a discussion I had recently with a recovering runner during a telemedicine visit. She was asking me what to do.

She is stuck in a cycle of getting frustrated, she gets better, and then gets injured again when she actually gets back to running.

She seems to have a tendency to get re-injured, with different injuries.

To recover from injury, you have to make sure you don’t rot while you wait.

Today on the Doc on the Run Podcast, we’re talking about how to make sure you recover and don’t rot when you have a running injury.