Every day I talk to injured runners who ask me to help them recover faster so they can run sooner. Some runners call me for a one-time, one-hour consultation. Some runners call me and hire me to literally coach them day-by-day for a full month.
Others who don’t want to spend that kind of money, simply join a coaching group where they can get advice for an entire month and join group web-cam sessions every Monday Wednesday and Friday for 4 weeks in a row.
In those sessions recovering runners get to pick my brain to see what they might be able to do to recovery faster and get back on course sooner.
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about why some runners should never pay for advice.
A body at rest remains at rest.
Now that is a law of physics. That’s not something I came up with, but it definitely applies to running injuries.
This is what I see happen over and over and over. Somebody gets a stress fracture, they go to the doctor, the doctor takes an X-ray, they don’t see a crack. They don’t see anything on the X-ray. And they say, “Well, I don’t see anything, but you have a stress fracture.” Here’s a boot, wear it for four weeks, we’ll see you in a month. Come back and we’ll do another x-ray.
You leave there thinking, “Wait a minute, you didn’t see a crack. You didn’t see anything. In fact, I’m not even so sure that you know it’s a stress fracture, because you said there was no crack on the X-ray yet you gave me a boot and you told me to sit around for a month and then do another X-ray. Like, what does that mean?”
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about running injury truth number five, a body at rest tends to remain at rest.
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I can show you the way, but I can’t carry you there.
It takes work. Lots of work. It’s like training for a marathon, without cheering crowds or medals.
The speed with which you return to running ONLY depends on how much effort you put into your recovery.
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about how no one can save you.
I just did a telemedicine call with a runner who had a very interesting complaint. This was heel pain and heel pain in itself is not really interesting, because most of the people who get heel pain have plantar fasciitis, but this was one of those cases where somebody had heel pain that was not plantar fasciitis, and was definitely something else.
I actually had this exact same problem myself during the last year. I work at a standing desk, I record podcasts at a standing desk, I do Zoom calls with all kinds of people, all kinds of different meetings.
Most people who get plantar fasciitis, or bursitis, or a partial rupture of the plantar fascia, or even a stress fracture in the heel bone, they generally get it only in one foot, but this pain was pretty much the same in both feet.
Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about aching pain in the heels from standing at a desk during the pandemic.
On this episode, we’re just giving you a quick tip on how you can actually reduce some of the stress and strain on the plantar fascial ligament when you have plantar fasciitis and you want to keep running.Now everybody knows, if you stop running you’re going to lose your running fitness. That’s not really confusing. That’s not hard to understand. But what you really need to understand is that plantar fasciitis is not really self-limiting. It does not miraculously go away like a cold virus. It hangs around if you continue to aggravate it because the stress and strain to the plantar fascia that makes it irritable and causes this condition called plantar fasciitis, is a consequence of excess stress and strain. Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about repositioning your heel bone so you can run with 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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