#1043 When Too Much Healing Becomes a Stress Fracture Problem

A huge bone callus can look like a stress fracture has healed, but sometimes it signals too much motion – or
leaves a runner with a new problem even after the fracture is stable. Learn why too much healing can become
a problem.

1042 Can You Still Run Your Race With A Broken Toe?

Can you still complete your race after breaking a toe? Learn the two biggest risks runners must avoid and the strategy Dr. Segler uses to help athletes decide whether it’s safe to continue training and racing.

#1013 Worst thing about walk run routine after running injury

The Walk-Run Routine is likely the most overprescribed and least understood plan for returning to running after an overtraining injury like a metatarsal stress fracture for a plantar plate sprain.

But the commutative forces that result from that specific routine may put your foot at unnecessary risk of re-injury. Understanding how and why those unique stresses happen may help you make better decisions about your first few runs after you feel your stress fracture or plantar plate sprain has healed enough to resume running.

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about the worst thing about walk run routine after running injury.

#1012 Kettlebell mistakes and modifications for injured runners

If you are a runner who has an overtraining injury like a metatarsal stress fracture or a plantar plate sprain, you are probably doing everything you can to keep the rest of your running body strong, while that one injured part heals. Kettlebell workouts can be a great way to maintaining strength, even if you have a running injury. But, you have to pay close attention to form and technique. Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about Kettlebell mistakes and modifications for injured runners.

#1011 Which weekday is best to add workouts for injured runners

This morning I was on a webcam call with a runner who had healed a fracture and started running again. He has been running every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, with cross-training in between.

Now he is ready to add a fourth running workout to his weekly training schedule.

The question is:

“What day of the week is best to add an additional run, because I want to make sure I don’t overload the healing tissue and re-injure it.”

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about which weekday is best to add workouts for injured runners.

#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 […]

#1008 Why runners get re-injured 1 to 2 months into healing

This morning I was on a consultation call with a runner at 4:30 a.m. and he’s been suffering from a plantar plate injury. But he’s been doing pretty well. He actually just finished his first run!

Now, what I asked him about was his plan for his next run. What he said, made me uneasy.

It seemed risky, and I started kind of squirming as he was describing his plan to me. It wasn’t really a bad plan. It wasn’t really a crazy plan. But based on all the experience I have working with injured runners, I knew it was riskier than it needed to be.

And this is why I decided to record this episode. Because it happens to almost every injured runner! So don’t let it happen to you!

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we’re talking about why runners get re-injured one to two months into healing.

Back to running after 2 metatarsal stress fractures at same time with Alexandre Dufresne

  Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast we are talking with Alexandre Dufresne about his journey and getting back to running after having suffered 2 metatarsal stress fractures at same time!     If you’re a runner with a stress fracture you’re probably wondering what it will take to get back to running […]

#998 Is it normal for a fracture to be visible on x-ray after 50 days?

Is it normal for a fracture to be visible on my x-ray after 50 days? Well, that is a great question and that is what we’re talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.     Hussein asked me a really interesting question. He said, “I fractured my tibia and fibula. Is it […]