#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.

1036: The Test That Might Be Preventing Your Stress Fracture From Healing

Testing your stress fracture every day might actually be delaying your recovery. Learn why repeated pain-testing can keep you above your healing threshold—and what to do instead to get back to running faster.

#1023 When Is It Safe to Start Loading a Stress Fracture Without Making It Worse

Learn when it is safe to start loading a stress fracture, how to find the “Goldilocks zone” of bone
stress, and how runners can return to activity without causing a setback.

Only 2 Questions Needed to Run a Marathon with a Metatarsal Stress Fracture

If you’re training for a marathon and develop a metatarsal stress fracture, you may not need a long
list of restrictions. In this episode, we discuss the two critical questions that determine whether you
can maintain fitness and potentially compete without making the stress fracture worse.

#1014 No big stressors on the same structures

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, why any runner with any overtraining injury should focus on making sure there are no big stressors on the same structures. Today I was on a strategy call with an injured, but recovering runner who is trying to figure out how ramp up his workouts so that […]

#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.

#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.

#1004 5 Critical Stress Fracture Steps for Runners

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we’re talking about the five critical stress fracture steps for runners. Over the past couple of months I have done a whole bunch of stress fracture strategy calls with runners who seem to be stuck. I take notes every time I do those calls and there’re number […]

#1000 Stress Fracture Nutrition with Dr. Laura Kelly

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we are talking with Dr. Laura Kelly about Stress Fracture Nutrition for Recovering Runners. Any runner increasing mileage has to make sure that your body has the nutritional building blocks to rebuild tissue so that they can become stronger in response to their workouts. If you get […]