Doctor’s job vs. Runners job in healing overtraining injury

Every time a runner calls me who signs up for a consultation and they want a second opinion, they have already seen a doctor and they are often very frustrated. 

They are very frustrated because they were in a boot for a long time and it did not help, or they were told to not run for months, and it did not help. 

I hate to tell you this but almost every time I talk to one of these runners who is justifiably truly upset because the doctor did not listen to them about their goal.

But the problem is that every one of these runners I talk to, there is something that they did not do that they could have done to make this go faster and a lot of that comes down to communication between you and the doctor and it is critical that you understand this.

What is the difference between the doctor's job and the runner's job when you have an overtraining injury? 

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