Doc On The Run Podcast

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.

No one can save you

The action you and ONLY YOU take are all that matters now.

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.

Running injuries can happen to everyone

There is NO over-training. There is ONLY under-recovering. You did not run too much. You made a mistake in the order of your workouts or the intensity of one workout or in the strategy you used to rebuild tissue.

That is EXACTLY the same mistake runners make when they get injured again after “healing” an injury.

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re taking about running injuries can happen to everyone.

The advice to rest is a lie

The premise is that your crazy physical activity is the problem.

The promise is that you will heal if you simply sit still.. long enough.

The hope is that recovery will magically take place through sacrifice like a perverse form of penance for your exercise sins…crazy.

But a prescription of 100% Rest only guarantees 100% loss of fitness. 

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we're talking about the advice to rest is a lie.

Is Muscle Atrophy Reversible?

If you're a runner with a running injury, you need to listen up. 

The biggest problem with running injuries is not that you have a broken bone, not that you have a sprained ankle, and not that you have Achilles tendinitis. 

The biggest problem is that you're going to lose your running fitness while you recover from that injury, if you're not really proactive.

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we're talking about muscle atrophy, and whether or not it's reversible.

#1 Cause of Confusion in Runners

I was recently doing a presentation about how runners go wrong. 

They know all of this stuff about training, running biomechanics, running form and nutrition. And that's not enough.

Runners still get injured and have to call me...even after they've seen other doctors.

Today, on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we're talking about the number one cause of confusion in injured runners. 

How can a runner tell athlete’s foot from contact dermatitis?

This episode comes from Amanda who wanted to know how to tell the difference between contact dermatitis and athlete's foot. 

It's summertime, she's been running, her feet sweat a lot, and she noticed a bunch of peeling skin on her feet. 

She assumed it might be athlete's foot, but one of her friends said it might be dermatitis.

This is a great question! 

How can a runner tell athlete's foot from contact dermatitis? 

Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc on the Run podcast.

Check your shoe when you have pain!

This episode actually comes from a visit with a runner where I was asked to check her foot. 

This runner happens to also be a physician. 

She assumed that she was having plantar fasciitis because she had some pain in her heel when she was running, and after her run, she would have a little bit of pain when she was just walking around.

Because she was having this occasional weird twinge of heel pain, she asked me to see what I could figure out.

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we're talking about how you really need to check your shoes whenever you have pain from running.

 

 

Blister causes in runners

I know blisters are not really an exciting topic. 

But I can tell you one thing for sure, if you're running a marathon and you get a blister, it is going to wreck your performance. 

You cannot perform at your best if you're thinking about some little stinging aching pain that you're getting because of a blister, and it really can make a real dent in your training too.

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we're talking about the causes of blisters in runners.

Limb length discrepancy compensation in runners

I just spoke with a runner during a telemedicine visit who has been having some pain that is flaring up in a couple of different workouts.

He's now a little worried that he's going to wind up with something that sidelines him.

He remembered that he was told he had some kind of "limb length discrepancy." 

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we're talking about limb length discrepancy compensation in runners.