Doc On The Run Podcast

Can I Run With A Stress Fracture In The Heel Bone?

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we’re talking about whether or not you should run when you have a stress fracture in the heel bone.

The first thing to think about is like what is a stress fracture in the heel bone. The heel bone is an irregular bone. It’s an odd shape. It’s not tubular. It’s not square. It’s very thin on the outside and it’s sort of squishy on the inside. It’s kind of like a sponge. It’s really kind of like a hard boiled egg. A hard boiled has a hard shell on the outside and if you drop it cracks but it does not really deform and that’s usually what happens with heel bone when it actually fractures. If you drop it hard enough it will completely explode and the shell bursts outward in a bunch of little pieces and then we have to go and try to put it back together.

What we do is we actually put a plate and a whole bunch of screws to suck all those pieces together but it is never perfect. It is never the same again like a real fracture in the heel bone like that where it exploded is no good.

In this session I’m going to explain to you about whether or not it’s a good idea and how you might be able to run with a stress fracture in the heel bone.

Can I Run with a Partial Rupture of the Plantar Fascia?

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re going to talk about whether or not you can run with a partial rupture of the plantar fascia.

Can I run my race if I have a partial rupture of the plantar fascia? Well that’s a question I’ve got in a number of times from runners who’ve been to the doctor, they thought they have plantar fasciitis, they were told they had a partial rupture or a tear in the plantar fascia and then they want to know if they can do their race.

In this session we’re going to explain how you can decide whether or not you really can or should run when you have a partial rupture in the plantar fascia.

How 2 Days in a Fracture Walking Boot can Help you Decide If You Can Run a 100 Mile Race

That may seem like a silly thing like you think if you’re wearing a fracture walking boot, there’s no way you're going to run a hundred miles. But there is a patient I just had a consultation with yesterday on the phone and we were talking about this because she's actually signed up for a one hundred miles trail race, she wants to do this ultramarathon and she's having a problem.

The task is to figure out really is it safe for her to do this run which is a hundred miles basically a month away or not. So we have a long talk about this and it was really interesting because she's very smart. She's had a couple of injuries over the years. She totally understands running. She’s a multiple sort of level endurance athlete. She has had a number different races, she has done lots a races and all kinds of races, strictly running, triathlon, all kinds of events and so she knows a lot about the process.

In this lesson we’re talking about how a couple of days in a fracture walking boot can actually help you decide whether or not you might be able to run a hundred miles.

Can I Run with a Metatarsal Stress Fracture?

Stress fractures are extremely common. But first thing is that if you’re going to figure out how to run the race, if you should run the race, whether or not it’s a good idea to run a race, you have to really understand what really is metatarsal stress fracture.

Doctors want to put everybody in the same little bucket of “You have a metatarsal stress fracture. You can’t run.”  That’s not true at all. In fact I have had lots of patients who have actually had not only done an Ironman but I had one that actually had her fastest Ironman ever, four weeks after she was diagnosed with a metatarsal stress fracture and she was told to wear a boot for six weeks.

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we’re talking about whether or not you can run your race if you have a metatarsal stress fracture.

Can I Run with Plantar Fasciitis?

Can I run my race if I think I have plantar fasciitis? That’s a good question. In this session what we are going to talk about is whether or not you can or should run if you think you have plantar fasciitis.

A lot of doctors tell you stop running if you have plantar fasciitis. Well, the idea is that you’re stressing the plantar fascia when you’re walking on it and of course when you’re running. 

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we’re talking about whether or not you should run when you think you have plantar fasciitis.

How a Runner Got His Physical Therapy Aimed at His Running Goals

Today on the doc on the run podcast we’re talking with Patrick about how to stay on track when you see a doctor or physical therapist and make sure that they focus on your running goals.

The main reason I wanted to have him on the podcast today is he actually had this experience with physical therapy that can help people understand how to better get your physical therapists and doctors more on track with your goals instead of just focused on the injury.

Can I Run With Peroneal Tendonitis?

One of the million dollar questions I get from runners is whether or not you can run when you have this specific injury. Just today I was on a remote consultation call on Skype with a runner who is an ultramarathoner. He is training for a huge trail race in the Dolomites and he wants to be able to run.

Well it turns out that he got a little bit peroneal tendonitis, he got some pain and swelling around the ankle and it was starting to bug in. So his big question is “Can I do the race if I have peroneal tendonitis?”

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we are going to talk about whether or not you should run with peroneal tendonitis.

 

Why Doctors Tell You to Stop Running

I think when a doctor tells a runner to quit running it doesn’t make any more sense than telling an accountant to quit working with numbers. Running is what we do. And running should be the goal. You have to work with a doctor who will help you get back to running. And no matter where you are, you should be able to find a doctor who will help you heal AND get back to running.

I talk to runners all over the world. Of course most of them are injured runners. The main reason injured runners call me when they want to get answers to all of their questions is they are frustrated by doctors who tell them to quit running.

In this podcast we’re talking about the five main reasons doctors tell you to stop running.

4 Types of Injured Runners Who Won’t Get Back to Running Quickly

Healing takes time. The longer you take to recover the more fitness you’re going to lose. But when you’re an injured runner the less time you spend healing the sooner you are going back to running. So we all want to heal as quickly as possible.

When doing virtual doctor visit consultations with patients over the phone or via webcam, just about every patient who comes to me for running injury advice is trying to figure out how to get better faster.

After many years of working with runners I have identified a few types of runners who seem to take a lot longer to get better. So it may help you to think about each of these different types of runners who don’t get back to running as quickly as possible and see if you have any these characteristics yourself.

In this episode we are talking about 4 types of injured runners who won’t get back to running quickly.

5 Plantar Fasciitis Treatments Your Doctor is Selling and Runners DON”T Need!

If you are a runner with plantar fasciitis, you don't need to watch hundreds of different videos to get better. You just have to do some simple things at home consistently and your heel pain will go away. If you do the right things, but you’re not getting better, then the chances are good you probably don't have plantar fasciitis and have been misdiagnosed.

Runners are so frequently misdiagnosed with plantar fasciitis that I even wrote an entire book on Runners Heel Pain that you can get on Amazon. Even after I wrote the book on heel pain, runners kept calling to schedule virtual doctor visit consultations on Skype where they can actually talk to me and ask me questions. I pretty quickly realized they were all asking the same questions about what I do to diagnose and treat runners when I see them in person.

In this podcast episode we’re talking about 5 Plantar Fasciitis Treatments Your Doctor is Selling that Runners DON’T Need!