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I was doing a second opinion webcam consultation with a runner who noticed a lump in the calf muscle. The knot in the leg wasn't limiting his running. In fact, when he was running, this lump in the calf muscle felt better, not worse. So, yo
Today I am about to drive to the airport, get on a plane, fly to Wisconsin to give five lectures on running injuries at a medical conference.As I was finalizing that talk on medical imaging strategies for athletes, I was thinking about a conve
I know. You don't want plantar plate surgery. But if your plantar plate ligament doesn't repair itself, or your doctor doesn't help it repair itself, you might get talked into surgery. If you have plantar plate repair surgery, you may spend a
This episode comes from a question posted by one of the Doc On The Run YouTube viewers as a comment on the video “Where to run with plantar fasciitis.”In the video, I was trying to explain which surfaces can help you the most when you're tryin
There are three ways that a doctor might convince you that it's really time to have surgery and fix that plantar plate ligament that's been making you miserable when you've been trying to run. To you, it may not seem that bad. It kind of aches
Today's episode comes from one of the YouTube videos and it was specifically a comment that someone posted on one of the videos that was called “Five worst exercises for hallux rigidus”.This came from Matt and he asked:"When can you start doi
I'm not going to tell you that any runner should want to use crutches. I'm also not going to tell you that you will enjoy wearing a fracture walking boot.But there are reasons that you may want to do things a little differently if you're a run
Most of the runners I see who have pain in the ball of the foot from a plantar plate sprain rarely start out with a completely torn plantar plate tear. More often, runners ignore the pain from the plantar plate sprain and it evolves into a ful
Sometimes when you get injured and have to stop running, you start to lose your identity.One of the things that I notice most in runners who have gone weeks or months without running, is they are really bummed out. These runners seem really g
I just had a consultation with a runner who had foot pain that she thought might be a stress fracture that had been coming and going for about a month. She had been increasing her training volume and doing strength exercises that are supposed
Just this morning, during the live Stress Fracture Masterclass I had an interesting question. The story went like this. An athlete who is a State ranked high school cross country and track, had to suddenly stop running due to intense pain that
Let's say you had an ankle injury a long time ago. You sprained the ankle when you were out on a trail run, it got better , and you went right back to running.But over time, you slowly got more and more pain in the ankle. In that case, you d
I recently saw a runner who thought that he might have a tibial stress fracture. But it turns out, it was just shin splints, which of course is good news. Because you don't really want a tibial stress fracture. Shin splints is much easier to tr
If you got pain on the ball of the foot, at the base on the 2nd, and you have been running in a minimalist shoe, running uphill, doing lots of calf raises, or running on steps, you could have an injury to a little bitty ligament called the pla
If you roll your ankle on a trail run and it turns black and blue and swollen, you may think you just have to take a few days off. In fact, if you research how long it will take to get back to running, you might find a study that says that if
Last night, I was doing a consultation with an athlete who had a fracture when she accidentally kicked a piece of furniture. Her foot was swollen, it was black and blue. The foot was really painful and she couldn’t walk on it. She went to urg
If you're out on a run, and you have heel pain that suddenly hurts a lot, you may have a calcaneal stress fracture, especially if you see bruising and swelling.If you go see a doctor, they take an x-ray, and they don't see anything at all but
Last night, I was doing a consultation with an athlete who actually broke one of her toes and her main question was:Can I compete in four weeks? I have a competition in four weeks, I want to compete. Do you think I'll be ready? Well, I actual
Yesterday, I went to an appointment with a friend who had an appointment with an orthopedist. She had 3 fractures. She wanted to know what she could do in terms of activity while she's healing and recovering from these different injuries. I j
Yesterday, I was doing a consultation with an athlete who broke one of her toes when she accidentally kicked a piece of furniture.If you fracture your toe, and you just run and ignore it, it can turn into a painful nonunion (non-healed fractur
If you're a runner with heel pain you may think you have plantar fasciitis. But if it is not getting better, your heel pain may be caused by "neuritis."I was just giving a lecture to a group of physicians getting their continuing medical educa
I recently did a consultation with a runner who had gotten a plantar plate injury. He had been getting better by using some of the tricks I teach in the Plantar Plate Course For Runners. He got better, he was protecting it, he reduced the stre
I was just at the International Foot & Ankle foundation meeting in Lake Tahoe listening to a lecture given by a Professor of Biomechanics and Podiatric Medicine at Barry University.He said that a cortisone injection can be used as a "stop gap
I just had a conversation with a runner who has a plantar plate injury. He got the plantar plate sprain trying to build his uphill running strength in preparation for a trail race. This is no rookie mistake. He is a longtime ultra marathoner
Taping is one of the oldest and simplest ways to treat foot pain and injuries to the toes, feet and ankles.There is a specific way to take your ankles after an ankle sprain so you can start running earlier. If you have a plantar plate sprain
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