Young Runner Overcomes Chronic Knee Pain to Achieve Competitive Success Client Profile High school cross country athlete, age 14, aspiring to compete at a high level while managing chronic knee pain. The Challenge A promising young runner faced significant obstacles to her athletic development: Persistent chronic knee pain affecting training and racing Unable to consistently …
Greatest Risk Factors for Stress Fractures in Runners and What To Do About Them: Too Fast, Too Quickly When you add in speed training too quickly or increase your speed overall, it can be too fast for your bones to adapt. Most often, runners with a bone stress injury will present with pain 3-4 …
First of all, what is asymmetry in running gait? It is a difference from side to side in how much push off motion you have on one side vs the other, or how much your hip drops when you land on one side vs the other side. Every single joint angle that I measure can …
It has long been thought that running is so natural that you just know how to run from an early age. While this is true in many instances, our modern lifestyles can train children to have a less than ideal running gait. Where running may have started out perfectly in some children, by the …
Some winters we have to deal with bitter cold, freezing wind, ice covered trails and lots of snow! It’s these winters that can make us stronger – as long as we train appropriately. Here are some suggestions for how to train outside safely and most effectively when the weather is working against us. If you …
This is a brief video gait running analysis of a marathon runner with right calf, left hip and low back pain with running. In this video, you will see how her running gait causes her pain and how to fix the pain through video running gait analysis.