For as long as people have been running, we have been dealing with side stitches or cramps. Side stitches have been thought to be due to the stress on your diaphragm during each foot strike. During inhalation, your diaphragm moves downward, and during exhalation, your diaphragm moves upward. While the diaphragm is moving upward …
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 …
In this video I show you how real time gait retraining can change how a person runs immediately in the same session. This will allow a runner to continue training while we are also performing strengthening, mobility and manual treatment during the course of care. If we provide gait retraining initially we can keep …
Running Injury Spotlight: Stress Fractures What are Stress Fractures? Stress fractures are tiny breaks in a bone that usually occur after loading the bone in the same (abnormal) way over and over again. Stress fractures of the legs affect athletes that perform repetitive movements, especially runners. Female runners are at a higher risk for stress …
What to Eat from 3 Weeks to 30 minutes Before Your Race Everyone that has been training hard for months before a race has some of the same worries. At the top of that list: FOOD! In the last three weeks before your race, don’t change your diet drastically. You may feel an excessive hunger …
The long run can be a daunting and confusing, however absolutely necessary, task in your preparation for a half marathon or full marathon. The purpose of this article is to take some of the confusion out of planning your long run pace (and to help you put faith in your coach when they tell you …
I originally wrote this article for the American Physical Therapy Association, however, it’s good information for you, my favorite patients, to have! As many runners, cyclists and triathletes have shin splints at some point in their training, this gives you an initial guide to help control your symptoms. Medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS) is a …