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 …
Learn stage by stage progressions to identify, treat and prevent IT Band pain and get back to running! This is an ONLINE course and you have IMMEDIATE access after purchase. Learn How to Treat your IT Band Pain If you have pain on the outside of your knee with running, if you have dealt with …
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 …
Ankle sprains can occur when you’re just walking or running and “roll” your ankle. Unfortunately, getting back to normal doesn’t just happen with rest or time. Many people will need more assessment and intervention to address any mobility or muscle or ligament problems that may have happened during the sprain. Here is a bit more …
I chose Beth as the current featured athlete because she’s your typical runner – but with a twist. She spent a good year running with pain and decided to put the time and effort into addressing her weaknesses, correcting her running form and at the same time she decided upon a HUGE goal for 2014: to …
When I was Invited to The White House You read that correctly! This year I was lecturing at the American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Sections Meeting in Las Vegas, NV on (big surprise here) running. Once the lecture was over I was asked by a representative from The White House if I would be willing …
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 …