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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Diastasis Rectus The Rectus Abdominis is your “six pack”. It’s the big front muscle of your abdomen. When you are pregnant, as your baby (or babies!) grow, your uterus gets bigger and eventually pushes out against the rectus abdominis muscle. Sometimes, that pressure is so strong, the uterus is so large and/or the abdominals are not …
Do you feel like your black toenails are a necessary part of running? They don’t need to be! There are many different causes for black toenails – some are due to your strength, mobility, flexibility and running gait, and some causes are due to how your shoes fit. Here we will go over the most …