My Running Doc
Running injury advice, prevention, training strategies for endurance runners, marathon runners, and triathletes. Created by San Francisco Bay Area's award winning Podiatrist, foot surgeon and Ironman triathlete, Dr. Christopher Segler, who specializes in sports medicine, podiatry, and reconstructive foot and ankle surgery. We offer Podiatry House Calls in San Francisco for athletes and busy professionals.
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Sunday, September 12, 2021
Running too much is not a crime !
Fracture walking boots are often over-prescribed for running injuries.Too much time in the Fracture Boot Prison can kill your running fitness fast. Runners have to think about injuries differently and take action to run sooner. This video is an invitation to a web class will show injured runners how to figure it out right now and get back to running faster.
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Friday, August 20, 2021
Running Injury Truth #5
Thursday, August 19, 2021
Running Injury Truth #4
RUNNING INJURY TRUTH #4:
There are 3 Ingredients required for rapid recovery from running injury
If you want to get back to running as quickly as possible you need 3 essential ingredients:
1. Recovery - of the injured piece of tissue.
2. Strength - of everything else that supports and protects that one injured piece of tissue.
3. Balance - (I’m not talking moderation here) You need to get your running form back beginning with balance. Stronger neuromuscular connections are like free speed. With better balance, you can run farther with less fatigue, less fatigue means better form. Better form means longer distances before something gets overloaded.
When something is weaker because it is still recovering, this approach is all the more important.
NEWSFLASH: you can work on recovery, building strength, and better balance at any stage of injury.
Get moving now!
Check out the 12 Steps to Recovering form a Running Injury
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Running Injury Truth #2
here is NO over-training. There is ONLY under-recovering.
You did not run too much! You made a mistake in the order of your workouts. Or the intensity of one workout. Or in the strategy you used to rebuild tissue.
That is EXACTLY the same mistake runners make when they get injured again after “healing” an injury.
There are 2 Groups:
Those who beat themselves up for doing the wrong thing.
Those who are simply afraid and get immobilized by uncertainty.
Either way: FORGIVE OURSELF and GET OVER IT.
You won’t get back to running sitting around get weaker. Accept that you are a runner and you got a running injury.Try to figure out what you did wrong…what you can differently now…..and get moving….don’t let your injury keep you on the couch!
Monday, August 16, 2021
Running Injury Truth #1: The advice to rest is a lie.
RUNNING INJURY TRUTH #1: The advice to rest is a lie.
The premise is that your crazy physical activity is the problem.
The promise is that you will heal if you simply sit still..long enough.
The hope is that recovery will magically take place through sacrifice.
Kinda like a perverse form of penance for your exercise sins…crazy.
But a prescription of 100% Rest only guarantees 100% loss of fitness.
Check out the 12 Steps to Recovering form a Running Injury
doc on there run . com / 12 steps
Thursday, March 4, 2021
The safest path to healing is often the slowest for runners.
Many times doctors look at you cross-eyed when you tell them how much you run, how far you run and how much you want to run now. They tell you that you ran “too much” and got injured. The snap recommendation is to stop running.
Doctors want you to heal your running injury. Many times doctors recommend the “safest” path…stop running. Be patient. Wait for healing.
Slower treatment is not always better, and isn’t even always safer.
The goal for most injured runners is not to just heal the injury.
The goal for most recovering runners is to get back running.
The critical piece is to not lose sight of what “not running” does to your longevity as a runner. Time is of the essence.
Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast we're talking about how the safest path to healing is the slowest.