How to Safely Recover from Hamstring Injury Hamstring injuries are a common injury in sports that involve sprinting and rapid changes in speed1. Once you’ve suffered a hamstring injury, what do you need to do to get back up to full speed, and how long should you...
Twisted ankle – how bad is it? Xray or not? It’s the highlight of your running week: a Saturday morning trail run. But then it gets interrupted by a stumble and a turned ankle. Of course, you’ve sprained your ankle plenty of times before (you even have some...
PSA – Can common medications affect your tendons?! Recently, I saw a runner in my practice who had an MRI-confirmed muscle/tendon tear. Although this isn’t an uncommon injury for me to see, the likely cause of this runner’s injury really shouldn’t be common; but...
Run Faster Using Same Effort Run faster, with the same effort… …Is that possible? YES! Two simple cues and the right foundation make a huge difference. Let me introduce Karen: She is an experienced runner who started working with me a few...
What does my running watch or app tell me? How do you use the data? Modern life is filled and affected by technology and we are constantly being bombarded by data. From the budgeting app telling us our saving rate to our car letting us know we have a flat, these...
How Loud Do You Run? How Loud Do You Run? If you’ve read last week’s blog on how running cadence can help you reduce loading and injury risk when you run, you will be familiar with the idea that cadence and ground contact time are very strongly correlated. Longer...
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