Doc On The Run Podcast

If you have a calcaneal stress fracture and a 100-mile race on your calendar, the question is simple… Can you still run it? In this episode of the Doc On The Run Podcast, Dr. Christopher Segler lets you listen in on a real strategy call with an ultrarunner trying to decide whether he can complete a 100-mile race in just over two months after being diagnosed with a calcaneal stress fracture. This episode breaks down the real risks, the real decisions, and the exact strategy needed to balance healing with maintaining fitness. In this episode, you’ll learn: • Why calcaneal stress fractures are especially risky for runners• The biggest danger that could permanently end your running• The 3 key signs that tell you if you're getting better or worse• How to maintain fitness without making the fracture worse• The most dangerous time before your race (when most runners make mistakes)• How to find the exact line between healing and training If you want a clearer way to assess your injury, get the free Stress Fracture or Injury Self-Assessment Worksheet at:https://www.stressfracturesecrets.com/mistake

Can you still run a race if you have a stress fracture—or will it permanently set you back? In this episode of Doc On The Run, Dr. Christopher Segler answers the most urgent question injured runners ask when a big event is approaching: can I still run my race with a stress fracture? You’ll learn how to assess risk, distinguish pain from damage, and make a clear decision without sabotaging your long-term recovery.

Today I was on a strategy call with an injured, but recovering runner who is trying to figure out how to organize his workouts to get strong quickly, without re-injuring his stress fracture. He was headed in the right direction, but was making a critical mistake when trying to do more with split workouts. It’s not about splitting workouts. It's all about the stressors that are applied to the stress out bone. But this also applies to other overtrain injuries like Achilles tendinitis, perennial, tendinitis, or plantar plate sprains. If you understand, this basic principle, you will definitely get back to running a whole lot faster! Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, why any runner with any overtraining injury should focus on making sure there are no big stressors on the same structures.

Kettlebell workouts can be a great way to maintaining strength, even if you have a running injury. If you are a runner who has an overtraining injury like a metatarsal stress fracture or a plantar plate sprain, you are probably doing everything you can to keep the rest of your running body strong, while that one injured part heals. Kettlebell training can help, as long as you don’t let those kettlebell workouts overload that injury to the ball of the foot. You have to pay close attention to form and technique. Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we're talking about Kettlebell mistakes and modifications for injured runners.

The half-ass boot routine is no good. Slow improvement with unnecessarily increased risk of atrophy, weakness, stiffness, loss of neuromuscular connections, and destruction of your running form. Your running form, your strength, your flexibility, all protect you from another overtraining injury. When you wear a fracture walking boot for a long time inconsistently, or a long time walking on it, you're going to get more of those bad things. The other thing that is good, the sort of polar opposite of that, is a half-ass weight routine. Whaat is that? And more importantly, why would that be good? Today on the doc on the Run podcast, we're talking about half boot versus half weight when you're recovering from a running injury.

This morning I was on a consultation call with a runner at 4:30 a.m. and he's been suffering from a plantar plate injury. But he's been doing pretty well. He actually just finished his first run! Now, what I asked him about was his plan for his next run. What he said, made me uneasy. It seemed risky, and I started kind of squirming as he was describing his plan to me. It wasn't really a bad plan. It wasn't really a crazy plan. But based on all the experience I have working with injured runners, I knew it was riskier than it needed to be. And this is why I decided to record this episode. Because it happens to almost every injured runner! So don't let it happen to you! Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we’re talking about why runners get re-injured one to two months into healing.

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast we are talking about Mental Rehab for Recovering Runners with Mental Skills Coach Carrie Jackson. It may sound dramatic, but in reference to doctors casually telling runners they just cannot run a race (when maybe the runner could run), or worse…they may never run again, Carrie says, “These doctors have no idea the trauma they are causing to the runner by saying that.” Carrie co-authored “Rebound: Train Your Mind to Bounce Back Stronger from Sports Injuries.” So, she is not just empathetic toward runners, she is 100% qualified to help runners get your mojo back after a serious injury sets you back physically, and the pain of recovery sets you back mentally. Not only is she a Certified Mental Performance Consultant through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, but Carrie is also the host of the Injured Athlete’s Club Podcast. If you have an injury, and you feel down. There is a solution. Listen in to Carrie, and you will find it.

Over the past couple of months I have done a whole bunch of stress fracture strategy calls with runners who seem to be stuck. I take notes every time I do those calls and there're number of steps that all of them seem to be missing. Let's face it, if they weren't missing some critical steps, we would've never gotten on a call to try to figure out a strategy to get them back on the path to healing and running again. In this episode I'm going to explain the five critical stress fracture steps every runner should take if they really want to get back to training and back to running as quickly as possible. Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we're talking about the five critical stress fracture steps for runners.