Why do runners heal faster? Simple...You are not a normal patient if you're a runner.

Not only do you exercise more, you eat better, you sleep better. You as a runner are a well-primed healing machine and this is the bottom line. If you think about it, if you've been a lifelong runner, what have you been doing? You go out and you train. You do tissue damage and then your body rebuilds it. So you have been teaching your body, physiologically priming that system, to heal. Your body knows how to heal. 

Today on the Doc On the Run podcast, we're talking about why runners heal faster.