Everybody wants to believe that there is some best practice, some standard of care, some safest way for you to heal when you get a metatarsal stress fracture or achilles tendinitis or peroneal tendinitis or plantar fasciitis or any other common overuse training injury when you're a runner.

But there is nothing that is risk-free. 

Nothing is free in medicine. 

It's not free in terms of costs, and it's not free in terms of risk. And for most runners, the risk part is the bigger part of the equation.

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we're talking about how there’s is no healing for a runner without risk.