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.

I just got off of a Stress Fracture Strategy call with a real runner who has been suffering from a stress fracture for 47 days. 

Over the past five weeks she has been getting worse, not better.

And she hasn’t even been running for more than a month!

If you have a stress fracture, or a stress reaction and you are:

1. worried about canceling race because of a stress fracture

This episode will help you understand the strategies I use whenever I worked directly with runners with stress fractures, and apply those strategies to help you figure out how to speed up your stress fracture recovery.

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast we are talking with Alexandre Dufresne about his journey and getting back to running after having suffered 2 metatarsal stress fractures at same time!

If you think back about your training leading up to the 2 stress fractures, if you could go back in time, do you think there's any one thing you could have changed in your training routine that might have prevented it from developing into such a serious problem? Listen up to find out!

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast we are talking with Patrick Durante about Automatic Negative Thoughts and how they affect runners.

Many years ago I was having a discussion about daily stressors with a friend of mine name Maury. He said something I have never forgotten.

“It's not the lions and tigers that will get you. It's the ants and mosquitoes because problems.”

Every single over training injury that afflicts runners as a consequence of developing too much stress. The constant buzzing of mosquitoes and ants may drive you crazy. And Today we are talking about the creepy, crawly kind of ant, but A.N.T. or Automatic Negative Thoughts that buzz through our heads and inhibit our ability to finish races on time, complete training runs in a gratifying way, and may even may inhibit our recovery from hard workouts or over training injuries.

If you're a runner with a stress fracture you're probably trying to figure out everything you can do right now this going to speed up healing of the injured bone, so you can get back to running as soon as possible.

If you have been thinking about bone broth or nutritional supplements like vitamin D and calcium you already know how important it is to get the nutritional building blocks into your system so your osteoblast cells can't start repairing and rebuilding the crack in the bone.

Did you know there's actually a cookbook written specifically to address the nutritional requirements four building healthy bones? Well, there is…it is called The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook and in today’s episode I am getting to got to sit down with Dr. Laura Kelly who wrote that cookbook.

No matter what injury you have, it could be a stress fracture or it could be tendinitis or it could be a sprained ligament, but whatever you do you have to sure you don't get re-injured, because that could be brutally demoralizing!

Because most runners think jogging is a lot easier than “real running” you might presume it's a lot safer for you to just start jogging to test out your state of recovery.

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about why jogging is a terrible way to test the state of healing of a running injury.

Hussein asked me an interesting question. He said, 

“I fractured my tibia and fibula. Is it normal after 50 days the fracture is still visible under x-ray, but I am walking with crutches and putting partial weight bearing without any pain or discomfort? My treatment was with a fiberglass cast without any surgery since the bones were not displaced.”

Is it normal for a fracture to be visible on my x-ray after 50 days? 

Well, that is a great question and that is what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast. 

If you have a high arched foot that is prone to getting stress fractures, a podiatrist may have told you that you need cushy running shoes.

I got a question from someone who was given that advice. She said,

“I am so confused, I thought stress fractures were from pounding. I got a stress fracture, and my doc said it was my cushy shoes. I do not understand how this is true.”

How do cushy running shoes cause stress fractures in the foot? 

Well, that is a great question and that is what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast. 

I talk to lots of runners who have been given very bad advice. 

If you are reading this, you are probably a runner, and you have probably had to deal with some kind of injury that interfered with your running.

If you have seen a doctor, I am very curious to know what advice you got.

Sometimes I am curious if the "bad advice" is what the doctor said, or if it is just a misinterpretation of what the doctor said to the runner. 

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we're talking about the worst advice ever from a doctor.

Today's episode comes from Jordan, who was watching a video called “Proof you do not have to stop running with a metatarsal stress response”.

Jordan wanted to know, “Do you think treadmill at a 5% incline will take some of the stress off the tibia?”

Can a 5% incline on your treadmill reduce the stress on a tibial stress fracture? 

Well, that is a great question, and that is what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.