This episode comes from a live group coaching call where recovering runners get to ask me anything they want.

Today on the doc on the run podcast we're talking about whether or not you can get a stress response in your good foot when you're wearing a fracture walking boot on your bad foot to treat a stress fracture.

Today's episode comes from a live Q&A. We hold these sessions for runners enrolled in the self-diagnosis courses, and those in group coaching sessions, who just want to make sure that they're staying on track and getting back to running as quickly as possible.

We were talking about why injured runners should ask better questions. 

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we're talking about how to ask better questions at the doctor, for an over-training injury.

This episode actually comes from a recent live Q&A I did with recovering injured runners and during these calls you can come on and you can ask me anything that you want about your specific situation. 

I recently did an episode where I was talking about the causes of black toenails in runners after long runs, and I got a lot of comments and questions about, "Well, what should I do?"

We did talk about a couple of different things during that episode, where I was telling you how to check and make sure that you have sufficient space at the end of the shoes, that your running shoes aren't just too small or how to make sure that if you do have a lot of room in the shoes or if it seems like they're big enough.

But if those two things are not your issue, then it's more likely that when you're swinging your foot through, during what we call the swing phase of gait.

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we're talking about the top three tips to avoid getting black toenails from your long runs. 

I just had a discussion with a runner during a telemedicine second opinion.

She rolled her ankle and went to the emergency room. They gave her a brace to stabilize the ankle and an ACE wrap to compress it. 

She started some rehab exercises, and frankly she improved a lot.  

But when she got back to running, she had intermittent pain in the back of her ankle.

This was not the same spot where she got the sprain. 

She called because this pain has now been going on for a long time, and when she got an x-ray someone told her she might have a posterior process fracture of the talus. 

She asked me, "What exactly is a posterior process fracture?"

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast we're talking about posterior process fractures of the talus. 

Today's episode comes from a discussion during a recent television fitness segment interview where I was actually asked about black toenails in runners.

If you've been running for a long time, undoubtedly you've had this happen at least once. I've had it happen multiple times.

I realized, after many years of racing, that if I did any run longer than about 20 miles, and I didn't do some specific things to really provide care for my nails and protect them, I would wind up with one of my second toenails bruised, discolored and painful.

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we're talking about the top three reasons runners get black toenails after long runs and races.

This was a great question from a runner enrolled in the metatarsal stress fracture course. She wanted to know whether or not a bone stimulator would really be helpful. 

Can a bone stimulator help a stress fracture? 

Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run podcast. 

I was just on a telemedicine call with a recovering runner. He asked me about different forms of training that he could do to maintain his running fitness, while he fully healed the injury.

He asked a question I get all the time, "Is cycling really helpful or not?" 

Well, the short answer is yes, it is very helpful for several reasons.

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we're talking about whether or not cycling will help maintain your running fitness while you're injured and recovering.

This episode actually comes from one of the live Q&As I did with course members who are actually enrolled in courses like the Plantar Plate Sprain Course for Runners or the Metatarsal Stress Fracture Course.

"One of my friends said that I could get an injection to help my planter plates sprain heal faster. What is that injection?"

Today on the Doc on the Run podcast, we're talking about what kind of injections might help a plantar plate injury.

This is a question sent in by a listener to the Doc On The Run Podcast and this is someone who's had a stress fracture, and it's now turned into what the doctor called a delayed union.

She said, "My doctor has told me that my stress fracture is now a delayed union. What does that really mean? What is a non-union? What's a delayed union?"

Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.