Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast

Michelle Barrack, PhD, RD, CSSD, FACSM of California State University, Long Beach is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Barrack is an Associate Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics and a Board-Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics. She has published research on topics addressing nutrition and bone health in youth and collegiate endurance runners and the prevalence and factors associated with dietary supplement use in athletes. Dr. Barrack…

Lace Luedke, PT, PhD, DPT of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Luedke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology with over 20 years of clinical experience. She earned her PhD in Orthopedic & Sports Science from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, her DPT from the University of Central Arkansas, and her BS in Physical Therapy from…

Carel Viljoen of University of Pretoria is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Viljoen is the Head of Physiotherapy at the Sport, Exercise Medicine, and Lifestyle Institute (SEMLI), which is an International Olympic Committee (IOC) research centre, where he mainly works with trail runners and other adventure related sports such as adventure racing. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Physiotherapy at the University…

Shefali Christopher from Elon University is our guest for this months Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Christopher is an assistant professor in the department of physical therapy. She started treating runners 12 years ago because no one else wanted to deal with the triathletes and runners, and slowly built a caseload of predominantly endurance athletes. She has spoken at several local, regional and national conferences about treating the triathlete…

Aoife Burke from Dublin City University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Aoife is an assistant professor in the Athletic Training program in the School of Health and Human Performance. After completing her athletic therapy and training degree, she worked in a private musculoskeletal clinical practice, whilst also working with some elite teams within Ireland; such as Dublin GAA and some Irish international football teams. Aoife…

Welcome to episode 40 of The Mountain Land Pelvic Health Podcast! This month, we’re sitting down with Dr. Peter Fisher to discuss prostate cancer treatments and how Physical Therapy can help. Dr. Fisher attended the University of Utah school of Medicine followed by his residancy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Michigan. He currently serves as Chief of Surgery and Director of Men’s Health services at St. Mark’s…

Isabel Sacco, PhD from University of São Paulo is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Sacco is an Associate Professor and vice-director of the Graduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences at the School of Medicine; 1B Research fellow of CNPq-Brazil (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development); and the head of the Laboratory of Biomechanics of Movement and Human Posture (LaBiMPH). Her main areas of research include…

Welcome to episode 64 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! On this month’s episode, we sit down with Richard Mayne (also known as the Moving Medic) to discuss the use of monitoring technology and injury incidence among recreational runners. Richard also discusses how the popular UK website, Parkrun, influenced his research.

Dr. Mayne is a family medicine physician in Northern Ireland, with a specialist interest in lifestyle, sport and exercise medicine. He is passionate about helping people to be less sedentary and more physically active so they can live longer, happier and healthier lives. He can be followed on social media (twitter, instagram) via the handle: @themovingmedic, as well as online at https://themovingmedic.net/

Mayne RS, Bleakley CM, Matthews M. Use of monitoring technology and injury incidence among recreational runners: a cross-sectional study. BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil. 2021 Sep 28;13(1):116. doi: 10.1186/s13102-021-00347-4. PMID: 34583747; PMCID: PMC8480020.

Welcome to Episode 63 of The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! This month, we’re going international as we sit down with Evert Verhagen, Prof. Dr. from Amsterdam to discuss how recreational runners deal with injuries. His latest paper, “I JUST WANT TO RUN: How Recreational Runners Perceive and Deal with Injuries”, was published in the September 2021 issue of BMJ Open Sports Exercise Medicine. Dr. Verhagen is a human movement…

Welcome to episode 61 of The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! Today, we speak with Sarah Dillon of Dublin City University. Sarah is a Chartered Physiotherapist and PhD candidate in the School of Health and Human Performance. Her research, funded by the Insight SFI Research centre for Data Analytics centers around lower limb injuries among recreational runners. In this episode, we examine whether or not pre-existing injuries effects a runner’s overall performance. Bryan and Sarah review factors of the DCU Running Injury Surveillance (RISC) Study including how often participants ran, their training regimen previous to the study, and where their injury was located.

Information gathered from this podcast can help clinicians in assessing patient recovery time and exercises. You can find more information about Sarah’s first output of her research from the American College of Sports Medicine’s research journal, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (MSSE).

Dillon S, Burke A, Whyte EF, O'Connor S, Gore S, Moran KA. Do Injury-Resistant Runners Have Distinct Differences in Clinical Measures Compared to Recently Injured Runners? Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2021 Apr 23. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002649. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33899779.