One of the phrases I often tell injured runners is that “nothing in medicine is free.”

For every potential treatment that might help some particular injury, you pay for it in risk.

A fracture walking boot is one of the simplest and most-often-prescribed treatments for overtraining injuries in runners. And although fracture walking boots maybe inexpensive, treating your running injury with one is definitely not free.

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about how nothing in medicine is free especially with running injuries.