If you suffer a severe running injury, some doctors will give you crutches to speed up the recovery process.

Healing any running injury is a race against time. 

All overtraining injuries will eventually heal.

But if you take a long time to heal, you're going to lose a lot of running fitness. You will get weaker, stiffer and develop a loss of coordination.

That loss of fitness will make it very difficult for you to achieve your running goals after you fully recover. The goal isn't to heal. The goal is to run without re-injury.

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we're talking about the best and worst ways to stop crutches if you're an injured runner.