059. Running Injuries - What are the most important factors? A group discussion with Tom Goom, Greg Lehman & Dr Christian Barton

How can you identify the most important factors involved in your patients running injuries? During your rehabilitation of runners, which is most important to address - load, gait pattern, strength, foot strike, pelvic position, footwear, range of movement or other factors?

I wanted to discuss and debate these issues with a number of Physiotherapists that treat and research running injuries, so I have a very different format for you on this episode of the Physio Edge podcast - a group podcast.

On this podcast, we have Tom Goom, Greg Lehman and Dr Christian Barton all in one virtual room discussing and debating the merits of the various approaches to running injuries.

In this episode of the Physio Edge podcast David Pope and the group discuss:

• When is it ok for your runners to continue running, and when do they need to stop
• Common myths around running retraining
• When is it important to change your patients foot strike?
• Which patient presentations and pathologies will be assisted with running retraining?
• How can you identify a suitable running load during rehab
• How can you incorporate running retraining into your rehab
• Which areas are important to running assessment
• How can you manage training load strength and conditioning
• When are plyometrics appropriate during rehabilitation
• Other factors that impact injury prognosis and duration
• What advice can you give new runners
• Which footwear should runners wear?

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Tom Goom

• Running Physio website 
• Tom on Twitter 
• Tom Goom's website & courses 
• Tom on Facebook Live

Greg Lehman 

• Greg Lehman's website 
• Twitter
• Facebook

Dr Christian Barton 

• Twitter
• LaTrobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Blog

Papers mentioned in this episode

• Is there an economical running technique? A review of modifiable biomechanical factors affecting running economy

• Influence of step length and landing pattern on patellofemoral joint kinetics during running

• The training-injury prevention paradox: should athletes be training smarter and harder?

• Optimising strength training for running and cycling endurance performance: A review

• A negative life event impairs psychosocial stress, recovery and running economy of runner

• Running shoes and running injuries: mythbusting and a proposal for two new paradigms: preferred movement path and comfort filter

• The effectiveness of exercise interventions to prevent sports injuries: a syatematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

• Chronic psychological stress impairs recovery of muscular function and somatic sensations over a 96-hour period

• Frontal plane kinematics of the hip during running: Are they related to hip anatomy and strength?

• High eccentric hip abduction strength reduces the risk of developing patellofemoral pain among novice runners initiating a self structured running program: a 1 year observational study