I've been a big fan of gait retraining. I've always struggled on how to quickly teach our athletes how to change their gait. It's difficult to do in the outpatient clinic and especially if you don't have time to find to put them on a treadmill and watch their gait. So, what can you do?… Continue reading Running and Gait Retraining
Category: Running
CrossFit Injuries Part 1: Injury Research
Most runners when they get injured, do not want to hear, “maybe you should give up running.” Similarly, most CrossFit athletes do not want to hear from their physician, “maybe you should give up CrossFit.” To understand CrossFit injuries, the clinician should understand the sport itself.
Running after Injury-Changing to Forefoot Running
From my previous post, we are beginning to understand that just changing the shoes does not make you automatically run in a forefoot strike. The shoes may help, but in reality, barefoot running will naturally push you into a forefoot strike as we are not designed to run on our heel (calcaneus). So if you… Continue reading Running after Injury-Changing to Forefoot Running
Barefoot Running, Minimalist Shoes and the Next New Shoe Fad
The running shoe phenomenon propelled forward in the 70s with the iconic Nike Cortez. The shoe that Bill Bowerman made debuted in 1972 from Nike. This shoe as you can see, has a heel lift, designed to help "propel" the runner forward and to put less stress on the achilles tendon. (1) Little did Nike know… Continue reading Barefoot Running, Minimalist Shoes and the Next New Shoe Fad
Robert Oh, MD, MPH 