Running injuries & prevention

Identifying issues in your run form as well as strength and flexibility are key to knowing how to improve. After the Gait Analysis Test, book return visits to continue working towards making yourself a healthy, more resilient and efficient runner.

MAXIMIZE PERFORMANCE AND TACKLE RUNNING INJURIES

Dealing with nagging running injuries? Looking for more direction for your run form or areas to make your run healthier? Return appointments are perfect for the athlete who is looking for interpretation and direction from the Gait Analysis or Return to Sport Tests.

Services included in these return appointments:

  • Manual work including joint mobilizations and myofascial release

  • Dry needling

  • Strength training

  • Stabilization training

  • training plan advise and programming

  • Advise on shoe wear and orthotics

  • Taping and shoe insert modifications

  • Gait cues for corrections and gait retraining

  • Run drills and ways to improve technique

Injuries commonly worked on:

  • bone stress injury

  • FAI and anterior hip pain

  • hamstring strains and proximal hamstring tendinopathy

  • Achilles tendinopathy

  • Plantar fasciitis

  • Runner’s knee (or patellofemoral pain syndrome)

  • ITB pain syndrome

  • lower back pain

  • muscle strains (including quad and calf)

  • ankle sprains

  • post surgical repairs of hips, knees, ankles/feet

  • lateral and posterior hip pain (including piriformis syndrome)

  • SI joint pain

  • medial knee pain

  • mid - upper back and neck pain while running