Preventing Injuries and Maximizing Performance.

With a lot of running injuries stemming from abnormal running mechanics, the best way to identify and correct these problems is from a thorough gait evaluation. Click here for more information and pricing.

Do you find it difficult finding a time during the week to drive to an attend an in person physical therapy session? Our virtual physical therapy sessions are a great way to receive physical therapy care from the comfort of your own home.

Do you want to know if we can help you? Take advantage of our free 30 minute consultation appointments. During this time we will ask about past and current injuries and will guide you through a series of movements to determine where the problems are. At the end we will provide recommendations for how to begin addressing your injuries.

Do you want to prevent injuries and perform better? Our injury prevention and performance program will help you appropriately target the muscle groups that are required for proper running mechanics and peak performance.

For those of you who have read part I, you may remember that I said don’t go changing your cadence until we get to the second part of this post. It was not my intention to leave you hanging this long, but here we are. What can I say, life happens and I’ll try not to do it again, but I’m not making any promises.

It would be irresponsible for me continue my posts where I left off without first taking time out to thank and honor the person responsible for the Runner’s Doc Project, Steph Van Nortwick. Some of you may not know, my wife and the mother of my children, Steph Van Nortwick, was in a fatal car accident in June 2022 and abruptly departed from our lives.

If you know what cadence is, you can skip this paragraph. For the rest of you, Merriam Webster lists two definitions of cadence that are fitting for our purposes: (1) the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity; (2) a regular and repeated pattern of activity. In music we can think of cadence as the number of beats per minute and we can apply this concept to running in exactly the same way.

I am excited to announce the launch of the Runner’s Doc website and social media accounts. I have been planning this project for some time but needed a little push from my family and friends to take the final steps to kick it off.

I bet you’ve never heard this question before, but improper or poor push off is one of the most common issues I see with runners that walk through my door. Most of the time they either cut this part of their stride short or they use improper muscles to achieve push off. So why is push off important?

Welcome back for part II of how’s your push off. If you didn’t read the first post make sure to go back and check it out. If your hip flexors are too tight it will be very difficult for you to properly use your hip extensors or gluteal muscles and this information won’t be of much use to you. For those of you who had tight hip flexors, you have hopefully had plenty of time to work on the tightness.