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**Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast**

The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in running medicine. Bryan Heiderscheit, PT, PhD, is the host of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast, and is widely accepted as one of the world’s foremost experts in running mechanics and injury management. During each episode, Dr. Heiderscheit and co-host Mark D. Anderson, PT, MPT, OCS delve into a specific running medicine topic while applying real world experience and research to give listeners a comprehensive take on the subject.

Latest Episodes:

**Biomechanical Risk Factors for Running-Related Injury** Jun 27, 2022

Laurent Malisoux, PhD of the Luxembourg Institute of Health is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Malisoux is the Leader of the Physical Activity, Sport & Health research group with expertise in sports injury prevention, running biomechanics, physical activity assessment and exercise physiology. He completed his PhD in 2006 at UCLouvain (Belgium), focusing on the impact of training and unloading on contractile properties of single human muscle fibres. After having worked a few years for a private company specializing in human performance evaluation, training and rehabilitation, he received a grant in Luxembourg for a post-doc project on injury prevention in youth sport. In recent years, his research has focused on the prevention of running-related injuries, as well as on the objective measurement of physical activity in the general population. He has conducted 3 randomized controlled trials investigating the effect of specific shoe features on injury risk in leisure-time runners, incorporating epidemiological and biomechanical approaches.

Malisoux L, Gette P, Delattre N, Urhausen A, Theisen D. Spatiotemporal and Ground-Reaction Force Characteristics as Risk Factors for Running-Related Injury: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Trial Including 800+ Recreational Runners. Am J Sports Med. 2022 Feb;50(2):537-544. doi: 10.1177/03635465211063909. Epub 2022 Jan 20. PMID: 35049407.
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**Dietary Supplement Use in Preadolescent Endurance Runners** May 27, 2022

Michelle Barrack, PhD, RD, CSSD, FACSM of California State University, Long Beach is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Barrack is an Associate Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics and a Board-Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics. She has published research on topics addressing nutrition and bone health in youth and collegiate endurance runners and the prevalence and factors associated with dietary supplement use in athletes. Dr. Barrack ran competitively in high school and college and currently enjoys training for local road races, cooking, and spending time with her husband and three kids.
Barrack MT, Sassone J, Dizon F, Wu AC, DeLuca S, Ackerman KE, Tenforde AS. Dietary Supplement Intake and Factors Associated with Increased Use in Preadolescent Endurance Runners. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2022 Mar;122(3):573-582. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2021.07.013. Epub 2021 Sep 14. PMID: 35195521.
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**Plank Times and Lower Extremity Overuse Injury in Collegiate Track-and-Field and Cross Country Athletes** May 02, 2022

Lace Luedke, PT, PhD, DPT of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Luedke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology with over 20 years of clinical experience. She earned her PhD in Orthopedic & Sports Science from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, her DPT from the University of Central Arkansas, and her BS in Physical Therapy from University of Wisconsin La Crosse. Dr. Luedke is a certified specialist in orthopedic physical therapy and an NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist. Her line of research involves examining risk factors for injury among high school and collegiate athletes, primarily runners. In the clinic, she specializes in evaluation and treatment of competitive and recreational runners.

Luedke LE, Rauh MJ. Plank Times and Lower Extremity Overuse Injury in Collegiate Track-and-Field and Cross Country Athletes. Sports (Basel). 2022 Mar 21;10(3):45. doi: 10.3390/sports10030045. PMID: 35324654; PMCID: PMC8955794.
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**Trail Running Injury Risk Factors** Mar 30, 2022

Carel Viljoen of University of Pretoria is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Viljoen is the Head of Physiotherapy at the Sport, Exercise Medicine, and Lifestyle Institute (SEMLI), which is an International Olympic Committee (IOC) research centre, where he mainly works with trail runners and other adventure related sports such as adventure racing. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Physiotherapy at the University of Pretoria, and an affiliate researcher with the Ultra Science Sports Foundation (France) and Health and Safety in Sports Amsterdam. Dr. Viljoen is currently completing his PhD through the Vrije University Amsterdam and University of Pretoria, studying injury risk factors and management in trail running.

Viljoen C, Janse van Rensburg DCC, van Mechelen W, Verhagen E, Silva B, Scheer V, Besomi M, Gajardo-Burgos R, Matos S, Schoeman M, Jansen van Rensburg A, van Dyk N, Scheepers S, Botha T. Trail running injury risk factors: a living systematic review. Br J Sports Med. 2022 Jan 12:bjsports-2021-104858. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2021-104858. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35022162.
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**Biopsychosocial Risk Factors Associated with Pain in Postpartum Runners** Feb 28, 2022

Shefali Christopher from Elon University is our guest for this months Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Christopher is an assistant professor in the department of physical therapy. She started treating runners 12 years ago because no one else wanted to deal with the triathletes and runners, and slowly built a caseload of predominantly endurance athletes. She has spoken at several local, regional and national conferences about treating the triathlete and runner and was the keynote speaker at the 2019 University of Virginia’s running medicine conference and the 2021 Mountain Land Running Summit. She currently practices in the ElonRUNS clinic and the athletic training room, teaches Elon DPT students and is the director of the Elon Sports PT residency program. She received her PhD from the University of Newcastle in Australia in 2021, where her thesis focused on running-related pain in postpartum runners.

Christopher SM, Cook CE, Snodgrass SJ. What are the biopsychosocial risk factors associated with pain in postpartum runners? Development of a clinical decision tool. PLoS One. 2021 Aug 12;16(8):e0255383. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255383. PMID: 34383792; PMCID: PMC8360599.
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**Foot Strike Technique and Its Classification at Impact** Jan 24, 2022

Aoife Burke from Dublin City University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Aoife is an assistant professor in the Athletic Training program in the School of Health and Human Performance. After completing her athletic therapy and training degree, she worked in a private musculoskeletal clinical practice, whilst also working with some elite teams within Ireland; such as Dublin GAA and some Irish international football teams. Aoife spent some time assisting with chronic athletic groin pain and ACL biomechanical research at the Sports Surgery Clinic in Santry, and is currently pursuing a PhD, with a focus on the kinetic and kinematic risk factors associated with running-related injuries.
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**Predictive Effect of Well-Known Risk Factors and Foot-Core Training in Lower Limb Running-Related Injuries in Recreational Runners** Dec 23, 2021

Isabel Sacco, PhD from University of São Paulo is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Sacco is an Associate Professor and vice-director of the Graduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences at the School of Medicine; 1B Research fellow of CNPq-Brazil (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development); and the head of the Laboratory of Biomechanics of Movement and Human Posture (LaBiMPH). Her main areas of research include biomechanics and rehabilitation of people with diabetes and osteoarthritis and recreational runners for injury prevention. Dr. Sacco has been honored by the Brazilian Government as one of only 22 female Brazilian scientists under 40 years of age with a recognized academic career merit.

Taddei UT, Matias AB, Duarte M, Sacco ICN. Foot Core Training to Prevent Running-Related Injuries: A Survival Analysis of a Single-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Sports Med. 2020 Dec;48(14):3610-3619. doi: 10.1177/0363546520969205. Epub 2020 Nov 6. PMID: 33156692.

Suda EY, Watari R, Matias AB, Taddei UT, Sacco ICN. Predictive Effect of Well-Known Risk Factors and Foot-CoreTraining in Lower Limb Running-Related Injuries in Recreational Runners: ASecondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Sports Med. 2021 Nov 17:3635465211056329. doi: 10.1177/03635465211056329. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34786990.

Foot core training website: www.soped.com.br
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Running Medicine Podcast Episode 63 artwork — **Monitoring Technology In Recreational Runners** Dec 02, 2021

Welcome to episode 64 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! On this month’s episode, we sit down with Richard Mayne (also known as the Moving Medic) to discuss the use of monitoring technology and injury incidence among recreational runners. Richard also discusses how the popular UK website, Parkrun, influenced his research.
Dr. Mayne is a family medicine physician in Northern Ireland, with a specialist interest in lifestyle, sport and exercise medicine. He is passionate about helping people to be less sedentary and more physically active so they can live longer, happier and healthier lives. He can be followed on social media (twitter, instagram) via the handle: @themovingmedic, as well as online at https://themovingmedic.net/

Mayne RS, Bleakley CM, Matthews M. Use of monitoring technology and injury incidence among recreational runners: a cross-sectional study. BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil. 2021 Sep 28;13(1):116. doi: 10.1186/s13102-021-00347-4. PMID: 34583747; PMCID: PMC8480020.
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**How Recreational Runners Deal With Injuries** Oct 28, 2021

Welcome to Episode 63 of *The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast*! This month, we’re going international as we sit down with Evert Verhagen, Prof. Dr. from Amsterdam to discuss how recreational runners deal with injuries. His latest paper, “I JUST WANT TO RUN: How Recreational Runners Perceive and Deal with Injuries”, was published in the September 2021 issue of *BMJ Open Sports Exercise Medicine*.

Dr. Verhagen is a human movement scientist and epidemiologist. He holds a University Research Chair as a full professor at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of the Amsterdam UMC and the Amsterdam Movement Science Research Institute. He is the Editor in Chief of *BMJ Open Sports & Exercise Medicine*, the director of the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports (one of the 11 IOC research centers), and the director of the Amsterdam Institute of Sports Sciences (AISS). His research revolves around the prevention of sports and physical activity-related injuries; including monitoring, cost-effectiveness, and implementation issues. He supervises several international PhDs and post-docs and has (co-) authored over 280 peer-reviewed publications around these topics.

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Running Medicine Podcast Episode 62 artwork — **Returning to Distance Running After an Injury** Sep 30, 2021

Episode 62 of The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast is now available! This month, Bryan and Jeremy sit down with Eric J Hegedus, PT, DPT, PhD, MHS from Tufts University to discuss returning to distance running after an injury. Info from this episode can help therapists better understand how to treat patients looking to return to competition.
Dr. Hegedus is a Professor and founding program director for the Tufts Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program in Phoenix, AZ. He previously was the Founding Chair of High Point University’s Department of Physical Therapy. He has authored over 85 peer-reviewed publications, a textbook, now in its second edition and translated into 5 languages, and 7 book chapters. Dr. Hegedus has received multiple awards including the American Physical Therapy Association’s James a Gould Excellence in Orthopaedic Teaching Award and a four-time winner of the Excellence in Physical Therapy Teaching award. Dr. Hegedus is a founder and director of Targeted Enhanced Athletic Movement (TEAM), a community-based health and wellness program designed to improve athletic performance and prevent injury in active people.
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Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast episode 61 — **Injury-Resistant vs. Recently Injured Runners** Aug 24, 2021

Welcome to episode 61 of The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! Today, we speak with Sarah Dillon of Dublin City University. Sarah is a Chartered Physiotherapist and PhD candidate in the School of Health and Human Performance. Her research, funded by the Insight SFI Research centre for Data Analytics centers around lower limb injuries among recreational runners. In this episode, we examine whether or not pre-existing injuries effects a runner’s overall performance. Bryan and Sarah review factors of the DCU Running Injury Surveillance (RISC) Study including how often participants ran, their training regimen previous to the study, and where their injury was located.

Information gathered from this podcast can help clinicians in assessing patient recovery time and exercises. You can find more information about Sarah’s first output of her research from the American College of Sports Medicine’s research journal, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (MSSE).

Dillon S, Burke A, Whyte EF, O’Connor S, Gore S, Moran KA. Do Injury-Resistant Runners Have Distinct Differences in Clinical Measures Compared to Recently Injured Runners? Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2021 Apr 23. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002649. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33899779.
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Running Medicine Podcast episode 60 artwork — **Optimal Loading for Preventing and Managing Bone Stress Injuries** Jul 26, 2021

Welcome to episode 60 of The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! This month, we’re speaking with Stuart Warden, PT, PhD, FACSM, FASBMR of Indiana University about optimal loading for preventing and managing bone stress injuries.

Dr. Warden is a Professor within the Departments of Physical Therapy, Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering; Associate Dean for Research within the IU School of Health and Human Sciences; and Director of the Musculoskeletal Function, Imaging and Tissue (MSK-FIT) Resource Core within the Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health. He has contributed over 140 publications and has a particular interest in the effects of physical activity on the skeleton. He has been awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense, and has been the recipient of awards from the American College of Sports Medicine, American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, and Orthopaedic Research Society. He currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy and Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise and is a member of the editorial board for 5 other journals.
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Running Medicine Podcast episode 59 artwork — **Middle School Distance Running** Jun 28, 2021

Adam Tenforde, MD from Harvard Medical School is our guest for this episode of The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Tenforde is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and a sports medicine physician at the Spaulding National Running Center – one of the only centers in the United States exclusively dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of running-related injuries. Dr. Tenforde has the unique perspective of being both a physician and a former professional runner who was an All-American at Stanford University where he contributed to three NCAA National Team Championships and later qualified for the Olympic trials. Dr. Tenforde’s research has focused on the evaluation of biological and biomechanical risk factors for stress fractures, tendinopathy, and other running injuries. He is also investigating how to prevent injuries in athletes.
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**Hip Strength and Prior Injury** May 28, 2021

Welcome to Episode 58 of The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! Nate Vannatta, DPT, SCS from the Department of Sports Medicine of Gundersen Health System in Wisconsin is our guest for this month’s episode. Nate is a Sports Physical Therapist and Associate Program Director for the Gundersen Medical Education’s Sports Physical Therapy Residency Program. He is also an adjunct graduate faculty member of the La Crosse Institute for Movement Science housed at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse. His research interests are largely in the area of biomechanics with a focus on running-related injuries. His clinical interests range from the management of acute lower extremity injuries to more chronic conditions such as tendinopathies and osteoarthritis.
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Running Medicine episode 57 artwork — **Achilles Tendinopathy Rehabilitation** May 05, 2021

Episode 57 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast is now available! In this episode, we discuss Achilles Tendinopathy Rehabilitation with Karin Grävare Silbernagel PT, ATC, PhD from the University of Delaware. Dr. Silbernagel has been a practicing physical therapist for over 30 years, mainly in orthopedics and sports medicine and her expertise is in the clinical aspects of tendon injury. As the principal investigator of the Tendon Research Group at the University of Delaware, she is working to advance the understanding of tendon injuries and repair so that tailored treatments can be developed. Her work has been directly integrated into the clinical guidelines with a focus on how to prescribe exercise and physical activity as treatment for patients with tendon injuries. She has presented her research at numerous conferences, and published in peer-reviewed journals (100+ published articles to date). Her research is funded by the NIH, Foundation for Physical Therapy, Swedish Research Council for Sport Science, and Swedish Research Council. She is also an Editor for Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy.
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Episode 56 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast artwork — **Hamstring Strain Injuries** Mar 31, 2021

On this month’s episode of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast, we sit down with Dr. David Opar to discuss Hamstring Strain Injuries. Dr. Opar is the Director of the Sports Performance, Recovery, Injury and New Technologies (SPRINT) Research Centre at Australian Catholic University. He has conducted extensive research into hamstring strain injuries with a particular focus on how best to identify individuals at risk of this injury and how rehabilitation practices can be improved. From his research, he also co-invented the NordBord, which is a field measure of eccentric hamstring strength. More recently, Dr. Opar has joined and contributes to the NFL Lower Extremity Soft Tissue Injury Task Force.
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**Running Postpartum** Feb 17, 2021

In this episode of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast, we host a panel of experts from around the world in the second of a two-part series on the topic of running and pregnancy. For the last topic of the series, our panel is discussing Running Postpartum. This international panel includes Rita Deering, DPT, PhD, from Carroll University, Shefali M. Christopher, DPT, from Elon University, Tom Goom (@RunningPhysio) from The Physio Rooms in England, Grainne Donnelly (@Absolute.Physio) (Bsc Hons Pg Cert HCPC MCSP Current MSc Student), and Emma Brockwell (@PhysioMum), a Specialist Women’s Health Physiotherapist.

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Running Medicine Podcast epiosde 54 artwork — **Running During Pregnancy** Jan 21, 2021

In this episode of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast, we host a panel of experts from around the world in the first of a two-part series on the topic of running and pregnancy. In this episode, we discuss Running During Pregnancy and in part two we will discuss Running Postpartum. This international panel includes Rita Deering, DPT, PhD, from Carrol University, Shefali Christopher, DPT, SCS, LAT, from Elon University, Tom Goom from The Physio Rooms in England, Gráinne Donnelly (Bsc Hons Pg Cert HCPC MCSP Current MSc Student), and Emma Brockwell, a Specialist Women’s Health Physiotherapist.

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Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast episode 53 artwork — **Should Adolescents Run Marathons?** Dec 21, 2020

Josh Goldman, MD from UCLA is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Goldman is a Health Science Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery. He cares for both Family Medicine and Sports Medicine patients of all ages, while supervising medical students, residents, and Sports Medicine fellows. Dr. Goldman is the team physician for the UCLA football, men’s soccer, and women’s water polo teams. He currently serves as the program director for the UCLA Sports Medicine Fellowship, the Associate Director for the Center for Sports Medicine at the Orthopedic Institute for Children, and the Associate Director for Sports Medicine within the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program. He has previously served as team physician at the United States Olympic Training Center, the Association of Volleyball Professionals Tour, and USA Hockey. Dr. Goldman’s research interests include concussion in sport, pediatric overuse injuries, and running-related injuries.

Goldman JT, Miller E, Runestad S, Serpa R, Beck J. Should Adolescents Run Marathons?: Youth Marathon Training Injury Epidemiology and Risk Factors. Clin J Sport Med. 2020 Sep 15. doi: 10.1097/JSM.0000000000000870. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32941370.
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Episode 52 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine podcast artwork — **Measuring Training Load** Nov 23, 2020

Welcome to episode 52 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! This month hosts Bryan and Jeremy sit down with Max Paquette, PhD from the University of Memphis. Dr. Paquette is an associate professor in the College of Health Sciences, director of the Musculoskeletal Analysis Laboratory and biomechanist within the Human Performance Center. His research interests are largely focused on lower limb joint mechanics with regards to injury risk reduction and performance improvement in runners, with a particular interest in the effects of different footwear, fatigue/repetition, altered techniques and training interventions. Dr. Paquette has published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles and has contributed to numerous popular media articles and podcasts on the science of running. He also consults with high school, collegiate and world-class track and field athletes and their coaches to optimize performance and reduce injury risks.
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Episode-51-High-Hamstring-Tendinopathies — **High Hamstring Tendinopathies** Oct 26, 2020

Welcome to episode 51 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! This month, we spoke with Tom Goom of The Physio Rooms in England. Tom graduated with BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy from Oxford Brookes University in 2002. He is Clinical Lead at The Physio Rooms, a keen runner, and creator of Running-Physio.com. Tom’s work has gained a worldwide audience and been featured in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Runner’s World and Men’s Running UK. He remains an active clinician and believes in the importance of translating research findings into effective treatments for our patients.

Goom TS, Malliaras P, Reiman MP, Purdam CR. Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy: Clinical Aspects of Assessment and Management. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2016 Jun;46(6):483-93. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2016.5986. Epub 2016 Apr 15. PMID: 27084841.
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Episode 50 Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast — **Gluteal Muscle Activity During Running** Sep 28, 2020

Adam Semciw, PT, PhD of La Trobe University, Australia, is our guest for this episode of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast.

Dr. Semciw is a physiotherapist and Associate Professor of Allied Health (physiotherapy). He has 55 peer-reviewed publications (49 since 2015, Scopus 07/20). He currently holds a 5-year industry-funded conjoint research position to conduct consumer informed, clinically translatable research at a health service (Northern Health, Victoria, Australia).

Dr Semciw’s major research interests are muscle function in hip-related pain, to inform clinical trials for non-surgical management of hip pain. Dr Semciw is ranked number two in the world and first in Australia for research on hip muscle function (‘buttocks’); and number four in Australia for research on ‘hip joint’ (Expertscape 07/20).

Don’t forget to register for the 2020 Mountain Land Running Summit happening this Friday and Saturday, October 2nd and 3rd! We will be sitting down with Running Medicine Podcast Host Bryan Heiderscheit, PT, PhD, and various leaders in the field of Running Medicine to discuss a range of topics including the latest on wearable technology for running, tendinopathy imaging and management, running after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, resistance training recommendations for distance runners, and discussion of the youth running consensus statement. Register today!
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Running Medicine Podcast 49 Regulating Shoes for Road Running artwork — **Regulating Shoes for Road Running** Aug 24, 2020

Episode 49 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast is now available! This month, we speak with Geoff Burns, PhD of the Univesity of Michigan about Regulating Shoes for Road Running. Dr. Burns is a runner and sport science researcher, recently completing his PhD from Michigan’s School of Kinesiology. His research involved the development and application of methods to compare runners to simple biomechanical systems. His studies have explored mechanical patterns in high-performing individuals, ranging from sub-four-minute milers to ultra-marathoners.

Geoff received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in biomedical engineering and has worked professionally as an engineer in the automotive, medical device, and orthopedic research fields. Additionally, he competes internationally as an ultramarathoner. He is a national champion in the 100km and has represented the United States at world championships in the 50km and 100km distances, where he has finished as high as fifth (twice).
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Episode 48 Youth Running — **Youth Running** Jul 27, 2020

Brian Krabak, MD, MBA, FACSM of the University of Washington is our guest for this episode of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Krabak is a Clinical Professor at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Sports Medicine. He is an internationally recognized expert in sports medicine, providing sports medicine care and lecturing throughout the world. His sports medicine experiences have included the Olympics (2012 US Olympic Marathon Trials, 2010 Vancouver Games, 2004 Athens Games, 2002 Salt Lake Games), and is the team physician for the US National Swim Team and collegiate sports (University of Washington). He has a particular focus on the prevention and treatment of running-related injuries in youth, including training recommendations.
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**Shoe Cushioning Influences the Running Injury Risk According to Body Mass** Jun 30, 2020

Laurent Malisoux, PhD of the Luxembourg Institute of Health is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Malisoux is the Leader of the Physical Activity, Sport & Health research group with expertise in sports injury prevention, running biomechanics, physical activity assessment, and exercise physiology. He completed his PhD in 2006 at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), focusing on the impact of training and unloading on contractile properties of single human muscle fibers. After having worked a few years for a private company specializing in human performance evaluation, training, and rehabilitation, he received a grant in Luxembourg for a post-doc project on injury prevention in youth sport. In recent years, his research has focused on the prevention of running-related injuries, as well as on the objective measurement of physical activity in the general population. He has conducted 3 randomized controlled trials investigating the effect of specific shoe features on injury risk in leisure-time runners, incorporating epidemiological and biomechanical approaches.

Malisoux L, Delattre N, Urhausen A, Theisen D. Shoe Cushioning Influences the Running Injury Risk According to Body Mass: A Randomized Controlled Trial Involving 848 Recreational Runners. Am J Sports Med. 2020;48(2):473-480. doi:10.1177/0363546519892578
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**Step Rate Predictors During Competition** Jun 01, 2020

Geoff Burns, PhD of the Univesity of Michigan is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Burns is a runner and sport science researcher, recently completing his PhD from Michigan’s School of Kinesiology. His research involved the development and application of methods to compare runners to simple biomechanical systems. His studies have explored mechanical patterns in high-performing individuals, ranging from sub-four minute milers to ultra-marathoners. Geoff received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in biomedical engineering and has worked professionally as an engineer in the automotive, medical device, and orthopedic research fields. Additionally, he competes internationally as an ultramarathoner. He is a national champion in the 100km and has represented the United States at world championships in the 50km and 100km distances, where he has finished as high as fifth (twice).
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**Monitoring Running Exposure with Wearables** Apr 29, 2020

Allison Gruber, PhD, FACSM and John Davis are our guests for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Gruber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Indiana University in Bloomington and is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. Dr. Gruber’s research focuses on the mechanics of gait, with a particular focus on running and the mechanisms for running injury development. She has incorporated mobile devices to track running and non-running physical activity behaviors, as well as monitor changes to whole-body motion complexity due to training. John Davis is a PhD student in Human Performance at Indiana University with a concentration in biomechanics. His current research involves using wearable technology to assess running mechanics, with the goal of identifying risk factors for overuse injury.
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**Injuries & Illnesses before Marathon** Mar 25, 2020

Thierry Franke, PT of Utrecht University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Thierry specializes in orthopedic rehabilitation, specifically shoulder and ACL rehabilitation. During the final year of his masters, he performed an observational cohort study including nearly 600 half and full marathon runners participating in the Utrecht Marathon together with assistant professor Bionka Huisstede PhD PT and professor Frank Backx MD PhD at the Department of Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy Science, and Sports of the University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University. In 2017, he started working part-time on his PhD investigating the occurrence and impact of health problems in half and full marathon runners and the use and effects of preventive measures such as compression garments. Thierry currently works as a policy adviser for the Royal Dutch Physical Therapy Association.
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**Running Shoe Characteristics and Injury Risk** Feb 28, 2020

Gary Helton, PT, DSc and Don Goss, PT, PhD of the US Army are our guests for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Helton has been an Army physical therapist for 9 years and is board certified in sports and orthopedics. His research interests include injury prevention, particularly within the military initial entry training population. He currently practices in Washington state at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Dr. Don Goss has been an Army physical therapist for 25 years, with research interests in running mechanics and injury prevention. He has received funding support for his work from the Department of Defense, and currently practices in North Carolina at Womack Army Medical Center.
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**Strength Training to Prevent Marathon Injuries** Jan 28, 2020

Brett Toresdahl, MD of the Hospital for Special Surgery is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Toresdahl is board certified in family medicine and has a certificate of added qualification in sports medicine. He is a Team Physician for US Biathlon and Rugby United New York as well as an Orthopedic Consultant for UFC and on the medical staff for Invesco Series QQQ Tennis. He previously served as the TCS New York City Marathon Medical Captain, Seattle Marathon Assistant Medical Director, and Seattle Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Medical Captain. Dr. Toresdahl is active in multiple areas of sports medicine research, including bone stress injuries, running injuries, cardiovascular screening in athletes, and tendinopathy.
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**Barefoot Running Acclimation** Jan 02, 2020

Karsten Hollander, MD, PhD of the University of Hamburg is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Hollander is an assistant professor specializing in sports medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation. He served as the team physician for the German cross-country skiing national team and on the medical advisory board of the German Athletic Association (middle and long-distance running). He completed his PhD in biomechanics studying the “Long-term adaptations of habitually barefoot locomotion on foot morphology and biomechanics during childhood and adolescence.” He is currently a visiting fellow at the Spaulding National Running Center and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School.
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**Shoe Midsole Stiffness** Nov 27, 2019

Saša Čigoja of the University of Calgary is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Saša is a Kinesiology PhD student at the Human Performance Laboratory. Under the supervision of Dr. Benno Nigg, he studies the effects of increased longitudinal midsole bending stiffness of sport shoes on running mechanics. His PhD work focuses on how increased midsole bending stiffness can be used to redistribute lower limb joint work during running, and how this increased stiffness affects the amount and velocity of muscle and muscle-tendon unit shortening. Saša’s research aims to provide some deeper understanding as to why running in stiff shoes can improve running performance.
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**University of Wisconsin Running Injury and Recovery Index** Oct 31, 2019

Evan O. Nelson, PT, DPT, PhD of University of Wisconsin-Madison is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Nelson is an assistant professor in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. His research involves evaluating the utility of patient-reported outcome measures for running-related injuries. His practice experience spans multiple sports and orthopedic clinical settings including a current position at UW Health.
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**Cognitive Demands of Gait Retraining** Sep 30, 2019

Nicholas Murray, PhD of East Carolina University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Murray is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and director of the Visual Motor Lab. Dr. Murray’s research involves visual-motor control, brain activity, and the influence of cognitive effort within motor control and learning. His primary goal is to determine antecedents and consequences of an individual’s ability to function in dynamic situations based on the physiological changes that can either facilitate or debilitate motor control. His recent projects include cognitive demands of gait retraining and the neural time course of information processing that disrupt motor behavior.
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**The Business of Minimal Shoes** Aug 27, 2019

Steven Sashen is a serial entrepreneur who has never had a job, a former professional stand-up comic and award-winning screenwriter, and a competitive sprinter — one of the fastest men over 55 in the country. He and his wife, Lena Phoenix, co-founded the footwear company Xero Shoes, creating “a MOVEMENT movement” which has helped hundreds of thousands of people Live Life Feet First with happy, healthy, strong feet in addictively comfortable footwear. Steven and Lena also appeared on Shark Tank, where they turned down a $400,000 offer from Kevin O’Leary.
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**Non-Traditional Running Shoes** Jul 25, 2019
Christine Pollard, PT, PhD of Oregon State University-Cascades in Bend, Oregon is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Pollard is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology and the Director of the Force Lab which is a biomechanics laboratory housed within a large Orthopedic Sports Medicine Center in Bend. Dr. Pollard’s research is dedicated to improving the scientific understanding of lower extremity injuries and advancing injury-prevention and rehabilitation programs based on this knowledge. Her research is primarily focused in two areas: 1) examining the influence of varying types of footwear on running biomechanics; and, 2) identifying biomechanical risk factors for ACL injury and re-injury. Recently, Dr. Pollard has conducted a series of studies investigating the influence of maximal running shoes on running biomechanics.
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**Do Ground Reaction Forces Reflect Bone Loads?** Jun 25, 2019

Karl Zelik, PhD and Emily Matijevich of Vanderbilt University are our guests for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Zelik is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and co-directs the Center for Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology (CREATE). CREATE aims to improve health, mobility, and independence for individuals with disabilities, and to enhance human capabilities beyond biological limits, by engineering, measuring, optimizing and understanding technologies that physically augment human performance. Emily Matijevich is a Mechanical Engineering PhD student working with Dr. Zelik. Emily’s research interests include musculoskeletal overuse injuries and opportunities for preventing these injuries with wearable technology and smart assistive devices. For her work, Emily is a recipient of a 2019 Women in Sports Tech Fellowship.
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**Running Injury Risk Factors** May 28, 2019

Mitchell J. Rauh, PT, PhD, MPH, FACSM of San Diego State University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Rauh is a Professor and the Founding Program Director for the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program. He is the Director of the San Diego State University Running and Sports Injury Prevention Research laboratory, and a Co-Principal Investigator of Project SPIRIT (Sports Injury Research In Teens), a multi-funded grant study that has monitored injuries and the female athlete triad syndrome and its impact on injury and long-term bone health among girls’ high school sports. Dr. Rauh has received multiple national awards for his research. He is on the Executive Committee for the American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy (AASPT), and a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.
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**The Runners and Injury Longitudinal Study (TRAILS)** Apr 23, 2019

Stephen Messier, PhD of Wake Forest University of the University of Washington is our guest for episode 33 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podast. Dr. Messier is Professor and Director of the J.B. Snow Biomechanics Laboratory in the Department of Health and Exercise Science, and teaches biomechanics and human gross anatomy at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Dr. Messier has 28 years of clinical trial experience concerning osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee; his international team of clinicians and researchers are recognized for their research regarding the effects of weight loss and exercise upon knee OA pain, function, strength, quality of life, and gait biomechanics.
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**Running Mechanics and Experience** Apr 03, 2019

Cristine Agresta, MPT, PhD of the University of Washington is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podast. Dr. Agresta is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Physical Therapy in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. She is interested in identifying factors that influence physical resilience, functionality, and durability in athletes. Her research focuses on utilizing wearables to improve clinical assessment and monitoring techniques in real-world settings.
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**Is Forefoot Striking Beneficial?** Feb 19, 2019

Allison Gruber, PhD of the University of Indiana is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Gruber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology within the School of Public Health. She received her Master’s degree at East Carolina University and her PhD from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on the metabolic and mechanical differences between different foot strike patterns as well as the mechanisms for running-related injury. Dr. Gruber’s newest research examines the interaction of multiple gait and training variables to identify individualized risk factors for running injury development. She is also investigating the use of wearable technology in order to detect periods of elevated injury risk.
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**Strength Training for Runners** Jan 23, 2019

Chris Johnson, physical therapist and owner of Zeren PT & Performance in Seattle, WA is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podast. Chris is also the co-founder and CEO of RunCadence, an iOS app that helps runners apply step rate manipulation to their training. Chris is well published in medical literature and a sought after speaker when it comes to managing endurance athletes across the injury to performance spectrum.
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**The Importance of Sleep** Dec 21, 2018

John Dopp, PharmD of the University of Wisconsin is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Dopp is a pharmacist and Associate Professor in the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, and clinical researcher with Wisconsin Sleep. His primary research interest is the relationship between sleep disorders and athletic performance. As part of Badger Athletic Performance, Dr. Dopp conducts a weekly sleep clinic with UW student-athletes to improve performance and health through the identification and management of sleep problems.
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**Return to Running after Time Off** Nov 28, 2018

Jeff Gaudette of RunnersConnect.net is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Coach Jeff has been running for 13 years, at all levels of the sport. He was a two time Division-I All-American in Cross Country while at Brown University and competed professionally for 4 years after college. Jeff has competed all over the world and recorded Olympic Trials qualifying times in the marathon and 10,000 meters. He began coaching in 2005 while a member of the Hansons-Brooks professional team, and has had success at all levels of coaching: high school, college, local elite, and everyday runners. Jeff has been featured in Running Times magazine, Endurance Magazine, as well as numerous local magazine fitness columns. Jeff currently lives in San Diego, California but coaches athletes in 36 different states and 4 countries.
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**Does Running Initiate Knee Osteoarthritis?** Oct 16, 2018

Ross Miller, PhD of the University of Maryland is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Program. Dr. Miller’s research focuses on the mechanical loads transmitted throughout the body during human movement, the dependency of these loads on the specifics of an individual’s movement mechanics, and the positive/negative consequences of those loads on health and fitness. He is interested in developing testable theories on why humans move the way we do, if the manner in which an individual walks plays a role in their risk for developing knee osteoarthritis, and if adjustments to gait mechanics and mechanical loading can mitigate this risk in special populations.
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**Running During Pregnancy** Sep 26, 2018

Andrew Shennan, OBE, MBBS, MD, FRCOG of King’s College London is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Shennan is Professor of Obstetrics, Director of the Clinical Trials Unit in the Women’s Academic Health Centre, and Deputy Director of R and D for Guys and St. Thomas NHS Trust. He sits on the Academic and Research Committees of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG) and is the National Chair of the NIHR Reproductive Health and Childbirth Specialty Group in the UK. Dr. Shennan specializes in clinical trials in antenatal and intrapartum care, and his research interests include interventions to predict and prevent preterm birth, pre-eclampsia, encourage normal birth and the use of blood pressure monitoring.
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**Kinetic Risk Factors for Running Injury** Aug 29, 2018

Chris Napier, PT, PhD of University of British Columbia is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Napier is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, and is currently the Western Hub physiotherapist for Athletics Canada and the team physiotherapist for the BC Endurance Project, a group of Canada’s elite distance runners based out of Vancouver. Through his research, Dr. Napier aims to develop an intervention program to reduce injury rates in novice recreational runners that integrates manual therapy with movement retraining.
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**What can wearables tell us?** Jul 24, 2018

David Hawkins, PhD of University of California-Davis is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Hawkins is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, is the chair of the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group, and oversees the Biomechanics portion of the UC Davis Human Performance Lab. A mechanical/biomedical engineer by academic training, Dr. Hawkins research objectives are to understand the mechanisms that influence the performance of skeletal muscle and gross human movement, and to develop tools based on this information that can be used to increase human quality of life by increasing physical performance capabilities while minimizing the risk of injury.
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**Running and Knee OA Progression** Jun 27, 2018

Rich Souza, PhD, PT of UC-San Francisco is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Souza is a Professor in the Departments of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Radiology, and Orthopaedic Surgery, and the Director of Research of the Human Performance Center. Dr. Souza’s research interests are focused on the relationships between mechanics of human movement and development and progression of knee and hip osteoarthritis. Dr. Souza is also part of the UCSF RunSafe team, a program which is offered to all runners or walkers interested in a comprehensive evaluation of gait mechanics, strength and flexibility, foot structure and footwear choices, and nutritional approaches.
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**Running after ACL Reconstruction** May 24, 2018

Dan Cobian, PT, PhD of University of Wisconsin is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Cobian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation and Doctor of Physical Therapy Program and a researcher within UW Badger Athletic Performance. His research is focused on the neuromuscular recovery following joint surgeries and how movement patterns are affected.
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**The Importance of the Foot** Apr 30, 2018

Irene Davis, PhD, PT, FAPTA of Harvard University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Davis is a Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the founding Director of the Spaulding National Running Center. She has pioneered the area of retraining faulty gait patterns in both walking and running, and an advocate for the importance of foot health in runners.
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**Run Strong, Stay Hungry** Mar 20, 2018

Jonathan Beverly is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Jonathan is a writer, photographer, coach, lifetime runner and expert in running shoes and the running industry. He served as editor of Running Times from 2000-2015, and is the author of Your Best Stride (Rodale, 2017) and Run Strong, Stay Hungry (Velopress, 2017).
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**Women’s Health Issues in Runners** Mar 01, 2018

Jenelle Deatherage, PT, OCS of Rock Valley Physical Therapy in Peoria, IL is our guest for episode 19 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Jenelle is a physical therapist who specializes in treating running injuries and has an interest in women’s health issues related to sports. She was a 4-time All-American for the University of Wisconsin and went on to run professionally. She recently qualified for the 2020 Olympic Trials in the marathon.
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**Factors Affecting Running: Shoe Mass and Tendon Mechanics** Jan 26, 2018

Jason Franz, PhD of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Franz is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and director of the UNC Applied Biomechanics Lab. His research interests involve the neuromuscular biomechanics of human movement, with a special emphasis on aging.
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**Gait Retraining and Injury Rates** Dec 21, 2017

Roy Cheung, PT, PhD of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Cheung is a physical therapist and biomechanist within the Gait & Motion Analysis Laboratory. His research interests include running biomechanics, injury prevention, and gait modification strategies.
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**Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport: an Elite Runner’s Experience** Nov 16, 2017

Tina Muir is a 2:36 marathoner and Great Britain runner who recently shocked the running world by taking a hiatus to focus on starting a family and overcoming amenorrhea. Tina created the Running for Real Community to foster a healthy mindset around running. This is a space where runners can explore, embrace, and get better from setbacks through inspiring podcasts, videos, and blog posts, and most importantly, sharing thoughts and experiences. Tina believes that behind every personal best, there are plenty of personal not-so-bests, from beating ourselves up about just-missed PRs to the injury blues to embarrassing falls. She knows that running can really hurt, but feels that we don’t have to go through it alone.
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**Nutrition for Runners** Oct 24, 2017
Nick Aures, RD, MS of the University of Wisconsin Athletics is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Nick is the Director of Performance Nutrition, and responsible for overseeing all nutritional services and education for the student-athletes. Prior to joining the Badgers, Nick was the performance enhancement dietitian for Navy Fitness & All Navy sports, working with all branches of the military and coordinating nutrition programs and services worldwide. Nick is a registered dietitian and board certified specialist in sports dietetics, as well as a certified strength and conditioning specialist.
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**Retraining Running Gait** Sep 19, 2017
Richard Willy, PT, PhD of the University of Montana is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Willy’s research is discussed which focuses on gait modification of runners at high risk for patellofemoral pain and tibial stress fractures, as well as those post knee surgery.
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**Injury Considerations as an Elite Runner** Jun 27, 2017

Jared Ward is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Jared is an accomplished distance runner, winning the 2015 USATF Running Circuit Champions, and most recently running for team USA in the 2016 Summer Olympics. He wrote his master thesis on optimal marathon pacing strategies, and will provide useful insights for staying healthy despite high running mileage.
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running-medicine-podcast-cover — **Core Training for the Distance Runner** May 23, 2017

Jay Dicharry, PT of Rebound Physical Therapy is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Jay is a physical therapist and author of Anatomy for Runner, and director of the REP lab in Bend, OR which treats underlying biomechanical problems using force analyzing technology. Jay has broad experience both in the clinical and research aspects of running injury management.
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**Running Shoe Design** Dec 23, 2016

Golden Harper, founder of Altra Running Footwear, is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Golden’s thoughts on footwear design, running-injury myths and footwear selection will be discussed, as well as what it was like to build a running shoe company from the ground up.
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Retraining Running Mechanics Oct 27, 2016

Shane McClinton, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT of Des Moines University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. McClinton’s experience as the director of the Running Clinic at DMU is discussed, including his approach to retraining running mechanics.

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Aging, Gender and Running Mechanics Sep 30, 2016

Blaise Williams, PT, PhD of VCU Run Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University is our guest. Dr. Williams’ research is discussed including how running mechanics change with advancing age, factors affecting injury risk in female runners, and some of his latest work that led to the development of a Running Readiness Scale.

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Running and Osteoarthritis Aug 18, 2016

So often we hear from both patients and colleagues alike how running is “bad for your joints”. However, the evidence over the past decade-plus indicates that this strongly held notion is likely not true; instead moderate or recreational running may actually have a protective effect.

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