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Reasons for Buttock Pain in Runners Oct 30, 2023

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In today's episode, Brodie reviews a paper titled: Buttock Pain in Athletes: a Narrative Review

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Pro Runner Spotlight: Sarah Klein Oct 23, 2023

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Sarah Klein is an Australian marathon runner competing in multiple marathons including Budapest in 2023. Sarah's second world championship was last year in Eugene where she placed a magnificent 14th. Her marathon PB is 2:30.49 and is the 14th fastest in Australian history.

In this pro-runner spotlight, Sarah shares her battles with injury, her training schedule that lead to a 2:30 marathon including her taper, fueling and carb loading strategy.

If you'd like to follow Sarah's running journey you can find her on instagram and facebook

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The Cartilage Response to Running with Michaela Khan Oct 16, 2023

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Michaela Khan is a researcher from the University of British Columbia. She studies all things running biomechanics and discusses her recent systematic review and meta-analysis titled: The Influence of Running on Lower Limb Cartilage.

Michaela discusses the work that went into publishing the paper and what the final results concluded.

You will learn:

What influence running has on cartilage
How the cartilage responds after minutes, hours, days and months of running.
How to maintain healthy knee and hip cartilage
If high mileage runners need to worry about their knees
What runners with mild-moderate osteo-arthritis need to do

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Think Away Your Pain Oct 09, 2023

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Brodie reviews the book: Think Away Your Pain and how it can translate to helping injured runners.

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Gait Retraining for Performance, Treatment & Prevention with Dr. Izzy Moore Oct 02, 2023

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We have the legendary Dr. Izzy Moore who is a world-leading researcher in Cardiff. Izzy Moore has done a lot of work on gait-retraining and cadence changes. Today I pick Izzy’s brain on how a recreational runner can change their running technique to help their performance, overcome a running injury and injury prevention. Izzy shares the latest research on gait retraining for injuries, specifically ITB friction syndrome, patellofemoral knee pain and stress fractures.

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Long-Run Distances for Marathon Prep Sep 25, 2023

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Learn how to optimize your marathon training plan and fine-tune your long-run strategy for your best race day ever. This episode unravels the critical missing piece to your marathon training puzzle. Working out what your long-run distance should be, if you are looking to run a personal best.

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Flat feet: A Deformity, or Healthy Variant? with Ian Griffiths & Gabriel Moisan Sep 18, 2023

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Gabriel & Ian are the co-authors of a new paper titled: Flat feet: deformities or healthy anatomical variants?
Today, we discuss where the narrative of 'flat-feet is bad' came from and whether the theory correlates with the research.

We also answer the question if people with flat feet are more injury prone and need interventions such as orthotics and stability shoes.

Papers mentioned in the episode:
Flat feet: deformities or healthy anatomical variants?
The effect of foot orthoses and insoles on running economy and performance in distance runners: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Flatfoot over the centuries: the background of current conservative and operative treatments

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Pro Runner Spotlight: Andy Buchanan Sep 11, 2023

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Andy Buchanan is an Australian runner who ran his debut marathon in 2022 with an impressive time of 2:12:23. He qualified and ran in the commonwealth games shortly after.

Listen in as Andy unpacks his training schedule, including weekly mileage, strength training, fueling, nutrition, recovery, psychology and every other element to make you a better runner.

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Jen’s Chronic Pain Success Story (Mind-Body & Healing) Sep 04, 2023

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Jen has been dealing with chronic pain for a very long time but after a journey of self-discovery and unlocking the potential of the mind-body connection she has managed to return to running pain-free.

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