Running injuries
Gait analysis plus tissue work, so you return to mileage without the relapse loop.
Running injuries are load problems wearing a tissue's name. Shin, knee, hamstring, and Achilles complaints usually trace back to two or three mechanics you have been repeating twelve hundred times a mile, plus a jump in volume the tissue was not ready for. Rest pauses that, it does not change it.
c-04 / in your words
Does this sound like your last three months?
- 01The same side, the same tissue, the third time in two years
- 02Fine for the first two miles, then it shows up at the same point every run
- 03You were told to rest, you rested, and it returned at the old mileage
- 04It started within a month of adding distance, speed, or a new shoe
c-04 / how it is worked
The return-to-run protocol
phase 01 / film
Measure the mechanics instead of describing them
Treadmill video at easy pace and near threshold, four angles. Cadence, overstride, pelvic drop, knee window, and foot strike come back as numbers. You get the frames, so the thing we are changing is something you can see.
phase 02 / change two things
Two cues, not eight
A runner given eight corrections runs worse and stops running. We pick the two mechanics with the most leverage on your specific tissue and drill those, with tissue work alongside where the tissue is genuinely irritable.
phase 03 / rebuild mileage
Criteria at every step, not a calendar
Six weeks, and each step opens when the previous one is met rather than when the date arrives. Three clinic reviews and a re-shoot at the end against the original frames. Rest was already tried and the relapse loop is what it produced.
what we test first
Treadmill video at easy pace and near threshold, four angles, broken down frame by frame. Cadence, overstride, pelvic drop, knee window, and foot strike measured rather than described, then two cues, not eight.
how many visits
The analysis is one visit. The return-to-run block that usually follows is six weeks, criteria-based at every step, with three clinic reviews and a re-shoot at the end.
when this is not ours
Focal bone pain that hurts to hop on, or night pain in the same spot, is screened for a stress reaction and imaged before any loading plan starts.