Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast

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. The post Biomechanical Risk Factors for Running-Related Injury first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. The post Dietary Supplement Use in Preadolescent Endurance Runners first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. The post Plank Times and Lower Extremity Overuse Injury in Collegiate Track-and-Field and Cross Country Athletes first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. The post Trail Running Injury Risk Factors first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. The post Biopsychosocial Risk Factors Associated with Pain in Postpartum Runners first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. The post Foot Strike Technique and Its Classification at Impact first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

Welcome to episode 40 of The Mountain Land Pelvic Health Podcast! This month, we’re sitting down with Dr. Peter Fisher to discuss prostate cancer treatments and how Physical Therapy can help. Dr. Fisher attended the University of Utah school of Medicine followed by his residancy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Michigan. He currently serves as Chief of Surgery and Director of Men’s Health services at St. Mark’s Hospital. He is currently working at Granger Urology in Sandy, Utah. During this podcast we discuss symptoms of prostate cancer, the paradigm of treatment options, prostatectomy procedure and physical therapy interventions before and after to prevent any urinary incontinence or scarring dysfunctions.   Listen to this episode below or wherever you get your podcasts! The post Prostate Cancer Treatments and how Physical Therapy can Help first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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 The post Predictive Effect of Well-Known Risk Factors and Foot-Core Training in Lower Limb Running-Related Injuries in Recreational Runners first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. The post Monitoring Technology In Recreational Runners first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. Listen to this episode below or wherever you get your podcasts! The post How Recreational Runners Deal With Injuries first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. You can listen to this month’s episode below or wherever you get your podcasts. The post Returning to Distance Running After an Injury first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. The post Injury-Resistant vs. Recently Injured Runners first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. The post Optimal Loading for Preventing and Managing Bone Stress Injuries first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. The post Middle School Distance Running first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. The post Hip Strength and Prior Injury first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. The post Achilles Tendinopathy Rehabilitation first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

\r\n\nOn 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.\r\nThe post Hamstring Strain Injuries first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.\r\n

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. Listen below or wherever you get your podcasts! The post Running Postpartum first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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. Listen below or wherever you get your podcasts. The post Running During Pregnancy first appeared on Mountain Land Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation.

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.