Who is this course for?

  • Sports injury practitioners who regularly encounter running-related injuries in their practice

  • Those wishing to better understand how to tackle the common running injuries suffered by athletes

  • Practitioners seeking more effective strategies to put injured runners back together and keep them healthy

  • Those suffering with recurrent or recalcitrant running injuries who are seeking to better understand and direct their own rehab

  • Practitioners seeking to learn how best to evaluate running mechanics in a clinic or field setting

  • Those seeking the understanding to analyse and interpret what they see in the running assessment

  • Anybody wishing to understand how to deliver gait retraining in a way that effects lasting positive change

Course curriculum

  • 1

    An Overview on the Problem: Why do so many Runners get Injured?

  • 2

    How Humans Run: Unpacking the Challenges of Locomotion

    • Evolution of Human Running Locomotion

    • Models to Understand Human Running Gait

    • Understanding What We Are Trying to do When Running

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate

    • The Default versus Most Mechanically Sound Strategy

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate
  • 3

    Risk Factors for Running-Related Injury

    • What Risk Factors do we Need to be Aware of?

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate

    • What Training Factors Relate to Injury Risk in Runners?

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate

    • What Role Does Technical Proficiency Play?

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate
  • 4

    Exploring Common Running-Related Injuries

    • Understanding the Common Injuries Reported by Runners

    • Bone Stress Injuries

    • Achilles Tendinopathy

    • Patellofemoral Pain

    • Iliotibial Band Syndrome

    • Lower Leg Pain and Exertional Compartment Syndrome

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate

    • Plantar Fasciopathy

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate
  • 5

    First Steps: Assessing the Runner

    • Evaluating Healthy Runners

    • Assessing the Injured Runner

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate

    • What are the Options for Assessing Running Gait?

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate

    • Running Gait Analysis: What Are We Looking For?

    • Key Markers During the Swing Phase

    • Evaluating Stance Phase Mechanics

    • Summarising the Key Criteria

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate
  • 6

    Runners with Prior or Current Injuries: A Mixed Methods Approach

    • Interpreting Findings to Inform Interventions

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate

    • Opportunities and Options for Intervention

    • Footwear and Orthoses

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate

    • Stretching and Myofascial Release

    • Neuromuscular Training Interventions and Strength Training

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate

    • Conventional Approaches to Gait Retraining Intervention

    • Gait Retraining in the Lab with Real-time Feedback

    • 'Gait Retraining' in the Clinic: Switching Foot Strike Strategy

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate

    • 'Gait Retraining' in the Clinic: Manipulating Cadence or Speed

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate

    • Summary: The Need for a More Customised and Comprehensive Approach to Gait Retraining in the Field
  • 7

    How to Manage Common Running-Related Injuries: A Tailored Approach

    • The Need to be Specific and Directed When Dealing with Running Injuries

    • Pause to Reflect and Relate

    • Bone Stress Injuries

    • Achilles Tendinopathy

    • Patellofemoral Pain

    • Iliotibial Band Syndrome

    • Lower Leg Pain and Exertional Compartment Syndrome

    • Plantar Fasciopathy
  • 8

    Addressing Critical Aspects of Running Technique

    • Instilling Sound Technique during the Return-to-Run Process

    • Necessity of Feedback and Coaching to Mitigate Risk of Future Running-Related Injury

    • Posture and Shape

    • Where the Foot Engages the Ground

    • How the Foot Engages the Ground

    • Action during Stance

    • Coupling between Trail and Lead Leg

    • Recovery Action

    • 'Front Side' Mechanics

    • The Role of the Upper Limbs (Arm Action)

    • Bandwidth for Instruction and Attending to Technique

    • Consolidating Changes and Quality as the Criteria to Guide Return to Run Training Progression
  • 9

    Mitigating Injury Risk in all Runners

    • Reinforcing and Augmenting Critical Links in the Kinetic Chain

    • Developing Capacity and Capability to Support Proficient Running

    • Supplemental Training for Female Runners

    • Running Shoe Selection

    • Utility of Barefoot Running

    • Specific Training for Foot/Ankle Complex and Lower Leg Conditioning

    • Ideal Run Warm Up
  • 10

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