Welcome to the Running Injury Oracle

This site is a resource for all runners, novice or experienced. It will help you work out the nature of your injury and then give you all the knowledge you need to self-rehabilitate, including over 150 video clips, helping

you get back to running quickly. The site is the brainchild of Gavin Burt, one of the UK’s leading running injury osteopaths, and director of Backs & Beyond, London’s running injury clinic.

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About Running Injury Oracle

If you have a running injury, or are experiencing running pain, this is the website for you.

Whether you are a novice runner with your first running injury, or an experienced or elite runner who is experiencing yet another (!) running injury, we help you understand the nature of the injury, and give you all the knowledge you need to help you self rehabilitate and get rid of those running pains FAST.

The website is completely FREE. You will have free access to a wealth of information pertinent to your specific running injury, including over 150 video clips tailored to your particular condition.

You can also visit our worldwide store of running specific rehabilitation products, chosen by our team of experts.

The site is the brainchild of Gavin Burt, one of the UK’s leading running injury osteopaths.

This is how the site works:

Step 1: Follow the interactive tool using the images on the homescreen to identify the most likely cause of your injury.

Step 2: After a quick and free registration process (we will not share your email address with anyone else), have free access to our complete video library.

Latest from Gavin's blog

The Urban Hill Climb

April 28th 2012

Today i started training for the Urban Hill Climb, an 800m cycling time trial race up the steepest public road in London, Swains Lane in Highgate. I’m attempting to do it on a unicycle, which is probably completely mad, but i thought it would be an interesting thing to do, and a good way to raise [...]

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London Marathon 2012 Photos

April 25th 2012

Even though i was really disappointed with my run, i thought id post a couple of pics for fun!

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London Marathon Woes…….

April 23rd 2012

With a race as long as the marathon you’ve got 26.2 miles for things to go wrong. I thought that, since it was my 10th marathon, i was seasoned enough to sail through, maybe not with a PB but at least in a respectable (for me) time of around 3.40. But, although i had more [...]

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The Running Shops are going to hate me for this!

March 12th 2012

I frequently have patients consulting me who have pain in their knees or shins or feet that come on half way through a run. Although there are many different possible causes for these pains, it is often because of the wrong footwear, or worn out shoes, both resulting in undue stresses being applied to the lower [...]

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