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

and the moral of the story is…….

January 27th 2012

I wrote this blog post on the plane back from the Berlin marathon four months ago…… just got around to submitting it! what a lovely race it was…. flat, beautiful city, perfect warm temperature (although many did complain it was too hot, I guess I’m solar powered!) and fairly well organised… I say fairly well, [...]

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The answer to your running injuries – look in the mirror

June 25th 2011

Every talk i give to runners and non runners alike has, as its main theme, the idea that to aim for symmetry in the way that our bodies move is of paramount importance to warding off injury. This is never more true than in runners. A slight asymmetry in function will create a difference in [...]

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Running backwards, to go forwards

December 17th 2010

I was treating a man the other day who is training for the London Marathon 2011. He’s obviously someone who takes care of his fitness, and someone who you would expect would run a fairly quick time. However, when i asked him what sort of time he was looking for he mentioned that somewhere between [...]

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Running Injury? Head for the kitchen!

December 6th 2010

The kitchen may seem like an unlikely place in which one can heal ones running injuries, but it holds one of the most potent tools for easing tired, sore and tight muscles. The tool i’m talking about is the rolling pin. My patients are probably pretty sick of me talking about how useful the pin is! But [...]

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