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

Stretching is bad for you?

April 21st 2013

Interesting article in the new york times……….. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/reasons-not-to-stretch/ its been suspected for a while that stretching before activity could be a waste of time, and I tend to recommend that people stretch regularly throughout the day, and after exercise rather than before……  I personally believe that the best type of warm up is doing at [...]

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Torq Team Day

March 30th 2013

Just gave a talk to a group of ultra runners at an event organised by Simon and Julie at Freestak (www.freestak.com) and Torq (www.torqfitness.co.uk), at the parliament hill fields lido in hampstead, london, a stones throw away from my clinic in Chetwynd Road (www.backsandbeyond.co.uk) Thanks Simon and Julie for a well organised day! Here is [...]

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STOP PRESS!! New Knee Clinic opens 1st January

December 30th 2012

http://www.backsandbeyond.co.uk/2012/12/stop-press-new-knee-clinic-opens-1st-january/

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Very Late Urban Hill Climb Blog!!!

October 4th 2012

Thursday 19th July was the date………… after a couple of months of (hardly!) training, I was let loose like a wild stallion on a unicycle up the 800m climb to the summit. My race number was 12…… which represented the maximum age that one should really be allowed to unicycle….. not for grown men really….. [...]

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