Running Injury Oracle

A big bee in my bonnet has always been the idea of asymmetry being the enemy of the runner. So with this in mind I just wanted to bring up the subject of ‘camber’ and how it can really upset your body and result in injury.
A camber is ‘a convexity in a road surface’, i.e. [...]

Someone just told me about a great test for whether or not you have a stress fracture, anywhere in the body.
Normally, in clinic, when examining a patient, I use the base of a tuning fork on the bone I suspect is fractured (it will be painful if  a fracture is present!), but you can also [...]

For those brave warriors who are on the epic voyage towards running the London Marathon this year, you will be firmly into your training schedule. As i am writing this there will be only 10 weeks to go.
Your long runs will be becoming more substantial, perhaps up to 16-18 miles, and your speed work, interval [...]

“I stretch until the cows come home, so why am i still injured?”
The obvious answer to the question would be that stretching is not the answer to your recovery! Of course you need to understand what your injury is before choosing the right tools for rehabilitation (essentially what this website is designed for!).
If stretching IS [...]

Last weekend was the Oslo marathon. My wife (who was running the 10k) and I went out there, without the kids!
The weather was good to us, which is a good job really, since everything was so expensive at least the weather was free!
It was a really tough marathon, and i missed my target time by [...]

Knee pain is often quite a tricky problem to treat. One of the major stumbling blocks is not so much what the injury is called, but exactly how it got there in the first place. In my experience of treating hundreds of runners’ knees each year there is certainly a common cause that runs through [...]

The Running Injury Oracle was born on the night of the 7th September 2009. I’d like to say that i’m still reeling from the hangover, but there was no alcohol involved, and no launch party (yet)!
The purpose of this blog will be twofold.
Firstly, I will be writing about any interesting points to do with running [...]

Well over a month ago i said that we were almost there with launching the site. I am learning that when it comes to website development, ‘almost there’ is as meaningless as talking greek to an african!
I decided to change the subscription time to 4 months rather than 3 months, for the same price.
I also [...]

This is my first blog on the Running Injury Oracle site, and we’re only a week or two from launching the site!
I thought i would just give a little bit of background to how the site was conceived, for anyone that might be interested.
Three years ago, i was travelling to Denmark to run the Copenhagen [...]