Running Injuries

Why Joel is the best person to see for your running injury

• Most physiotherapists and sports doctors are not serious runners and so approach injury with excessive caution.

• Most are WAY too conservative and don't understand that missing 4 weeks from running is a huge difference compared to missing 3 months for a stress fracture.

• Joel is an ultra runner who has only missed 5 weeks due to injury in 6 years of running between 80-160km/week during this time. He has navigated almost every niggle without missing time, although adapting some training.

• Joel only missed 5 weeks with a sacral stress fracture (compared to most who miss 3 months or more) and followed recent evidence-based research to guide this rapid return to running. He completed a 100km (3rd place) race in NZ, after just 12 weeks of running building back from the injury.

• Many practitioners rely on imaging to guide decision making that is not helpful (eg there is no need to get a review MRI to see if a sacral stress fracture has healed after 4-5 weeks if clinically the person is good to run as the scan findings can lag many, many months behind the clinical picture and so rescanning is not helpful or indicated).