You have come to the right place if: 

 

• You were told you should stop running rather than provided a plan to treat your running injury

• You want to work with a medical provider who gets runners

• You are tired of chronically getting injured

• You want to avoid expensive surgeries and injections

• You want to reduce your treatment time, getting you back to pain-free running faster

No matter what your rehab goal is, Dr. Jamie's unique approach to physical therapy for runners focuses on evidence-based treatments to get you the results you want. Dr. Jamie takes a no-nonsense, no bandaid approach to running-injury rehab. The foundation of the program utilizes rehab techniques that focus on getting you back to pain-free running quickly, while also focusing on long-term healing. Unlike other physical therapy clinics, Dr. Jamie doesn't relying on "feel good" treatments that don't impact healing time or treatment outcomes, and don't help you stay injury-free in the future. 

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Unfortunately, traditional physical therapy for runners is falling short with effectively treating running injuries. Here are the top 4 issues with traditional PT:

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1. Too much time is spent on "feel good" treatments: Graston or tool therapy, massage, stretching, joint manipulations, cupping, and dry needling can create immediate “feel good” effects for runners where they experience less stiffness or pain, but these treatments only create temporary rather than lasting changes. These treatments focus on short-term benefits with treating two common symptoms of running-related injures (pain and stiffness). Unfortunately, pain and stiffness are not the cause of your injury and only focusing on these two areas won’t help you get back to healthy running and stay injury -free.

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2. Insurance doesn't cover return-to-run programming: PTs are injury experts and are the most qualified professionals to create injury-specific return-to-run programs for their runners, yet they aren't able to provide this service because insurance won't cover it. Return-to-run programming is really complicated and usually done incorrectly by runners when they try to do it on their own. No matter how much physical therapy you do and how diligent you are with your PT exercises, you will still have a slow return-to-run process and be more likely to experience flare ups because you are not getting specific day-to-day instructions on your training plan.

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3. PTs don't look at past training: Training errors are the number one cause of running-related injuries, yet most PTs don’t look at a runner’s past training as part of the treatment process. This means that a runner might experience short-term improvements with treatment but will likely get re-injured because the root cause of the injury isn’t being addressed.

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4. They perform time consuming gait assessments:  Gait assessments look cool, but should be used far less often than they are currently since they are a time consuming and often costly assessment that typically do not change the treatment recommendations or treatment outcomes. Temporary changes in gait might be appropriate for some runners in order to reduce stress on the injured tissues, but runners will return to their natural way of running once they are pain-free. There is nothing wrong with that since running biomechanics aren't the main cause of running injuries, nor are they the cause of underperforming.