Running Rehab in the Hamptons

Three things cause running injuries. We check all three.

Running rehab is injury care plus the two things that produced the injury. First the tissue gets settled with hands-on treatment and a temporary change to your running. Then your therapist looks at gait, at load and at capacity, because nearly every running injury traces back to one of those three, and treating the sore spot alone is why it returns at the same point in every training block.

Gait means how you actually run: cadence, stride length, where the foot lands relative to your hips, how much the pelvis drops, what the trunk does. Small cadence and contact changes redistribute force away from the structure that is complaining. Load means the arithmetic of your training: how fast mileage or intensity climbed, how the hard days sit next to each other, what surface, what shoes.

Capacity is the one runners skip. Hips that cannot control the pelvis over a single leg, and a calf and achilles complex that has never been loaded heavily enough for the thousands of contacts a week you ask of it. Building that capacity is what lets you absorb the training you want to do, and it is usually the difference between a runner who gets over an injury and a runner who stops collecting them.