Laurent Malisoux, PhD of the Luxembourg Institute of Health is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Malisoux is the Leader of the Physical Activity, Sport & Health research group with expertise in sports injury prevention, running biomechanics, physical activity assessment and exercise physiology. He completed his PhD in 2006 at UCLouvain (Belgium), focusing on the impact of training and unloading on contractile properties of single human…

Michelle Barrack, PhD, RD, CSSD, FACSM of California State University, Long Beach is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Barrack is an Associate Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics and a Board-Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics. She has published research on topics addressing nutrition and bone health in youth and collegiate endurance runners and the prevalence and factors associated with dietary supplement use in athletes. Dr. Barrack…

Lace Luedke, PT, PhD, DPT of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Luedke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology with over 20 years of clinical experience. She earned her PhD in Orthopedic & Sports Science from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, her DPT from the University of Central Arkansas, and her BS in Physical Therapy from…

Carel Viljoen of University of Pretoria is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Viljoen is the Head of Physiotherapy at the Sport, Exercise Medicine, and Lifestyle Institute (SEMLI), which is an International Olympic Committee (IOC) research centre, where he mainly works with trail runners and other adventure related sports such as adventure racing. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Physiotherapy at the University…

Shefali Christopher from Elon University is our guest for this months Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Christopher is an assistant professor in the department of physical therapy. She started treating runners 12 years ago because no one else wanted to deal with the triathletes and runners, and slowly built a caseload of predominantly endurance athletes. She has spoken at several local, regional and national conferences about treating the triathlete…

Aoife Burke from Dublin City University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Aoife is an assistant professor in the Athletic Training program in the School of Health and Human Performance. After completing her athletic therapy and training degree, she worked in a private musculoskeletal clinical practice, whilst also working with some elite teams within Ireland; such as Dublin GAA and some Irish international football teams. Aoife…

Isabel Sacco, PhD from University of São Paulo is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Sacco is an Associate Professor and vice-director of the Graduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences at the School of Medicine; 1B Research fellow of CNPq-Brazil (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development); and the head of the Laboratory of Biomechanics of Movement and Human Posture (LaBiMPH). Her main areas of research include…

Welcome to episode 64 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! On this month’s episode, we sit down with Richard Mayne (also known as the Moving Medic) to discuss the use of monitoring technology and injury incidence among recreational runners. Richard also discusses how the popular UK website, Parkrun, influenced his research. Dr. Mayne is a family medicine physician in Northern Ireland, with a specialist interest in lifestyle, sport and exercise medicine. He is passionate about...

Welcome to Episode 63 of The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! This month, we’re going international as we sit down with Evert Verhagen, Prof. Dr. from Amsterdam to discuss how recreational runners deal with injuries. His latest paper, “I JUST WANT TO RUN: How Recreational Runners Perceive and Deal with Injuries”, was published in the September 2021 issue of BMJ Open Sports Exercise Medicine. Dr. Verhagen is a human movement…

Welcome to episode 62 of The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! This month, Bryan and Jeremy sit down with Eric J Hegedus, PT, DPT, PhD, MHS from Tufts University to discuss returning to distance running after an injury. Info from this episode can help therapists better understand how to treat patients looking to return to competition. Dr. Hegedus is a Professor and founding program director for the Tufts Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program in Phoenix, AZ. He previously was the...

Welcome to episode 61 of The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! Today, we speak with Sarah Dillon of Dublin City University. Sarah is a Chartered Physiotherapist and PhD candidate in the School of Health and Human Performance. Her research, funded by the Insight SFI Research centre for Data Analytics centers around lower limb injuries among recreational runners. In this episode, we examine whether or not pre-existing injuries effects a runner’s overall performance. Bryan and Sarah review...

Dr. Warden is a Professor within the Departments of Physical Therapy, Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering; Associate Dean for Research within the IU School of Health and Human Sciences; and Director of the Musculoskeletal Function, Imaging and Tissue (MSK-FIT) Resource Core within the Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health. He has contributed over 140 publications and has a particular interest in the effects of physical activity on the skeleton. He has been...

Adam Tenforde, MD from Harvard Medical School is our guest for this episode of The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Tenforde is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and a sports medicine physician at the Spaulding National Running Center – one of the only centers in the United States exclusively dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of running-related injuries. Dr. Tenforde has the unique…

Welcome to Episode 58 of The Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! Nate Vannatta, DPT, SCS from the Department of Sports Medicine of Gundersen Health System in Wisconsin is our guest for this month's episode. Nate is a sports physical therapist and Associate Program Director for the Gundersen Medical Education’s Sports Physical Therapy Residency Program. He is also an adjunct graduate faculty member of the La Crosse Institute for Movement Science housed at the University of Wisconsin – La...

In this episode, we discuss Achilles Tendinopathy Rehabilitation with Karin Grävare Silbernagel PT, ATC, PhD from the University of Delaware. Dr. Silbernagel has been a practicing physical therapist for over 30 years, mainly in orthopedics and sports medicine and her expertise is in the clinical aspects of tendon injury. As the principal investigator of the Tendon Research Group at the University of Delaware, she is working to advance the understanding of tendon injuries and repair so that...

On this month's episode of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast, we sit down with Dr. David Opar to discuss Hamstring Strain Injuries. Dr. Opar is the Director of the Sports Performance, Recovery, Injury and New Technologies (SPRINT) Research Centre at Australian Catholic University. He has conducted extensive research into hamstring strain injuries with a particular focus on how best to identify individuals at risk of this injury and how rehabilitation practices can be improved. From...

In this episode of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast episode, we host a panel of experts from around the world in the second of a two-part series on the topic of running and pregnancy. For the last topic of the series, our panel is discussing Running Postpartum. This international panel includes Rita Deering, DPT, PhD, from Carroll University, Shefali M. Christopher, DPT, from Elon University, Tom Goom (@RunningPhysio) from The Physio Rooms in England, Grainne Donnelly...

In this episode of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast, we host a panel of experts from around the world in the first of a two-part series on the topic of running and pregnancy. In this episode, we discuss Running During Pregnancy and in part two we will discuss Running Postpartum. This international panel includes Rita Deering, DPT, PhD, from Carrol University, Shefali Christopher, DPT, SCS, LAT, from Elon University,…

Josh Goldman, MD from UCLA is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Goldman is a Health Science Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery. He cares for both Family Medicine and Sports Medicine patients of all ages, while supervising medical students, residents, and Sports Medicine fellows. Dr. Goldman is the team physician for the UCLA football, men's soccer, and women's water polo teams. He currently serves as the program director for...

Max Paquette, PhD from the University of Memphis is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Paquette is an associate professor in the College of Health Sciences, director of the Musculoskeletal Analysis Laboratory and biomechanist within the Human Performance Center. His research interests are largely focused on lower limb joint mechanics with regards to injury risk reduction and performance improvement in runners, with particular interest in the effects of different...

Welcome to episode 51 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! This month, we spoke with Tom Goom of The Physio Rooms in England. Tom graduated with BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy from Oxford Brookes University in 2002. He is Clinical Lead at The Physio Rooms, a keen runner, and creator of Running-Physio.com. Tom's work has gained a worldwide audience and been featured in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Runner’s World and Men's Running UK. He remains an active clinician and...

Adam Semciw, PT, PhD of La Trobe University, Australia, is our guest for this episode of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Semciw is a physiotherapist and Associate Professor of Allied Health (physiotherapy). He has 55 peer-reviewed publications (49 since 2015, Scopus 07/20). He currently holds a 5-year industry-funded conjoint research position to conduct consumer informed, clinically translatable research at a health service (Northern Health, Victoria, Australia). Dr...

Episode 49 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast is now available! This month, we speak with Geoff Burns, PhD of the Univesity of Michigan about Regulating Shoes for Road Running. Dr. Burns is a runner and sport science researcher, recently completing his PhD from Michigan’s School of Kinesiology. His research involved the development and application of methods to compare runners to simple biomechanical systems. His studies have explored mechanical patterns in high-performing...