injury

Run derailed by cramps? Here’s what causes cramps and how you can prevent them on your next trail run.

Injury to the Achilles tendon can be long-lasting. Here's how to diagnose, treat, and prevent it.

For years, this elite runner, coach, and surgeon specializing in lower extremity injuries treated hundreds of runners. Until it was her turn to be sidelined.

Through all the heartbreak and disappointment, our love is worth it. It’s worth the black toenails and quasi-permanent sunburn, and it’s worth having geriatric ankle joints. Our love is worth the 4 a.m. wake-ups and finding a partially consumed GU in nearly every load of laundry.  It’s almost worth all the foam rolling. 

The diagnosis is tricky and can easily be confused with sciatica—and it's one of the most common running injuries.

Ever feel like you’re the only runner who’s always injured? You’re not alone.

Most of us have heard of the RICE method for easing injuries. But for soft tissue injury recovery, there’s a new acronym in town.

Running injuries suck. Wallowing and grieving is a completely logical response, but often there’s something more complex under the surface.

The biggest challenge of being injured can often be the mental and emotional impacts of being sidelined.

This often-overlooked cause of heel pain requires a different approach than true plantar fasciitis. Here’s how to test and treat it.

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4 Therapy experts share the exercises they find most important for injury prevention in runners.

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During a race in Norway, Hillary Allen fell from a ridge and nearly died. Now, she's recovering and looking toward the future.

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Nearly every injury starts as a minor concern. For many motivated trail runners, the most important workout is deciding not to run.