Runner Rehab
In Austin, Texas
Runner Rehabilitation
Over ten years ago, Pieter and Katie realized that few medical providers understood or knew how to treat runners. Injured runners are frequently told to simply stop running and rest. Knowing this was not the right answer for all running injuries and that rest alone does not fix the root cause of the problem or prevent them from reoccurring once running is resumed, Pieter and Katie were determined to solve the mystery of why a structure would become painful on one side of the body, but not on the other.
After all, the left leg takes just as many steps as the right. If running too much was truly the cause of their injury, why would only one leg or structure break down versus both? These were questions they were committed to answering. Austin is a distance-running mecca, and Pieter and Katie took on the challenge of learning how to diagnose movement impairments and identify which structure was causing their pain so they could help keep runners doing what they love the most: running.
Repeated Microtrauma vs. Macrotrauma
The majority of endurance athletes’ injuries are a result of repetitive microtrauma vs. macro trauma. This is what makes them so difficult to solve and correct. Traditional medical providers depend on imaging to diagnose the cause of someone’s pain, but in the case of repetitive microtrauma, imaging can be of little use. If there is no broken bone, swelling, bruising, or specific incident that occurred to cause the injury, traditional orthopedic exams can be of little use. It is understanding how the body moves, watching the patient, assessing their strength, and identifying the structure that is the cause of pain that is necessary to truly solve the root cause of their problem. This is what the clinicians at Mondo thrive in doing.
At Mondo, we make it our mission to identify the structure at fault and determine how to modify our endurance athlete’s training in order to keep them as active as possible while addressing the problem.