Running clinic - What would you ask?

[Wahine]

Personally I would ask about how to deal with tight heel cords and what to do after a run when that happens. You might already do that but wanted to mention it.

This is something I usually talk about in an injury prevention talk. The talk I'm giving is part of a monthly series put on by our local running shop. Last month the speaker was another PT in town and he covered a lot of topics like stretching, stability exercises, dynamic warm-up... but he did so very superficially. There was very little that people at the clinic could walk away with and start using immediately to help their running. There were also a lot of questions about dynamic warm-up. That's my main reason for choosing this as my primary topic. Running form ties in nicely with that. I didn't actually plan on speaking about injury prevention beyond those categories. Mostly because it's a lot of stuff to try to get into one hour. But the shop changed the title of my talk (without my input) to include injury prevention. I would put dealing with tight heel cords after running in that group and that leads to a discussion of stretching and self treatment of trigger points which is another 1 hour discussion.

I will have a little talk about heel cords/calves and use it as a way to introduce stretching and trigger point work. Maybe I can use it as a teaser for another talk later.

Thanks for your feedback.