Runners’ Injuries…when doctors have no answers…how to get your running back
I know what it’s like to lose your running…. Back when I was 37 years old and used to running 70, 80 and even 90+ miles a week for 20 years I was at a point when I wondered if I’d ever run again…
I had what seemed like a simple strain injury. A calf spasm that wouldn’t let me run more than 5 minutes before it would seize up.
I was already a physical therapist and had 5 PT’s working for me in San Diego, Mission Hills Physical Therapy. I was seeing advanced therapists and doctors and even had tried 3 different pairs of orthotics. And yet nothing was working…
I did find my way out…
I found my way to an Integrative Manual Physical Therapist in Los Angeles and she told me my body was protecting some arteries and that’s why my calf muscles kept spasming. The problems was not in my calf…it wasn’t even in my leg or back….
The 1° root cause was the arteries around my heart, the aorta. What? How could that be? And how did she know this? And how could she fix this?
Well she did know how to find and fix it up….
She used very gentle but powerful IMT techniques to work on my diaphragms and my aorta and superior vena cava and inferior vena cava veins. She did what’s called the DOM (disruption of membrane) technique to “fix up” the issue in the blood vessels.
And here’s the key.
I tested it 2 days later and ran 30 minutes without pain or spasm and the problem never came back.
Why am I writing this now?
After running my easy long run 90 minutes on the most beautiful trails up by my home in Fairhaven, WA this Sunday morning with my friends…
I am grateful…
Grateful for my running…
for my life up here next to the most beautiful trails on the planet.
No joke, this place is a runner’s dream come true.
And I want runners to know that there is a way to heal,
to “fix up” your running injuries,
even if you’ve seen many other doctors and therapists and nothing has worked so far….
The key is to find the 1° root cause and correct it, “fix it up”….
You can heal, you can get your running back, you can do what you are here to do on this planet…
For life-long runners, running is life.
Sure there’s “more important things” in life. But if you’re a runner you know what I mean.
Running is life…
If you are a runner, a coach, a running store owner or employee, a parent of a runner…
I want you to know that you can get your running back. You can heal and run again…
I have a wonderful Beyond Limits Physical Therapy clinic in Fairhaven (Bellingham) WA right by the amazing SouthBay and Inter-Urban trails. And every Thursday we do a FREE Runners Injury Healing Clinic where I evaluate and do short targeted treatments and give runners my plan for their healing….
We’ve seen student athlete runners who had lost entire track seasons even though they had been getting high quality physical therapy for months….
but still not being able to run… in spite of this…
Some of our recent successes:
We’ve seen a runner with a hip injury recover..
She had been unable to run for more than 1 minute before having severe hip pain and she had been in traditional physical therapy for months and yet not having results…
With 2 sessions she was back to running pain-free. The key is finding the 1° root cause and “fixing it up”.
We saw a runner who had missed an entire year with a persistent knee injury get back to pain-free running (3 sessions) and a 30+ year old runner get over persistent achilles tendonitis pain and start running distance and speed pain-free again.
Here’s the thing…
If doctors have no answers for you, give me a call or an email and let’s see what the 1° root cause is for you and your plan to “fix it up”…
Run Runners!
And if you’re a coach or a running store owner or employee who sees a lot of runners dealing with pains which are slowing them down or stopping them from running come by and I can show you simple and powerful techniques for healing and running form. You can tell your athletes there is a way to heal.k…
Here’s my contact info.
email: Ralph@RalphHavens.com
Our Phone Number 360.599.2217
And information about our clinic and the FREE Thursday Runners Clinics RSVP at Ralph@RalphHavens.com or 360.599.2217
6 pm Thursdays at our office in Fairhaven.
https://ralphhavens.com/Beyond Limits Physical Therapy Bellingham, WA
1134 – 10th street, Bellingham, WA 98225
Please share this message of hope because getting you an heal and run again.
Ralph Havens PT IMTC
certified Integrative Manual Therapist
owner of Beyond Limits Physical Therapy
Fairhaven, WA
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