Our Specialty · Running Injuries

Running Injuries & Return-to-Running Programs

Most running injuries aren't just overuse — they're a compensation pattern that mileage eventually exposes.

Running injuries are a specialty here, built on 13 years of clinical experience and a lot of miles run personally. The common thread across most running injuries we see — IT band syndrome, runner's knee, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinopathy, chronic hamstring or groin tightness, and shin splints — is that they're rarely random. They're usually the point where an existing movement asymmetry finally gets exposed by enough mileage.

Our Approach

Evaluation starts with watching you run and assessing your movement pattern, not just examining the injured area in isolation. From there, treatment combines dry needling, fascial manipulation, and Postural Restoration® (PRI) movement retraining to correct the pattern driving the injury — not just calm down the symptom.

Return-to-Running Programs

Getting back to running after an injury needs structure: a gradual, individualized mileage progression paired with the movement correction work that keeps the injury from simply resurfacing at a higher mileage. This is built around your training goals, not a generic couch-to-5k timeline.

Want to Go Deeper?

For runner-specific tips, exercises, and virtual consults for runners outside the Harrisonburg area, visit The Runner's Doc — our dedicated running resource.