Experiencing increasing calf pain with running can be an incredibly frustrating experience for your running patients, especially when it is severely limiting or stopping them from being able to run. You can have a lot of success in helping your runners overcome running related calf pain, and in episode 66 of the Physio Edge podcast, we give you practical strategies and exercises you can use in your treatment.

Tom Goom and David Pope helped you explain the causes of calf pain to your running patients, differential diagnosis and red flags, and what you need to assess in episode 64 and episode 65, and in Episode 66 you will explore:

How to strengthen the calf complex
Strengthening for local ankle and foot muscles
Benefits and how to incorporate strengthening for the kinetic chain
Incorporating neural mobility into your treatment
Adjusting and progressing training loads
The role of gait retraining in the treatment of calf pain

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066. How to treat calf pain in runners with Tom Goom

Physio Edge podcast with David Pope

066. How to treat calf pain in runners with Tom Goom