Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast

Welcome to episode 51 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast! This month, we spoke with Tom Goom of The Physio Rooms in England. Tom graduated with BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy from Oxford Brookes University in 2002. He is Clinical Lead at The Physio Rooms, a keen runner, and creator of Running-Physio.com. Tom’s work has gained a worldwide audience and been featured in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Runner’s…

Adam Semciw, PT, PhD of La Trobe University, Australia, is our guest for this episode of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Semciw is a physiotherapist and Associate Professor of Allied Health (physiotherapy). He has 55 peer-reviewed publications (49 since 2015, Scopus 07/20). He currently holds a 5-year industry-funded conjoint research position to conduct consumer informed, clinically translatable research at a health service (Northern Health, Victoria, Australia). Dr Semciw’s…

Episode 49 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast is now available! This month, we speak with Geoff Burns, PhD of the Univesity of Michigan about Regulating Shoes for Road Running. Dr. Burns is a runner and sport science researcher, recently completing his PhD from Michigan’s School of Kinesiology. His research involved the development and application of methods to compare runners to simple biomechanical systems. His studies have explored mechanical…

Brian Krabak, MD, MBA, FACSM of the University of Washington is our guest for this episode of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Krabak is a Clinical Professor at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Sports Medicine. He is an internationally recognized expert in sports medicine, providing sports medicine care and lecturing throughout the world. His sports medicine experiences have included the Olympics (2012 US Olympic Marathon Trials,…

Laurent Malisoux, PhD of the Luxembourg Institute of Health is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Malisoux is the Leader of the Physical Activity, Sport & Health research group with expertise in sports injury prevention, running biomechanics, physical activity assessment, and exercise physiology. He completed his PhD in 2006 at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), focusing on the impact of training and unloading on contractile…

Geoff Burns, PhD of the Univesity of Michigan is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Burns is a runner and sport science researcher, recently completing his PhD from Michigan’s School of Kinesiology. His research involved the development and application of methods to compare runners to simple biomechanical systems. His studies have explored mechanical patterns in high-performing individuals, ranging from sub-four minute milers to ultra-marathoners. Geoff received…

Allison Gruber, PhD, FACSM and John Davis are our guests for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Gruber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Indiana University in Bloomington and is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. Dr. Gruber’s research focuses on the mechanics of gait, with a particular focus on running and the mechanisms for running injury development. She has incorporated mobile…

Thierry Franke, PT of Utrecht University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Thierry specializes in orthopedic rehabilitation, specifically shoulder and ACL rehabilitation. During the final year of his masters, he performed an observational cohort study including nearly 600 half and full marathon runners participating in the Utrecht Marathon together with assistant professor Bionka Huisstede PhD PT and professor Frank Backx MD PhD at the Department of…

Gary Helton, PT, DSc and Don Goss, PT, PhD of the US Army are our guests for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Helton has been an Army physical therapist for 9 years and is board certified in sports and orthopedics. His research interests include injury prevention, particularly within the military initial entry training population. He currently practices in Washington state at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Dr. Don Goss has…

Brett Toresdahl, MD of the Hospital for Special Surgery is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Toresdahl is board certified in family medicine and has a certificate of added qualification in sports medicine. He is a Team Physician for US Biathlon and Rugby United New York as well as an Orthopedic Consultant for UFC and on the medical staff for Invesco Series QQQ Tennis. He previously…

Karsten Hollander, MD, PhD of the University of Hamburg is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Hollander is an assistant professor specializing in sports medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation. He served as the team physician for the German cross-country skiing national team and on the medical advisory board of the German Athletic Association (middle and long-distance running). He completed his PhD in biomechanics studying the…

Saša Čigoja of the University of Calgary is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Saša is a Kinesiology PhD student at the Human Performance Laboratory. Under the supervision of Dr. Benno Nigg, he studies the effects of increased longitudinal midsole bending stiffness of sport shoes on running mechanics. His PhD work focuses on how increased midsole bending stiffness can be used to redistribute lower limb joint work…

Evan O. Nelson, PT, DPT, PhD of University of Wisconsin-Madison is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Nelson is an assistant professor in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. His research involves evaluating the utility of patient-reported outcome measures for running-related injuries. His practice experience spans multiple sports and orthopedic clinical settings including a current position at…

Nicholas Murray, PhD of East Carolina University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Murray is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and director of the Visual Motor Lab. Dr. Murray’s research involves visual-motor control, brain activity, and the influence of cognitive effort within motor control and learning. His primary goal is to determine antecedents and consequences of an individual’s ability to function in dynamic…

Steven Sashen is a serial entrepreneur who has never had a job, a former professional stand-up comic and award-winning screenwriter, and a competitive sprinter — one of the fastest men over 55 in the country. He and his wife, Lena Phoenix, co-founded the footwear company Xero Shoes, creating “a MOVEMENT movement” which has helped hundreds of thousands of people Live Life Feet First with happy, healthy, strong feet in addictively…

Christine Pollard, PT, PhD of Oregon State University-Cascades in Bend, Oregon is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Pollard is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology and the Director of the Force Lab which is a biomechanics laboratory housed within a large Orthopedic Sports Medicine Center in Bend. Dr. Pollard’s research is dedicated to improving the scientific understanding of lower extremity injuries and advancing injury-prevention and rehabilitation…

Karl Zelik, PhD and Emily Matijevich of Vanderbilt University are our guests for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Zelik is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and co-directs the Center for Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology (CREATE). CREATE aims to improve health, mobility, and independence for individuals with disabilities, and to enhance human capabilities beyond biological limits, by engineering, measuring, optimizing and understanding technologies that physically augment human…

Mitchell J. Rauh, PT, PhD, MPH, FACSM of San Diego State University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Rauh is a Professor and the Founding Program Director for the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program. He is the Director of the San Diego State University Running and Sports Injury Prevention Research laboratory, and a Co-Principal Investigator of Project SPIRIT (Sports Injury Research In Teens), a multi-funded…

Stephen Messier, PhD of Wake Forest University of the University of Washington is our guest for episode 33 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podast. Dr. Messier is Professor and Director of the J.B. Snow Biomechanics Laboratory in the Department of Health and Exercise Science, and teaches biomechanics and human gross anatomy at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Dr. Messier has 28 years of clinical trial experience concerning osteoarthritis (OA)…

Cristine Agresta, MPT, PhD of the University of Washington is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podast. Dr. Agresta is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Physical Therapy in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. She is interested in identifying factors that influence physical resilience, functionality, and durability in athletes. Her research focuses on utilizing wearables to improve clinical assessment and monitoring techniques in real-world settings.