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Why jogging is a terrible way to test healing of a running injury

Update: 2025-03-13

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No matter what injury you have, it could be a stress fracture or it could be tendinitis or it could be a sprained ligament, but whatever you do you have to sure you don't get re-injured, because that could be brutally demoralizing!

Because most runners think jogging is a lot easier than “real running” you might presume it's a lot safer for you to just start jogging to test out your state of recovery.

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about why jogging is a terrible way to test the state of healing of a running injury.

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Why jogging is a terrible way to test healing of a running injury

Dr. Christopher Segler