Bone stress injuries in runners

Bone stress injuries such as Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (shin splints) are common in runners, basketball players and other athletes.

In this webinar with Tom Goom, you will gain a lot of practical information on how you can help treat your patients with bone stress injuries.

Tom will help you discover:

- Bone stress injury development

- Diagnosis of bone stress injury

- Tests and investigations

- High vs low risk stress fractures

- Management of Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome in runners

- Exercise selection with bone stress injury

- Exercise progression

- Whether to use orthotics

- Running gait assessment

- Running re-education

- High risk stress fractures including femoral neck

- Case study - high risk stress fracture

- Addressing psychosocial factors in bone stress injury

Part 1 

• Introduction

• Bone stress development

• Bone stress continuum

• Common symptoms of the stages of bone stress

• Bone load and development of stress injuries

Part 2 

• Influences on bone load capacity

• Diagnosis of bone stress injury - subjective signs

• Diagnosis of bone stress injury - objective tests

• Spotting a stress fracture

Part 3 

• Bone stress injuries in runners - low and high risk

• Compression vs tension bone stress injuries

• Further investigations

• Suspicion of stress fracture

• Finding the balance of training load

Part 4 

• Medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS)

• MTSS Risk factors in runners

• Objective assessment of MTSS

• Management of MTSS

• Improving limb load capacity

• Exercise selection

Part 5 

• Orthoses?

• Graded return to impact

• Athlete monitoring

• MTSS Gait reeducation

Part 6

• Running analysis

• Altering step rate and stride length

Part 7

• Link between step rate and shin pain

• Decreasing impact forces

• Evidence on long term gait changes

• High risk stress fracture

• Case study of high risk stress fracture

Part 8

• High risk stress fracture case study continued

• Management of high risk stress fracture

• XR and MRI

• Early rehabilitation

• Mid stage rehabilitation

Part 9

• Return to running

• Graded running return

• Athlete monitoring

• Addressing psychosocial factors

Part 10

• Positive psychosocial factors and sports injury

• Integrated team approach

• Summary