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Hello there and welcome to RunPod, where for the next few, I am joined for a special bonus series by Paul

Holbro who is basically top video. He knows everything there is to know about injuries and especially

when it comes to runners because he has treated a vast amount of them. Paul, it's nice to have you

back and we're going to chat about some injuries and we were going, which one should we start with? And well, one that is really common, runners knee. Is that what

it's called? Is that just knee injury, knee pain because of running? Yeah, that's right. And out of that

jumps probably two key knee injuries, which is ITB friction syndrome and a tellefemoral pain syndrome. But we're slightly

anoraki as physios. We have these strange names for things. But yeah, runners knee would cover

both of those and we can sort of split it up and talk about them independently and together.

How do you get that? Is it, I always go, oh, is it mad shoes? I mean, how do you get it? How does it happen that you get a sore knee from running? Because also, it's the first thing non-runers say, you're going to ruin your knees, you're just going to ruin your knees by running. Yeah, there's all sorts of analogies we could use. Running is not bad for your knees. Full stop, mic drop, done. Oh my God, I'm so glad you've said that.

Let's put that one to bed. But if you have some sort of biomechanical difference, slight

insufficiency somewhere, then your knee, because it's between the highly mobile foot and ankle

and the incredibly complex hip,

is a joint out there on its own, on a limb, you might say, which needs to be controlled between the foot and ankle and the hip.

And it's quite a simple joint. I mean, it's supposed to bend and extend, like flex and extend.

It literally is a hinge joint. And yet there's's supposed to bend and extend, like flex and extend. It literally is a hinge

joint. And yet there's an enormous amount of competing movements taking place around the knee.

So if you are, you know, a quarter of a millimeter out with part of your anatomy and physiology,

then yes, running by putting repeated strain through, we'll find that.

So it's not that running is bad for your knees,

but if there's something bad about your knee, running will find it.

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